Mail Icon Issues

Hi,

I'm having trouble getting the Mail Icon on IE 6.02900.2180 (w/sp2) to
start Outlook (SBE 2003). In fact nothing happens. The same happens if
trying from File/Send

I can change to Outlook Express or Hotmail in Tools/IO/Programs/E-mail
and the mail icon works correctly.

I've searched this group and have not been able to find out much about
Outlook..... lots of ways to deal with Outlook Express.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Drew

See http://www.slipstick.com/config/defaultmailer.htm
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Drew wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm having trouble getting the Mail Icon on IE 6.02900.2180 (w/sp2) to
> start Outlook (SBE 2003). In fact nothing happens. The same happens if
> trying from File/Send
>
> I can change to Outlook Express or Hotmail in Tools/IO/Programs/E-mail
> and the mail icon works correctly.
>
> I've searched this group and have not been able to find out much about
> Outlook..... lots of ways to deal with Outlook Express.
>
> Any help would be greatly appreciated.
>
> Drew

"Drew" <dhammond@mwbavl.com> wrote in message
news:1136498837.376460.281340@g47g2000cwa.googlegr oups.com
> Hi,
>
> I'm having trouble getting the Mail Icon on IE 6.02900.2180 (w/sp2) to
> start Outlook (SBE 2003). In fact nothing happens. The same happens if
> trying from File/Send
>
> I can change to Outlook Express or Hotmail in Tools/IO/Programs/E-mail
> and the mail icon works correctly.
>
> I've searched this group and have not been able to find out much about
> Outlook..... lots of ways to deal with Outlook Express.
>
> Any help would be greatly appreciated.
>
> Drew

From http://www.fjsmjs.com/OE/defaultl.htm

Go to Start | Run and type this command, with the double quotes and spaces:

"C:\Program Files\Outlook Express\msimn.exe" /reg

and then make sure that OE is selected as the default mail program in both
IE and OE.

If that isn't enough, see this article:
"Send To" and E-mail Links Do Not Work Using Outlook Express as Default:
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=306098

You might also want to try this:

Restores OE to the E-mail clients list in Internet Options
http://www.dougknox.com/xp/scripts_desc/oe_client.htm

To set Outlook as the default mail client,- Go to Start, Run - Type in the
following with quotation marks and press OK
"C:\program files\microsoft office\office\outlook.exe" /checkclient
For more information on Outlook see:
http://www.slipstick.com/config/defaultmailer.htm

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