
getting involved, but is a little less efficient.Ī basic problem I have is not understanding O.E. This is not really a problem it gets the job of emailing done, avoids O.E. through use of browser tabs and composing emails in a separate tab, copy & paste, and if necessary, retyping email addresses. The Outlook Express was set-up to use one of the AT&T-Yahoo accounts. The goal is just to keep Outlook Express out of the way or disable it. As such you cannot tell it to use webmail by default. It is functioning as designed due to the fact that mailto: is a way to brng up the default email client. 3, Internet Explorer 8, Outlook Express Version 6 (Eventually I want to try to learn to use Thunderbird, and study this using new email webmail accounts).
#Remove outlook express 6 windows xp windows
Once in a while, I click on a hyperlink, and find that (because I did not check the link carefully) it was an email link, and Outlook Express v 6 opens and I must wait until it finishes opening before I can close it to get back to business.Ĭan OE simply be disabled and left as installed on the machine, or must it be REMOVED by unchecking in Windows Components? If REMOVING is done, is it then really removed, or is it actually disabled but still present?Īlso, is it possible to make this Outlook Express to NOT be the default email client? I rely on webmail directly and so I never use Outlook Express anymore. This program is sometimes a nuisance and is still confusing. Uninstalling it is not really what I want.

After checking in this forum and the XP forum, I am aware of "Uninstall Windows Components", but I wish I could just disable Outlook Express.
