ok i guess this one should work
- start-run-regedit
- browse to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Clients\Mail\Microsoft Outlook
right click on Microsoft Outlook and export to a desktop as backup.
now right click on the same key and delete it.
goto internet properties and select the option outlook express and you
must also notice that outlook would no longer show as a Email in the
programs tab.
hope this works...


Vijay


Frank D. Nicodem, Jr. wrote:
"Vijay" wrote in message
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try this
start-run-regedit
browse to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Clients\Mail\Microsoft Outlook
towards right double click DLLPath and paste the below
"%ProgramFiles%\Outlook Express\msoe.dll"
Please let me know if it worked.

Thank you, Vijay. Here's what happened when I tried that.

First, I made the change to the Registry. Then I made sure that Outlook
Express was set to be my default E-mail client. (I did this in the Internet
Options Control Panel applet -- under the Programs tab.)

Then I started up Outlook. Nothing else -- just started it up, and
immediately closed it. When I went back to the Internet Options window, the
default E-mail client had been *changed* to Microsoft Outlook once again!!
But when I went back into the Registry, to where I had made your suggested
change, it still showed the change -- i.e., it still pointed to msoe.dll,
not mapi32.dll. (However, there is another key at that same node of the
Registry, called DLLPathEx. It still pointed to the mapi32.dll file -- but
a different copy of the file. Instead of being in "%ProgramFiles" -- i.e.,
C:\Program Files -- it's pointing to C:\Program Files\Common
Files\SYSTEM\MSMAPI\1033\msmapi32.dll. I have not changed that entry, since
you didn't mention it.)

So something in Outlook is *still* resetting the default E-mail client. And
all I have to do is *open* Outlook -- nothing more.

I'm stumped... Any other suggestions?
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Frank D. Nicodem, Jr.