Hi, i hope this is the correct section ?
I use Outlook Express for all my Email activity, i also have OE set up to recieve all my Hotmail emails and generally everything works fine.
Except of course one thing that is beginning to annoy me, such as :-
somebody sends me an Email with another email attached, if i click on the attatched email as if to open it, i have to wait a few minutes while Windows Live Mail is started up, i can then of course view the email with Windows Live Mail.
I cannot figure out how to change TO "open attatched emails with OE" does anybody here know the answer, please. nothing too complicated please, LOL.
tim
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Re: outlook express opening an attached email
Originally Posted by timmy toad
Is OE set as your default mail client??
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Re: outlook express opening an attached email
Hi buddy, yeah that was the first thing i thought of LOL.
I assume you mean in Internet Explorer Tools/Internet Options/Programs unless you mean i can change the default somewhere else ?. tim |
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Re: outlook express opening an attached email
Originally Posted by timmy toad
Hey. What you are referring to: is setting defualt for IE to use. I was taking about setting it as a "Default Mail" client for EVERYTHING!! What OS is this on? Win XP??
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Re: outlook express opening an attached email
Originally Posted by ilyabyk83
Yeah i am using Win XP, sorry i didnt make that clear. but yeah, i thought that :-
Internet Explorer Tools/Internet Options/Programs was the ONLY place to set OE as my default email client ! tim |
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Re: outlook express opening an attached email
Originally Posted by timmy toad
 If Outlook Express does not display the dialog above on startup, and it is not currently set as the default mail program, you can do so from the Options dialog.From Outlook Express' main window, go to the Tools menu, and click on Options. The Options dialog will open, with the General tab automatically selected.  At the bottom of the General options tab, locate the section labeled Default Messaging Programs.There are two "Make Default" buttons; the top one lets you make Outlook Express Windows' default email program. (If Outlook Express already is the default email program, the text left of the button will read "This application is the default Mail handler"; the button will not be clickable.) If the text left of the button reads "This application is NOT the default Mail handler", click on the Make Default button.   Setting the Default Email Program through Windows Finally, it is also possible to make Outlook Express Windows' default email application by going through the system's Control Panel: see our tutorial on how to set the default email program on Windows XP.
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Re: outlook express opening an attached email
Cheers buddy, but you are going to swear at me !!!, i was barking up the wrong tree right from the very beginning !!!.
I have now figured out it was to do with File Associations, somehow or other it looks as if the .EML file extension got associated with Windows Live Mail probably when i installed it !. I didnt realise this could be the problem until i had UN-INSTALLED Windows Live Mail !!! as .EML then became an unknown file type !!!! Thanks for going to all that trouble to put me on the right track, i feel i owe you summat now ! tim |
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