Windows Mail the ONLY default newsreader c\alled by Outlook

[Gordon]

Vista Home Premium SP1, Outlook 2007.
The Go-News menu function in Outlook 2007 on Vista Home Premium SP1 will NOT
call any other newsreader other than Windows Mail, even when the other news
reader is set as default.(Ie it opens when external news links are
clicked...)
This is in direct contradiction to Outlook 2007 on XP.
Does anyone know of a registry hack to allow O2007 to call something other
than Windows Mail?

 

[Nonny]

Vista Home Premium SP1, Outlook 2007.
The Go-News menu function in Outlook 2007 on Vista Home Premium SP1 will NOT
call any other newsreader other than Windows Mail, even when the other news
reader is set as default.(Ie it opens when external news links are
clicked...)
This is in direct contradiction to Outlook 2007 on XP.
Does anyone know of a registry hack to allow O2007 to call something other
than Windows Mail?

If you don't have a third-party newsreader - and have it established
as your default newsreader - Windows Mail is the only possible choice.

Outlook isn't a newsreader.

 

[VanguardLH]

Vista Home Premium SP1, Outlook 2007.
The Go-News menu function in Outlook 2007 on Vista Home Premium SP1 will NOT
call any other newsreader other than Windows Mail, even when the other news
reader is set as default.(Ie it opens when external news links are
clicked...)
This is in direct contradiction to Outlook 2007 on XP.
Does anyone know of a registry hack to allow O2007 to call something other
than Windows Mail?

So what is specified as the client program for newsgroups in Internet
Options -> Programs?

Outlook doesn't support NNTP (network news transfer protcol). It calls
whatever is designated as the current default NNTP client to handle
newsgroups. So check what is currently designated as the default NNTP
client (by Windows, not by some option within a program, because Outlook
doesn't know about the program, it only knows what Windows was told).

 

[Gordon]

If you don't have a third-party newsreader - and have it established
as your default newsreader - Windows Mail is the only possible choice.

Outlook isn't a newsreader.

Read my post. I HAVE a third-party newsreader application - it IS set as
default, and yes I know that Outlook doesn't do news. The Go-News menu item
is supposed to call the default newsreader - in XP it does. In Vista,
although the third-party newsreader (Thunderbird actually) is set as default
news reader the Go-news item in Outlook under Vista will NOT call anything
except Windows Mail, whether that is set as default or not.

 

[Gordon]

So what is specified as the client program for newsgroups in Internet
Options -> Programs?

Vista doesn't work that way - it doesn't show default applications. However,
as I said in my OP, the third-party newsreader (Thunderbird IS set as
default, and news links from other applications open in TBird NOT Windows
Mail)

Outlook doesn't support NNTP (network news transfer protcol). It calls
whatever is designated as the current default NNTP client to handle
newsgroups. So check what is currently designated as the default NNTP
client (by Windows, not by some option within a program, because Outlook
doesn't know about the program, it only knows what Windows was told).

I *KNOW* Outlook doesn't do NNTP. Read my OP.

 

[Roady [MVP]]

Don't rely on that option. You can easily create your own button in Outlook
which points to any application or file that you want.
See http://www.howto-outlook.com/howto/customizetoolbar.htm

 

[Nonny]

Why not just add a short-cut to your client in the QuickLaunch
Toolbar?

It is simple enough to put one there.

I said that quite some time ago.

By the way, Thunderbird is NOT a "news client". It is a COMBINED
E-mail/Usenet Client.

Thank you.

 

[Gordon]

Don't rely on that option. You can easily create your own button in
Outlook which points to any application or file that you want.
See http://www.howto-outlook.com/howto/customizetoolbar.htm

Thanks for that - I think that needs to be amended for Outlook 2007 - the
procedure is not quite as simple as that!

 

[Roady [MVP]]

At what point? The procedure is the same as long as you are in the main
Outlook window.

 

[Gordon]

At what point? The procedure is the same as long as you are in the main
Outlook window.

No it's not. In Outlook 2007 (on Vista) you can add the Icon to a toolbar,
but then you cannot right-click on it to choose the Hyperlink option.
You need to do the following:
After adding the Icon to whichever menubar you want, in the Customize box on
the "Commands" tab, you have to click on the "Rearrange Commands" button.
You then choose the menubar where you added the icon from the drop-down box,
click on the command you added in the left-hand pane, then click on the
"modify selection" button on the right, where you can add the hyperlink.

 

[Steve Cochran]

The settings in the registry are located here:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Clients\News

You can play with those to see if that will affect Outlook's behavior.

Outlook may ignore those settings though.

steve

 

[Steve Cochran]

I don't know how one can "hardwire" software. The settings may not be
configurable, but its not hard wired in the computer.

steve

 

[Gordon]

You're saying that the "Tools -> Internet Options" menu isn't available
in IE or the Internet Option applet isn't available in the Control Panel
(when shown in classic mode instead of that categorized mode) in Windows
Vista?

I'm not saying either - the Internet Options-Programs tab in IE7 in Vista is
totally different to that in XP. It does NOT show a list of "default
programs". It allows you to choose programs as the default for certain
tasks, but does NOT show a list of what you have chosen.

Excuuuuse me. In your original post, you start out by talking about
using the Go -> News menu in Outlook. Well, the only ones using that
indirect method to get at the NNTP client are boobs and noobs that don't
realize that Outlook doesn't do NNTP. There is no advantage to starting
Outlook to then go clicking through menus in Outlook to start up a
separate NNTP client than to more easily just click on a button in the
QuickLaunch or other toolbar in the Windows taskbar to start up the NNTP
client directly.

Well excuuuuse me - that is CRAP. All the Go-News menu item does is OPEN A
NEWS READER. What is your problem with that? Its NO different from doing
Start-All Programs-Newsreader. Many many people use it.

 

[VanguardLH]

Well excuuuuse me - that is CRAP. All the Go-News menu item does is OPEN A
NEWS READER. What is your problem with that? Its NO different from doing
Start-All Programs-Newsreader. Many many people use it.

After you load Outlook. After you navigate the menus. Then you start
the NNTP client. Uh huh, easier, sure.

 

[Roady [MVP]]

There is no change in behavior like that. Note that you must right click on
the icon in the menu bar and not in the Customize dialog. Of course, the
Customize dialog box must still be opened.

 

[Gordon]

Of course, the Customize dialog box must still be opened.

Right. That's the bit that is not explicit on the web page....

 

[Roady [MVP]]

Yes it is;
Step 1: Place your Toolbar in edit-mode with a link to explain Edit mode if
you skipped part of the article.
It is not telling you to close edit mode until step 6.