Hi, I have OE as my default mail client but when I right click/send to/mail
recipient it opens in Outlook instead. This is very annoying as my address
book is not in Outlook. How can I make it open OE?

If you have Outlook installed, whenever you get an Outlook update, it will
change the default e-mail client from OE to Outlook. This has been a problem
for awhile now, and I have seen no hurry up to fix it on MS's part.

As of now, this is all you can do:
http://www.oehelp.com/OETips.aspx#13
--
Bruce Hagen
MS-MVP Outlook Express
~IB-CA~

"maeve" wrote in message
...
Hi, I have OE as my default mail client but when I right click/send
to/mail recipient it opens in Outlook instead. This is very annoying as
my address book is not in Outlook. How can I make it open OE?

Thanks, now I know the problem is having outlook installed, I will uninstall
it if I can or at least I will know why this happens! Thanks again.


"Bruce Hagen" wrote in message
...
If you have Outlook installed, whenever you get an Outlook update, it will
change the default e-mail client from OE to Outlook. This has been a
problem for awhile now, and I have seen no hurry up to fix it on MS's
part.

As of now, this is all you can do:
http://www.oehelp.com/OETips.aspx#13
--
Bruce Hagen
MS-MVP Outlook Express
~IB-CA~

"maeve" wrote in message
...
Hi, I have OE as my default mail client but when I right click/send
to/mail recipient it opens in Outlook instead. This is very annoying as
my address book is not in Outlook. How can I make it open OE?

Hi,

Thanks for posting here,

From your log I understand your issue is that you have set Outlook Express
as your default mail application, however, when you right click a file and
send to mail receipt, Outlook is still your default email application.

I suggest we cover the following steps to set the Outlook Express as the
default mail application for this issue first.

1. Select Start - Run.
2. Input "regedit" (without quotation marks) in the Open box and click OK.
3. Please locate the following key:

HKEY_LOCAL _MACHINE\Software\Clients\Mail

4. Double click the (Default) value in the right pane.
5. Please make sure "Outlook Express" is input in the "Value data" box and
click OK.
6. Close Registry Editor and restart computer and then test whether Outlook
is set as the default mail client.

Please restart the computer and test the issue again.

Hope the information helps. Have a good day!

Thanks & Regards,

Sally Qiu, MCSE 2003
Microsoft Online Partner Support

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Hi, I have OE as my default mail client but when I right click/send
to/mail
recipient it opens in Outlook instead. This is very annoying as my
address
book is not in Outlook. How can I make it open OE?

"maeve" wrote in message
...
Hi, I have OE as my default mail client but when I right click/send
to/mail recipient it opens in Outlook instead. This is very annoying as
my address book is not in Outlook. How can I make it open OE?


Set OE to be the default email at Control Panel | Add or Remove Programs |
Set Program Access and Defaults.

If Outlook is installed it will be reset to the default every time it
updates. It doesn't seem to occur to the Outlook Team that some people may
not want it to do that.

--
Frank Saunders, MS-MVP OE/WM
http://www.fjsmjs.com
Answer in newsgroup. Don't send mail.