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Cannot Make Outlook 2003 Default Email in Windows XP Pro SP2
Upon login, get a message that there is no default email program that
can handle the messaging requirements. When I go to Internet Options in Control Panel, I cannot set the EMAIL program default to Outlook 2003. When I try to use "Set Program Access and Defaults", Outlook 2003 isn't offered as a selection. Outlook 2003 Does allow the Option to be set to Make Outlook the default but doesn't seem to have any effect. I have removed the Windows Live EMail program (don't know who installed all that Windows Live stuff anyway). Hasn't seemed to have helped. Guidance appreciated... -- BilBo |
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Cannot Make Outlook 2003 Default Email in Windows XP Pro SP2
Have you tried running a detect/repair of Office/Outlook 2003? (Go thru the
add/remove programs applet in the control panel. Choose detect/repair or reinstall. Hopefully that is enough to restore the necessary registry keys.) "Bilbo fake rubbish.domain.org" wlpfauxat wrote in message ... Upon login, get a message that there is no default email program that can handle the messaging requirements. When I go to Internet Options in Control Panel, I cannot set the EMAIL program default to Outlook 2003. When I try to use "Set Program Access and Defaults", Outlook 2003 isn't offered as a selection. Outlook 2003 Does allow the Option to be set to Make Outlook the default but doesn't seem to have any effect. I have removed the Windows Live EMail program (don't know who installed all that Windows Live stuff anyway). Hasn't seemed to have helped. Guidance appreciated... -- BilBo |
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Cannot Make Outlook 2003 Default Email in Windows XP Pro SP2
Yes, I've even removed all the Windows Live stuff except for the Write
(which will NOT remove) and then re-installed Office from the saved installation files. Microsoft Outlook 2003 is not offered in Internet Options | Programs for either Email, Calendar or Contacts applications. There's still some vestige of Windows Live that simply will not go away as an email selection.. I can't do a restore -- there aren't any restore points that go back to December of last year when some former secretary installed the Windows Live stuff. I'm tempted to use MSIUU2 to try to remove the Windows Live Write application. I'm really floundering here though. The registry entries I've seen (and I'm no expert on Outlook's registry entries) seem awfully sparse. Tomorrow, I'll go into the office and do a complete un-install then re-install of office to see if that'll help. I'm not real optimistic though. A bit of history may be appropriate: Deleting some defunct local profiles on the workstation or Windows Live (don't know which) may have damaged Outlook and I wasn't able to re-install it. So I had to use MSICUU2 to remove Office entirely, then re-install it. But Windows Live had been installed AFTER the original Office Install and who knows what that did to the registry. Guidance appreciated... Bilbo On Tue, 2 Sep 2008 14:56:17 -0700, "neo [mvp outlook]" wrote: Have you tried running a detect/repair of Office/Outlook 2003? (Go thru the add/remove programs applet in the control panel. Choose detect/repair or reinstall. Hopefully that is enough to restore the necessary registry keys.) "Bilbo fake rubbish.domain.org" wlpfauxat wrote in message .. . Upon login, get a message that there is no default email program that can handle the messaging requirements. When I go to Internet Options in Control Panel, I cannot set the EMAIL program default to Outlook 2003. When I try to use "Set Program Access and Defaults", Outlook 2003 isn't offered as a selection. Outlook 2003 Does allow the Option to be set to Make Outlook the default but doesn't seem to have any effect. I have removed the Windows Live EMail program (don't know who installed all that Windows Live stuff anyway). Hasn't seemed to have helped. Guidance appreciated... -- BilBo -- BilBo |
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Cannot Make Outlook 2003 Default Email in Windows XP Pro SP2
The only other thing I can think of is to start Outlook 2003 with the
