Hi Ian.
If you are signed in to Windows Live through Windows Live Mail, the e-mail button in WLMessenger will open WLMail, but if you are not 'signed in' through WLMail, then the e-mail button in WLMessenger will open Internet Explorer to your associated Hotmail account.
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Cheers,
Peter.R
(Windows Vista Home Premium SP1 with Windows Live Mail 12.0.1606)
"There are more things in Heaven and earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy." - Shakespeare
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"Ian" <nospam@xxxxxx> wrote in message news:A2C9DB77-91A2-4FAD-94D4-D110E274584F@xxxxxx
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> Hello,
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> I use Windows Live Messenger in conjunction with an e-mail address issued in the msn.com domain.
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> When I receive an e-mail I am alerted through Messenger and I can click the "Open your e-mail inbox" button (in Messenger) to view it. Familiar to all of us I'm sure...
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> I have recently experimented with the Windows Live Mail desktop client and I now find that, when I click the above-mentioned button in Messenger, I am taken to Windows Live Mail to view my message there (rather than the traditional web-based Windows Live Hotmail client).
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> For a number of reasons - I would prefer to NOT use Windows Live Mail to view my e-mail messages (by default) and would like to continue to view them using in web-based Hotmail. (It's lighter-weight, familiar & quick.)
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> My Question: Is it possible to revert back to using web-based Hotmail, without uninstalling Windows Live Mail? I tried editing my Windows Live Mail configuration to remove my msn.com email account, but the program still gets launched when I click the e-mail button in Messenger. (I still want to use Windows Live Mail for its other features - RSS feeds & newsgroups, mainly).
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> I have been through all the Messenger settings; and haven't found one for this. I half expect someone's will tell me I have to edit something directly in the Windows Registry. I'm good with that...
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> Thanks in advance for knowledgeable responses.
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> Ian