How do I turn off MS Exchange

[Guest]

Whenever I open an email, I see that the attachment (if there is one) is
opened by Exchange and I can't get Outlook 2003 to stop using Exchange to
open said attachments. I don't have Exchange installed on my system (at
least, on purpose) and would like to open attachments normally. Config upon
request.

 

[Pat Willener]

Sorry, can you make that a little bit more clear? What kind of account,
if not Exchange? What exact error message are you getting?

 

[Gordon]

Whenever I open an email, I see that the attachment (if there is
one) is opened by Exchange and I can't get Outlook 2003 to stop using
Exchange to open said attachments. I don't have Exchange installed on
my system (at least, on purpose) and would like to open attachments
normally. Config upon request.

Isn't this a repreat posting? Exchange is a MAIL SERVER, it does NOT "open
attachments".

 

[Guest]

As for repeat posting, yes. I never got a satisfactory answer. For some
reason, Exchange is what pops up when I click on an attachment and Exchange
is what my computer uses to view attachments. How do I inform my computer to
stop using Exchange? It's irritating, to say ythe least and makes my computer
drag (occaisionally hang)

 

[Guest]

Sometimes when I click on an attachment, Exchange pops up and then when I
click on the attachment again (because Exchange didn't open it) I get an
error message: the set of folders could not bo opened. And: the sorce
application could not be startted. Both of these messages are inside a popup
with the header: Microsoft Exchange. So please don't tell me I don't have
Exchange on my machine.

 

[Gordon]

As for repeat posting, yes. I never got a satisfactory answer. For
some reason, Exchange is what pops up when I click on an attachment
and Exchange is what my computer uses to view attachments. How do I
inform my computer to stop using Exchange? It's irritating, to say
ythe least and makes my computer drag (occaisionally hang)

then I suggest you get in touch with your IT dept as to what exactly is
happening. As stated MANY times in answer to your previous posts, MS
Exchange is a MAIL SERVER and does NOT "open Attachments". How can it? It
has NO ability to "open attachments". All it does is act like a telephone
exchange for emails.
The only other option is that you actually have an application called
"exchange" on your machine which is some sort of word processor/spreadsheet
application. I've never heard of anyhing called "Exchange" other than
Microsoft Exchange.

 

[Pat Willener]

I think this is a good time to ask you for your system specifications.
What version of Windows; what version of Outlook.

I seem to remember that a VERY long time ago, what is now Outlook
Express was called Microsoft Exchange - on Windows 95? Could this be
the case?

 

[Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]]

No, that was the old Exchange client that came with Windows messaging and
superceded Microsoft Mail. Outlook Express was formerly Microsoft Internet
Mail and News. It was never Outlook or Exchange.

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After furious head scratching, Pat Willener asked:

| I think this is a good time to ask you for your system specifications.
| What version of Windows; what version of Outlook.
|
| I seem to remember that a VERY long time ago, what is now Outlook
| Express was called Microsoft Exchange - on Windows 95? Could this be
| the case?
|
| Jester9457 wrote:
|| Sometimes when I click on an attachment, Exchange pops up and then
|| when I click on the attachment again (because Exchange didn't open
|| it) I get an error message: the set of folders could not bo opened.
|| And: the sorce application could not be startted. Both of these
|| messages are inside a popup with the header: Microsoft Exchange. So
|| please don't tell me I don't have Exchange on my machine.
||
|| "Pat Willener" wrote:
||
||| Sorry, can you make that a little bit more clear? What kind of
||| account, if not Exchange? What exact error message are you getting?
|||
||| Jester9457 wrote:
|||| Whenever I open an email, I see that the attachment (if there is
|||| one) is opened by Exchange and I can't get Outlook 2003 to stop
|||| using Exchange to open said attachments. I don't have Exchange
|||| installed on my system (at least, on purpose) and would like to
|||| open attachments normally. Config upon request.

 

[Gordon]

I think this is a good time to ask you for your system specifications.
What version of Windows; what version of Outlook.

I seem to remember that a VERY long time ago, what is now Outlook
Express was called Microsoft Exchange - on Windows 95? Could this be
the case?

Yes there was, but it STILL won't open an attachment! How could it? it was a
MAIL program, not a word processor or spreadsheet app!
This has all been talked about at great length before. The OP just won't
accept that a MAIL app, whether client or server, cannot open an attachment.