/regserver command line switch. How to: Start Run Type: outlook.exe /regserver OK button "Bilbo fake rubbish.domain.org" wlpfauxat wrote in message ... Yes, I've even removed all the Windows Live stuff except for the Write (which will NOT remove) and then re-installed Office from the saved installation files. Microsoft Outlook 2003 is not offered in Internet Options | Programs for either Email, Calendar or Contacts applications. There's still some vestige of Windows Live that simply will not go away as an email selection.. I can't do a restore -- there aren't any restore points that go back to December of last year when some former secretary installed the Windows Live stuff. I'm tempted to use MSIUU2 to try to remove the Windows Live Write application. I'm really floundering here though. The registry entries I've seen (and I'm no expert on Outlook's registry entries) seem awfully sparse. Tomorrow, I'll go into the office and do a complete un-install then re-install of office to see if that'll help. I'm not real optimistic though. A bit of history may be appropriate: Deleting some defunct local profiles on the workstation or Windows Live (don't know which) may have damaged Outlook and I wasn't able to re-install it. So I had to use MSICUU2 to remove Office entirely, then re-install it. But Windows Live had been installed AFTER the original Office Install and who knows what that did to the registry. Guidance appreciated... Bilbo On Tue, 2 Sep 2008 14:56:17 -0700, "neo [mvp outlook]" wrote: Have you tried running a detect/repair of Office/Outlook 2003? (Go thru the add/remove programs applet in the control panel. Choose detect/repair or reinstall. Hopefully that is enough to restore the necessary registry keys.) "Bilbo fake rubbish.domain.org" wlpfauxat wrote in message . .. Upon login, get a message that there is no default email program that can handle the messaging requirements. When I go to Internet Options in Control Panel, I cannot set the EMAIL program default to Outlook 2003. When I try to use "Set Program Access and Defaults", Outlook 2003 isn't offered as a selection. Outlook 2003 Does allow the Option to be set to Make Outlook the default but doesn't seem to have any effect. I have removed the Windows Live EMail program (don't know who installed all that Windows Live stuff anyway). Hasn't seemed to have helped. Guidance appreciated... -- BilBo -- BilBo |
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Cannot Make Outlook 2003 Default Email in Windows XP Pro SP2
Is that an undocumented switch? Help doesn't show it.
This IS an Outlook 2003 -- not 2007 -- switch, right? Didn't know there were "hidden" command-line switches for Outlook 2003. I'll give it a try. Thanks, Bilbo On Wed, 3 Sep 2008 04:21:25 -0700, "neo [mvp outlook]" wrote: The only other thing I can think of is to start Outlook 2003 with the /regserver command line switch. How to: Start Run Type: outlook.exe /regserver OK button "Bilbo fake rubbish.domain.org" wlpfauxat wrote in message .. . Yes, I've even removed all the Windows Live stuff except for the Write (which will NOT remove) and then re-installed Office from the saved installation files. Microsoft Outlook 2003 is not offered in Internet Options | Programs for either Email, Calendar or Contacts applications. There's still some vestige of Windows Live that simply will not go away as an email selection.. I can't do a restore -- there aren't any restore points that go back to December of last year when some former secretary installed the Windows Live stuff. I'm tempted to use MSIUU2 to try to remove the Windows Live Write application. I'm really floundering here though. The registry entries I've seen (and I'm no expert on Outlook's registry entries) seem awfully sparse. Tomorrow, I'll go into the office and do a complete un-install then re-install of office to see if that'll help. I'm not real optimistic though. A bit of history may be appropriate: Deleting some defunct local profiles on the workstation or Windows Live (don't know which) may have damaged Outlook and I wasn't able to re-install it. So I had to use MSICUU2 to remove Office entirely, then re-install it. But Windows Live had been installed AFTER the original Office