default mail handler

I installed MS Office 2003 and now when I press the Email button on my keyboard Outlook opens instead of Windows Mail. Outlook setting is not to make it the default mail handler. In Windows Mail the make default buttons are grayed out, I can't change it to make Windows Mail the default mail handler.
John

Try this and see if it works for you. Click WinKey+R to open the Run line and type: winmail /reg Note the space between the ending of winmail and the /reg
Then open Outlook Express and see if it's now listed as your default Mail and News handler. -- Jim Pickering, MVP-Outlook Express/Windows Mail Please reply to newsgroup only. Please provide feedback so that others may be helped.
"John" wrote in message

I installed MS Office 2003 and now when I press the Email button on my keyboard Outlook opens instead of Windows Mail. Outlook setting is not to make it the default mail handler. In Windows Mail the make default buttons are grayed out, I can't change it to make Windows Mail the default mail handler.
John

Tried what you said twice, and it's still grayed out.
"Jim Pickering" wrote in message

Try this and see if it works for you. Click WinKey+R to open the Run line and type: winmail /reg Note the space between the ending of winmail and the /reg
Then open Outlook Express and see if it's now listed as your default Mail and News handler. -- Jim Pickering, MVP-Outlook Express/Windows Mail Please reply to newsgroup only. Please provide feedback so that others may be helped.
"John" wrote in message I installed MS Office 2003 and now when I press the Email button on my keyboard Outlook opens instead of Windows Mail. Outlook setting is not to make it the default mail handler. In Windows Mail the make default buttons are grayed out, I can't change it to make Windows Mail the default mail handler.
John

Is this on your own personal computer or one at your workplace? If at a workplace, your IT people may have altered it.
See if you can find a 'No Check Default' DWORD at this registry key:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows Mail
Or if this is an upgraded installation (i.e., Vista over XP) then see if this old key (for Outlook Express) exists:
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Identities\{GUID}\Software\Microsoft\Outlook Express\5.0\Mail And in the right side column: No Check Default If Value data is 1 Change it to 0
-- Jim Pickering, MVP-Outlook Express/Windows Mail Please reply to newsgroup only. Please provide feedback so that others may be helped.
Default Mail Client. "John" wrote in message

Tried what you said twice, and it's still grayed out.
"Jim Pickering" wrote in message Try this and see if it works for you. Click WinKey+R to open the Run line and type: winmail /reg Note the space between the ending of winmail and the /reg
Then open Outlook Express and see if it's now listed as your default Mail and News handler. -- Jim Pickering, MVP-Outlook Express/Windows Mail Please reply to newsgroup only. Please provide feedback so that others may be helped.
"John" wrote in message I installed MS Office 2003 and now when I press the Email button on my keyboard Outlook opens instead of Windows Mail. Outlook setting is not to make it the default mail handler. In Windows Mail the make default buttons are grayed out, I can't change it to make Windows Mail the default mail handler.
John

"John" wrote in message

Tried what you said twice, and it's still grayed out.
"Jim Pickering" wrote in message Try this and see if it works for you. Click WinKey+R to open the Run line and type: winmail /reg Note the space between the ending of winmail and the /reg
Then open Outlook Express and see if it's now listed as your default Mail and News handler. -- Jim Pickering, MVP-Outlook Express/Windows Mail Please reply to newsgroup only. Please provide feedback so that others may be helped.
"John" wrote in message I installed MS Office 2003 and now when I press the Email button on my keyboard Outlook opens instead of Windows Mail. Outlook setting is not to make it the default mail handler. In Windows Mail the make default buttons are grayed out, I can't change it to make Windows Mail the default mail handler.
John

Try Control Panel | Programs Under Default Programs click "Set program defaults on this computer".
-- Frank Saunders, MS-MVP, OE/WM Please reply in newsgroup.

Set program defaults on this computer did it. Thanks!
John
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"John" wrote in message Tried what you said twice, and it's still grayed out.
"Jim Pickering" wrote in message Try this and see if it works for you. Click WinKey+R to open the Run line and type: winmail /reg Note the space between the ending of winmail and the /reg
Then open Outlook Express and see if it's now listed as your default Mail and News handler. -- Jim Pickering, MVP-Outlook Express/Windows Mail Please reply to newsgroup only. Please provide feedback so that others may be helped.
"John" wrote in message I installed MS Office 2003 and now when I press the Email button on my keyboard Outlook opens instead of Windows Mail. Outlook setting is not to make it the default mail handler. In Windows Mail the make default buttons are grayed out, I can't change it to make Windows Mail the default mail handler.
John

Try Control Panel | Programs Under Default Programs click "Set program defaults on this computer".
-- Frank Saunders, MS-MVP, OE/WM Please reply in newsgroup.

Yeah, I think that is going to be the recommended solution. Outlook continues to like to screw up WinMail, just as it does OE.
steve
"Frank Saunders, MS-MVP, OE/WM" wrote in message

"John" wrote in message Tried what you said twice, and it's still grayed out.
"Jim Pickering" wrote in message Try this and see if it works for you. Click WinKey+R to open the Run line and type: winmail /reg Note the space between the ending of winmail and the /reg
Then open Outlook Express and see if it's now listed as your default Mail and News handler. -- Jim Pickering, MVP-Outlook Express/Windows Mail Please reply to newsgroup only. Please provide feedback so that others may be helped.
"John" wrote in message I installed MS Office 2003 and now when I press the Email button on my keyboard Outlook opens instead of Windows Mail. Outlook setting is not to make it the default mail handler. In Windows Mail the make default buttons are grayed out, I can't change it to make Windows Mail the default mail handler.
John

Try Control Panel | Programs Under Default Programs click "Set program defaults on this computer".
-- Frank Saunders, MS-MVP, OE/WM Please reply in newsgroup.