On Thu, 30 Apr 2009 00:19:01 -0700, g -rains wrote:

Thanks so much Norman, I finally have aoutlook Express back as default as per
your instructions. I didn't have to go through the bother of uninstalling
Windows Live Hotmail.

You can't "uninstall" Windows Live Hotmail; it is not an installable
application. Windows Live Hotmail is an online service. Windows Live Mail is
the client application. So states in the program list, and the startup
splash screen.

Windows Live Mail and MS Outlook Express have been happily co-existing on my
computer since the first beta version, when it was called, "Windows Live
Mail desktop". Just had to restore the MSOE shortcuts. I don't have either
MSOE, or WLM, as my system default mailer.

Point to keep in mind: Your active browser will invoke your default mailer
for those 'mailto:' links, and your active mailer will invoke your default
browser for URL links in email. In my case, any browser invokes Pegasus Mail
for 'mailto:', and any mailer (MSOE, WLM, Mozilla Thunderbird) invokes Opera
to display links. If that ever changes, first place to go is "Set Program
Access and Defaults", and make the appropriate changes. And, if an installed
application removes shortcut access, you will have to recreate those (as I
did for MSOE). Windows Live Mail also took over one file association, .eml.
I had to re-register the MSOE .dlls to restore those associations.

Again, thanks to Microsoft's less than stellar naming process, people often
confuse their products and online services.

Products:

MS Outlook (full featured PIM and mailer; part of the Office suite).
MS Outlook Express (light mailer and news client; part of MS Internet
Explorer 6, and earlier).
Windows Mail (replacement for MSOE in Windows Vista, only)
Windows Live Mail (replacement for MSOE; requires either Windows XP, or
Windows Vista).

Online Service:

Windows Live Hotmail (completely independent from any desktop application;
can be accessed using either an email client, or a web browser).

--
Norman
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