Install and who knows what that did to the registry. Guidance appreciated... Bilbo On Tue, 2 Sep 2008 14:56:17 -0700, "neo [mvp outlook]" wrote: Have you tried running a detect/repair of Office/Outlook 2003? (Go thru the add/remove programs applet in the control panel. Choose detect/repair or reinstall. Hopefully that is enough to restore the necessary registry keys.) "Bilbo fake rubbish.domain.org" wlpfauxat wrote in message ... Upon login, get a message that there is no default email program that can handle the messaging requirements. When I go to Internet Options in Control Panel, I cannot set the EMAIL program default to Outlook 2003. When I try to use "Set Program Access and Defaults", Outlook 2003 isn't offered as a selection. Outlook 2003 Does allow the Option to be set to Make Outlook the default but doesn't seem to have any effect. I have removed the Windows Live EMail program (don't know who installed all that Windows Live stuff anyway). Hasn't seemed to have helped. Guidance appreciated... -- BilBo -- BilBo -- BilBo |
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Cannot Make Outlook 2003 Default Email in Windows XP Pro SP2
No it isn't, it is listed in Outlook 2003's help. Search for 'command
line'. "Bilbo fake rubbish.domain.org" wlpfauxat wrote in message ... Is that an undocumented switch? Help doesn't show it. This IS an Outlook 2003 -- not 2007 -- switch, right? Didn't know there were "hidden" command-line switches for Outlook 2003. I'll give it a try. Thanks, Bilbo On Wed, 3 Sep 2008 04:21:25 -0700, "neo [mvp outlook]" wrote: The only other thing I can think of is to start Outlook 2003 with the /regserver command line switch. How to: Start Run Type: outlook.exe /regserver OK button "Bilbo fake rubbish.domain.org" wlpfauxat wrote in message . .. Yes, I've even removed all the Windows Live stuff except for the Write (which will NOT remove) and then re-installed Office from the saved installation files. Microsoft Outlook 2003 is not offered in Internet Options | Programs for either Email, Calendar or Contacts applications. There's still some vestige of Windows Live that simply will not go away as an email selection.. I can't do a restore -- there aren't any restore points that go back to December of last year when some former secretary installed the Windows Live stuff. I'm tempted to use MSIUU2 to try to remove the Windows Live Write application. I'm really floundering here though. The registry entries I've seen (and I'm no expert on Outlook's registry entries) seem awfully sparse. Tomorrow, I'll go into the office and do a complete un-install then re-install of office to see if that'll help. I'm not real optimistic though. A bit of history may be appropriate: Deleting some defunct local profiles on the workstation or Windows Live (don't know which) may have damaged Outlook and I wasn't able to re-install it. So I had to use MSICUU2 to remove Office entirely, then re-install it. But Windows Live had been installed AFTER the original Office Install and who knows what that did to the registry. Guidance appreciated... Bilbo On Tue, 2 Sep 2008 14:56:17 -0700, "neo [mvp outlook]" wrote: Have you tried running a detect/repair of Office/Outlook 2003? (Go thru the add/remove programs applet in the control panel. Choose detect/repair or reinstall. Hopefully that is enough to restore the necessary registry keys.) "Bilbo fake rubbish.domain.org" wlpfauxat wrote in message m... Upon login, get a message that there is no default email program that can handle the messaging requirements. When I go to Internet Options in Control Panel, I cannot set the EMAIL program default to Outlook 2003. When I try to use "Set Program Access and Defaults", Outlook 2003 isn't offered as a selection. Outlook 2003 Does allow the Option to be set to Make Outlook the default but doesn't seem to have any effect. I have removed the Windows Live EMail program (don't know who installed all that Windows Live stuff anyway). Hasn't seemed to have helped. Guidance appreciated... -- BilBo -- BilBo -- BilBo |
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Cannot Make Outlook 2003 Default Email in Windows XP Pro SP2
Weird; we must have installed from different builds or something.
