Outlook Express as Default Email?

[TonyMan]

Can Outlook Express be set as the default email program. I set it under tools in Outlook Express, but it doesn't work. When I click a link for email on a web site it stalls then over 60 blank windows open. In IE the only options for default email is Outlook & Yahoo nail.

Using XP pro, Outlook Express 6.00.2800.1123, and IE 6.00.2800.1106, and hotmail for mail.

[MJCfromCT]

If you have at least SP1 installed, try setting it in "Set Program Access and Defaults" in "Add/Remove Programs" in the Control Panel.

[TonyMan]

Under Choose a default email program I have "Use my current email program, nothing else, and it is clicked. Also noticed that after installing Yahoo messenger, I have a Yahoo mail program that I cannot delete.

[BipolarBill]

Internet Options > Programs.

[Strawbs]

You should be able to set it in OE options near the bottom of the "General" tab

[TonyMan]

"You should be able to set it in OE options near the bottom of the "General" tab"

Well, that is the first thing I tried. I just looked and it was not the default program. I changed it, clicked apply, then OK. I closed that menu, opened it again, and it once again said it was not the default.

As far as setting it in IE, I do not get OE as an option, just Outlook & Yahoo mail. I do not use Yahoo mail, but it loaded with Yahoo Messenger and it will not uninstall.

[BipolarBill]

Find the MSOE50.INF file and right-click it. Select Install. You will need the XP CD. You may have to manually search the C: drive for the files.

When done, check Internet Options again.

[TonyMan]

Bill, did you maybe mean MSOE50.INF? I cannot find the file you specified. I found the this one in C:\windows\servicepackfiles\i386. I feel this has to be it, just want to verify.

Thanks

[BipolarBill]

Oops. Yah - I meant the INF file. Sorry.

[TonyMan]

Thanks Bill, that did it. I tested it out from a web site - works fine.