Re: Outlook and messenger

Greetings,

You'll simply need to change Hotmail back to the default mail handler. To do so, open up
Internet Explorer, click the Tools menu, then Internet Options, then Programs tab and under
E-mail, select Hotmail.

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"apye" <apye@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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>I have recently got a new PC and have loaded Office XP. I have set up outlook
> to send and receive from my main email account. I also have a hotmail account
> which I used to access from messenger by right clicking on it and selecting
> 'my email inbox' which would open the hotmail web page. Now when I select 'my
> email inbox' it opens outlook!? Messenger and outlook seem to be linked in
> some way as I cannot close messenger while outlook is still open. All I want
> to do is use messenger to acess my hotmail account and not to have it linked
> to outlook, any ideas how I can change this. Thanks.....


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