MY Outlook 2003 (Office Pro SP3) doesn't include that switch in Help. Nonetheless, I tried it on the problem installation and Outlook 2003 (SP3) refused to start with an invalid command-line argument. Is that perhaps a switch added with BCM (which I don't install)? Curious. The problem was solved by using Windows Installer Cleanup Utility (msicuu2) to remove Windows Live Writer (whatever the heck that is). Suddenly, Outlook was unblocked and all was right with the installation. I didn't even have to re-install or repair Office. Bilbo On Wed, 3 Sep 2008 14:17:51 -0700, "neo [mvp outlook]" wrote: No it isn't, it is listed in Outlook 2003's help. Search for 'command line'. "Bilbo fake rubbish.domain.org" wlpfauxat wrote in message .. . Is that an undocumented switch? Help doesn't show it. This IS an Outlook 2003 -- not 2007 -- switch, right? Didn't know there were "hidden" command-line switches for Outlook 2003. I'll give it a try. Thanks, Bilbo On Wed, 3 Sep 2008 04:21:25 -0700, "neo [mvp outlook]" wrote: The only other thing I can think of is to start Outlook 2003 with the /regserver command line switch. How to: Start Run Type: outlook.exe /regserver OK button "Bilbo fake rubbish.domain.org" wlpfauxat wrote in message ... Yes, I've even removed all the Windows Live stuff except for the Write (which will NOT remove) and then re-installed Office from the saved installation files. Microsoft Outlook 2003 is not offered in Internet Options | Programs for either Email, Calendar or Contacts applications. There's still some vestige of Windows Live that simply will not go away as an email selection.. I can't do a restore -- there aren't any restore points that go back to December of last year when some former secretary installed the Windows Live stuff. I'm tempted to use MSIUU2 to try to remove the Windows Live Write application. I'm really floundering here though. The registry entries I've seen (and I'm no expert on Outlook's registry entries) seem awfully sparse. Tomorrow, I'll go into the office and do a complete un-install then re-install of office to see if that'll help. I'm not real optimistic though. A bit of history may be appropriate: Deleting some defunct local profiles on the workstation or Windows Live (don't know which) may have damaged Outlook and I wasn't able to re-install it. So I had to use MSICUU2 to remove Office entirely, then re-install it. But Windows Live had been installed AFTER the original Office Install and who knows what that did to the registry. Guidance appreciated... Bilbo On Tue, 2 Sep 2008 14:56:17 -0700, "neo [mvp outlook]" wrote: Have you tried running a detect/repair of Office/Outlook 2003? (Go thru the add/remove programs applet in the control panel. Choose detect/repair or reinstall. Hopefully that is enough to restore the necessary registry keys.) "Bilbo fake rubbish.domain.org" wlpfauxat wrote in message om... Upon login, get a message that there is no default email program that can handle the messaging requirements. When I go to Internet Options in Control Panel, I cannot set the EMAIL program default to Outlook 2003. When I try to use "Set Program Access and Defaults", Outlook 2003 isn't offered as a selection. Outlook 2003 Does allow the Option to be set to Make Outlook the default but doesn't seem to have any effect. I have removed the Windows Live EMail program (don't know who installed all that Windows Live stuff anyway). Hasn't seemed to have helped. Guidance appreciated... -- BilBo -- BilBo -- BilBo -- BilBo |
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Cannot Make Outlook 2003 Default Email in Windows XP Pro SP2
Thanks for letting me know about the removal of live writer.
Not sure what to say since I run Office/Outlook 2003 with SP3 and the switch is listed in help. (No BCM here.) "Bilbo fake rubbish.domain.org" wlpfauxat wrote in message ... Weird; we must have installed from different builds or something. MY Outlook 2003 (Office Pro SP3) doesn't include that switch in Help. Nonetheless, I tried it on the problem installation and Outlook 2003 (SP3) refused to start with an invalid command-line argument. Is that perhaps a switch added with BCM (which I don't install)? Curious. The problem was solved by using Windows Installer Cleanup Utility (msicuu2) to remove Windows Live Writer (whatever the heck that is). Suddenly, Outlook was unblocked and all was right with the installation. I didn't even have to re-install or repair Office. Bilbo On Wed, 3 Sep 2008 14:17:51 -0700, "neo [mvp outlook]" wrote: No it isn't, it is listed in Outlook 2003's help. Search for 'command line'. "Bilbo fake rubbish.domain.org" wlpfauxat wrote in message . .. Is that an undocumented switch? Help doesn't show it. This IS an Outlook 2003 -- not 2007 -- switch, right? Didn't know there were "hidden" command-line