Re: Windows Live Hijack

[crosspost to OE General and, for good measure, Windows Live Mail &
Messenger newsgroups]

I have gone through the Windows Live Essentials installation process many,
many times and every time I've done so, all of the Windows Live applications
have been pre-checked (pre-selected) and I had to uncheck (de-select) the
ones I didn't want to install.

Do I condone the Windows Live team for making them all pre-checked by
default? Most certainly not, nor should you have to uncheck the option to
install Google or MSN toolbar when you're installing Flash Player or Sun
Java Runtimes updates.

To correct the behavior, you'll have to reassert Outlook Express as the
default Mail Client in (1) Set Program Access and Defaults, (2) IE Tools |
Internet Options | Programs, *and* in (3) OE Tools | Options | General |
Default Messaing Programs.

After doing so, uninstall Windows Live Mail (and Windows Live Photo Gallery,
and Windows Live Movie Maker, and Windows Live Writer, and Windows Live
Toolbar, and Windows Live Family Safety) via Add/Remove Programs & reboot.

If you wanna bitch about it (and you should IMHO), do so via
https://feedback.live.com/default.aspx
--
~Robear Dyer (PA Bear)
MS MVP-IE, Mail, Security, Windows Client - since 2002
www.banthecheck.com


Jim Bunton wrote:
> Dear PA Bear
> Thanks for responding to my posting.
> However, you will know that's it's not helpful.
> It's not, quite honestly, the sort of response I would have expected form
> a
> MS MVP.
> I think it's simply arrogant and ill mannered.
> I think if you take the trouble to mimic the installation process I went
> through it's not at all obvious that it's going to produce the result I
> have
> experienced.
>
>> Then why did you install Windows Live Mail (and Windows Live Photo
>> Gallery, Windows Live Movie Maker, Windows Live Writer, Windows Live
>> Toolbar, and Windows Live Family Safety?) when you installed Windows Live
>> Messenger?
>>
>> Yes, the others should NOT have been pre-checked but you've gotta pay
>> attention when you're installing anything.
>>
>> Jim Bunton wrote:
>>> When double clicking .eml files they used to open in Outlook Express.
>>> Since updating to the latest version of Msn Messenger they are now
>>> opened
>>> by
>>> Windows live mail.
>>>
>>> I don't want this!
>>>
>>> Tried windowsexplorer > menu > tools > folder options
>>>
>>> alter windows live for .eml files to Outlook express.
>>> point to Crogramme files\outlookexpress\msimn.exe
>>>
>>> double click .eml file
>>> Result Outlook opens BUT it doesn't display the selected .eml file
>>>
>>> ! Help please