Selecting the required email program

[Lindsay Cripps]

In IE6 under Internet options/ programs/E-mail there is no option to select
Outlook Express to handle mail. Only Outlook 2002 is available.
Outlook Express is set as the default.
This is on a laptop running windows xp pro.

The desktop running 98SE IE6 and Outlook 2002 shows both Outlook and Outlook
Express as options.

The main problem is on the laptop selecting Outlook opens the wrong program
when clicking a web link.

Anyone have a solution for this? Thanks in advance.

Lindsay

 

[Frank Saunders, MS-MVP]

In IE6 under Internet options/ programs/E-mail there is no option to
select Outlook Express to handle mail. Only Outlook 2002 is available.
Outlook Express is set as the default.
This is on a laptop running windows xp pro.

The desktop running 98SE IE6 and Outlook 2002 shows both Outlook and
Outlook Express as options.

The main problem is on the laptop selecting Outlook opens the wrong
program when clicking a web link.

Anyone have a solution for this? Thanks in advance.

Lindsay

From http://www.fjsmjs.com/OE/defaultl.htm

Go to Start | Run and type this command, with the double quotes and spaces:

"C:\Program Files\Outlook Express\msimn.exe" /reg

and then make sure that OE is selected as the default mail program in both
IE and OE.

If that isn't enough, see this article:
"Send To" and E-mail Links Do Not Work Using Outlook Express as Default:
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=306098

You might also want to try this:

Restores OE to the E-mail clients list in Internet Options
http://www.dougknox.com/xp/scripts_desc/oe_client.htm

To set Outlook 98, 2000 or 2002(XP) as the default mail client,- Go to
Start, Run - Type in the following with quotation marks and press ok
"C:\program files\microsoft office\office\outlook.exe" /checkclient
For more information on Outlook see:
http://www.slipstick.com/config/defaultmailer.htm