Thanks. I did those things: ensured OE was default which it was. I removed OL
anyway but none of this made any difference. I've really stuffed something
up...without seemingly even trying!

"PA Bear" wrote:

Installing OL updates changes the default mail handler from OE to OL
http://www.oehelp.com/OETips.aspx#13

DefaultMail v2.1
http://windowsxp.mvps.org/defaultmail.htm

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~Robear Dyer (PA Bear)
MS MVP-Windows (IE/OE, Shell/User, Security), Aumha.org VSOP, DTS-L.org

Michele-Queensland wrote:
Seems a cooincidence since I installed the last few security updates and
so forth via Microsoft (two days ago).....I have not only lost all my
contacts but Outlook Express will not let me "Create New Email" or
"Reply" and will not add new contacts when I try to do so from email
received. I've read technical stuff across the Microsoft website but
this only confuses moir! I've uninstalled SP 2, then taken the tick out
of Outlook Express to uninstall it, restarted my computer, reinstalled
Outlook Express but nothing. I am going insane and don't understand pages
of info about registry this and that, I just need to have Outlook Express
working again. Could anybody help at all please?