"David Mayerovitch" wrote in message
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I'm running Outlook 2003 on Windows XP Home, SP2.

I use Outlook Express 6.0 as my mail program and in the OE options I set
it to be the default mail handler. It works correctly, but only for a
time.

Every few days I discover, after clicking on a mailto link, that it is the
Outlook mail program that opens instead of Outlook Express. When I check
the OE options I find that OE is no longer the default mail handler.

I am not doing anything (as far as I know) to cause Outlook to take over
as default mail handler. Does anyone know why Outlook might be stealing
default-mail-handler status, and what can be done to fix this permanently?

Thanks.

David





When you download office Updates, Outlook takes over.
Tell me, WHY are you using OE for mail when you have Outlook?