switches for Outlook 2003. I'll give it a try. Thanks, Bilbo On Wed, 3 Sep 2008 04:21:25 -0700, "neo [mvp outlook]" wrote: The only other thing I can think of is to start Outlook 2003 with the /regserver command line switch. How to: Start Run Type: outlook.exe /regserver OK button "Bilbo fake rubbish.domain.org" wlpfauxat wrote in message m... Yes, I've even removed all the Windows Live stuff except for the Write (which will NOT remove) and then re-installed Office from the saved installation files. Microsoft Outlook 2003 is not offered in Internet Options | Programs for either Email, Calendar or Contacts applications. There's still some vestige of Windows Live that simply will not go away as an email selection.. I can't do a restore -- there aren't any restore points that go back to December of last year when some former secretary installed the Windows Live stuff. I'm tempted to use MSIUU2 to try to remove the Windows Live Write application. I'm really floundering here though. The registry entries I've seen (and I'm no expert on Outlook's registry entries) seem awfully sparse. Tomorrow, I'll go into the office and do a complete un-install then re-install of office to see if that'll help. I'm not real optimistic though. A bit of history may be appropriate: Deleting some defunct local profiles on the workstation or Windows Live (don't know which) may have damaged Outlook and I wasn't able to re-install it. So I had to use MSICUU2 to remove Office entirely, then re-install it. But Windows Live had been installed AFTER the original Office Install and who knows what that did to the registry. Guidance appreciated... Bilbo On Tue, 2 Sep 2008 14:56:17 -0700, "neo [mvp outlook]" wrote: Have you tried running a detect/repair of Office/Outlook 2003? (Go thru the add/remove programs applet in the control panel. Choose detect/repair or reinstall. Hopefully that is enough to restore the necessary registry keys.) "Bilbo fake rubbish.domain.org" wlpfauxat wrote in message news:jk7rb4ha0cc5n4v5h7gono3l29hp7urfs1@4ax. com... Upon login, get a message that there is no default email program that can handle the messaging requirements. When I go to Internet Options in Control Panel, I cannot set the program default to Outlook 2003. When I try to use "Set Program Access and Defaults", Outlook 2003 isn't offered as a selection. Outlook 2003 Does allow the Option to be set to Make Outlook the default but doesn't seem to have any effect. I have removed the Windows Live EMail program (don't know who installed all that Windows Live stuff anyway). Hasn't seemed to have helped. Guidance appreciated... -- BilBo -- BilBo -- BilBo -- BilBo |
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Cannot Make Outlook 2003 Default Email in Windows XP Pro SP2
"Bilbo fake rubbish.domain.org" wlpfauxat wrote in message
... Weird; we must have installed from different builds or something. MY Outlook 2003 (Office Pro SP3) doesn't include that switch in Help. I'll bet it is. OIn the search box of Outlook's help, enter "command switch". Nonetheless, I tried it on the problem installation and Outlook 2003 (SP3) refused to start with an invalid command-line argument. Then it's likely you entered the command improperly. Click StartRun and enter outlook.exe /regserver and be sure to include the space after ".exe". Click OK. -- Brian Tillman [MVP-Outlook] |
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Cannot Make Outlook 2003 Default Email in Windows XP Pro SP2
I'll bet it isn't!
Microsoft Office Outlook® 2003 Professional (11.8217.8202) SP3 is my own installation and the command line switch reference goes like this (in part) ... /profiles /recycle /resetfoldernames /resetfolders /resetnavpane /rpcdiag /s ... NOWHERE is a /regserver switch shown -- at least, I can't find one. FWIW, there IS a regserver command that can be used to re-register some Office applications. See http://support.microsoft.com/kb/918957 but this article explicitly says: "Note this method will not work for Microsoft Outlook". I really do know how to type and read and all that. I can even spell most of the time... Bilbo On Thu, 4 Sep 2008 14:14:32 -0400, "Brian Tillman [MVP - Outlook]" wrote: "Bilbo fake rubbish.domain.org" wlpfauxat wrote in message .. . Weird; we must have installed from different builds or something. MY Outlook 2003 (Office Pro SP3) doesn't include that switch in Help. I'll bet it is. OIn the search box of Outlook's help, enter "command switch". Nonetheless, I tried it on the problem installation and Outlook 2003 (SP3) refused to start with an invalid command-line argument. Then it's likely you entered the command improperly. Click StartRun and enter outlook.exe /regserver and be sure to include the space after ".exe". Click OK. -- BilBo |
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