Vista Tutorial - Making Window Mail default mail handler??

Ever since I installed Office 97 (yes I know it's old ) Windows Mail has
changed from being my default handler. I removed Outlook and then removed
Office 97 but still I cannot get Windows Mail to be my default mail program.
When I click on "make default" and then go right back in to check, it has
already changed back to not being the default handler. What can I do?

How did you make it default?

Try Control Panel | Default Programs and then set WinMail there as default.

If that doesn't work then try going to Start | Search and copy and paste the
line below. Then check Control Panel | Default Programs again.

"c:\program files\windows mail\winmail.exe" /reg

steve

"Timothy Wright" <genesis2000_7@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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> Ever since I installed Office 97 (yes I know it's old ) Windows Mail
> has changed from being my default handler. I removed Outlook and then
> removed Office 97 but still I cannot get Windows Mail to be my default
> mail program. When I click on "make default" and then go right back in to
> check, it has already changed back to not being the default handler. What
> can I do?

Originally I tried making Winmail my default under Tools/Options (inside
WinMail). When I go under Default Programs it show only Win Mail (News)
which only lets me change the news handler. There is no program listed for
WinMail (Mail) When I go to "Set Program Access and Computer Defaults" it
only shows "Use my current email program" with no options to change it. I
tried using "c:\program files\windows mail\winmail.exe" /reg but it did not
work either. It's like it does not recognize WinMail. It will not let me
email webpages, that option is greyed out.

Is there a way of reinstalling just WinMail? Perhaps I corrupted some files
when installing Office 97. Or should I just reinstall Vista?

tim


"Steve Cochran" <scochran@oehelp.com> wrote in message
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> How did you make it default?
>
> Try Control Panel | Default Programs and then set WinMail there as
> default.
>
> If that doesn't work then try going to Start | Search and copy and paste
> the line below. Then check Control Panel | Default Programs again.
>
> "c:\program files\windows mail\winmail.exe" /reg
>
> steve
>
> "Timothy Wright" <genesis2000_7@yahoo.com> wrote in message
> news:ecBK2zfSHHA.1200@TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl...
>> Ever since I installed Office 97 (yes I know it's old ) Windows Mail
>> has changed from being my default handler. I removed Outlook and then
>> removed Office 97 but still I cannot get Windows Mail to be my default
>> mail program. When I click on "make default" and then go right back in to
>> check, it has already changed back to not being the default handler. What
>> can I do?
>

Problem solved! I reinstalled Vista and it is back to normal.

Thanks for your input Steve.

Tim

Glad you fixed it. I think Office 97 is not for Vista.

steve

"Timothy Wright" <genesis2000_7@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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> Problem solved! I reinstalled Vista and it is back to normal.
>
> Thanks for your input Steve.
>
> Tim

When you reinstalled, did you lose anything? I have the same problem with
Outlook 2003 I installed but don't want to lose all of the work I have done,
programs I have installed, contact and address books I have input, etc.

Thanks for the response.

"Timothy Wright" wrote:

> Problem solved! I reinstalled Vista and it is back to normal.
>
> Thanks for your input Steve.
>
> Tim
>

This is helful but my problem is that direct sending of WORD Documents (and
EXEL) defaults to Outlook, when Windows Mail is my default e-mail. Docs and
EXCEL do not list in my list of default programs and, as I only installed
Office 2007 yesterday, I am a bit nervous over how to load them.
--
Hammers


"Steve Cochran" wrote:

> How did you make it default?
>
> Try Control Panel | Default Programs and then set WinMail there as default.
>
> If that doesn't work then try going to Start | Search and copy and paste the
> line below. Then check Control Panel | Default Programs again.
>
> "c:\program files\windows mail\winmail.exe" /reg
>
> steve
>
> "Timothy Wright" <genesis2000_7@yahoo.com> wrote in message
> news:ecBK2zfSHHA.1200@TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl...
> > Ever since I installed Office 97 (yes I know it's old ) Windows Mail
> > has changed from being my default handler. I removed Outlook and then
> > removed Office 97 but still I cannot get Windows Mail to be my default
> > mail program. When I click on "make default" and then go right back in to
> > check, it has already changed back to not being the default handler. What
> > can I do?
>

Hi Tim,

I'm glad you got it fixed, but here is a link if should happen again or if someone else has the same problem. This way you will not have to do a reinstall again hopefully. It will show you how to add Windows Mail back to the default list.

Windows Mail Default Associations

Shawn