along the same lines.. before upgrading to Vista I was able to type
news://msnews.microsoft.com into IE and it would fire up my default news
reader (outlook express) is there some way of doing this now with Windows
Mail (which I only use for reading news .. as I have outlook)
thanks Kevin
"Steve Cochran" <scochran@oehelp.com> wrote in message
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0376368-9385-4589-A8E6-78DADBE86726@microsoft.com...
> Try
>
> "C:\Program Files\Windows Mail\WinMail.exe" /news
>
> Assuming C is the system drive.
>
> steve
>
> "elziko" <elziko@yahoo.co.uk> wrote in message
> news:OVj3m%23vCHHA.4372@TK2MSFTNGP03.phx.gbl...
>> The /newsonly switch doesn't seem to work for Windows Mail as it did for
>> Outlook Express. It would open Outlook Express without all the e-mail
>> options so as just to display things that are relevant to Usenet.
>>
>> Is there some other way to get this functionality back or have we just
>> lost
>> it?
>>
>> TIA
>>
>