Vista - Re: Choice of E-Mail Client in Windows Live Messenger

Which OS, XP or Vista? If the latter, try this:
http://www.winhelponline.com/article...ows-Vista.html

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"Ian" <nospam@xxxxxx> wrote in message news:A2C9DB77-91A2-4FAD-94D4-D110E274584F@xxxxxx
Hello,

I use Windows Live Messenger in conjunction with an e-mail address issued in the msn.com domain.

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...

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).

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.)

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).

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...

Thanks in advance for knowledgeable responses.

Ian

If that program does these two things, it may not work in Vista

Change 'Default' Value from "Windows Live Mail" to "Windows Live Hotmail" at the
registry key HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Clients\Mail\Hotmail
- supposedly build 1606 of Windows Live Mail corrected this registry entry in XP and Vista.

And for Vista(only, not XP)
Change the 'Value data' from from "Windows Live Mail" to "Windows Live Hotmail"
for the Value '@C:\Program Files\InternetExplorer\hmmapi.dll,-202' at the registry key
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Classes\LocalSettings\Software\Microsoft\Windows\Shell\MuiCache

Maybe Jonathan Kay will add some confirmation, one way or another, since this is cross-posted to WLM and WLMessenger newsgroups.


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"Gary VanderMolen" <Gary@xxxxxx> wrote in message news:ecFp#va2IHA.1768@xxxxxx