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Outlook 2007 - Forgetting to be default mail client

by Jason on August 15th, 2006

I received an e-mail from a reader that’s having problems with their Outlook 2007 beta experience. It seems that sporadically her computer forgets that it should have Outlook 2007 as it’s default, instead moving the default back to MSN.

Has anyone else experienced this. It also seems to just have started doing this, not being a problem initially after the install.

I’m curious as to if it’s something more related to MSN taking back control instead of Outlook 2007 releasing control.

To my panel of reader experts, please let us know what you think so we can help this person out.

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15 opinions for Outlook 2007 - Forgetting to be default mail client

  • Raj
    Aug 16, 2006 at 7:23 pm

    My Outlook 2007 won’t display the text of my new e-mail messages. It imported all of the old ones fine, and will still download attachments, but it will not render the text of incoming e-mails. Have you heard of this problem before? Any idea what to do?

    You mentioned a “refresh” for Outlook 2007. Is that an update? If so, can you link me to it?

  • Raj
    Aug 16, 2006 at 7:35 pm

    I looked on the Office 2007 page and didn’t see anything.

  • Graham
    Aug 16, 2006 at 8:46 pm

    Hi
    I am having a similar problem with file ExSec 32 dll is incompatible with microsoft office outlook.
    Also no default mail client or the current mail client cannot fulfill the message required,please run microsoft office outlook mail and set it as your default client.

    This seems to happen after a recent automatic microsoft download/fix?
    Any ideas?

    Regards
    Graham
    Tan-us

  • Eric
    Aug 21, 2006 at 11:53 pm

    Same here,
    I run outlook 2007 beta 2 on vista 5384 and I cannot set outlook to be the default client, It always tries to launch Windows mail when I try to use send to -> mail receipient in windows explorer.

    Keep me updated

  • Michael
    Aug 22, 2006 at 10:34 pm

    I just downloaded an installed the 2007 Outlook beta 2 and I have the same problem as Raj–the program will not render or show the text in any new messages but attachements and old meggages show up just fine?

    Any thoughts?

  • Fabio
    Sep 5, 2006 at 2:51 pm

    I had the same problem of text not showing in mail message. Turns out it was my antivirus’ pluging not compatible with office 12. I disabled the plugin and everything is back to normal.

  • Michael
    Sep 5, 2006 at 5:33 pm

    I was using AVG and the email scanner plug-in is not compatible. Initially I disabled the plug-in but left the box for “scan outgoing mail” checked. At this point the incoming looked good, but outgoing was blank. I found out that even with the plug-in disabled I had to uncheck BOTH boxes for scanning incoming and outgoing mail in the AVG program. Since I figured that out, all is well. I really like the Outlook Beta and have not had other problems.

  • tim
    Sep 8, 2006 at 7:06 pm

    I HAVE THE SAME PROBLEM AS MENTIONED ABOVE. OUTLOOK 2007 INSTANT SEARCH AND DESKTOP SEARCH WILL FIND ALL OF MY OLD E-MAIL BUT NOT ONE OF MY CURRENT EMAILS IN MY INBOX OR OUTBOX. I TRIED UNINSTALLING THE INSTANT SEARCH AND IT STILL DOES NOT WORK PROPERLY.

  • bob
    Mar 13, 2007 at 1:15 pm

    I have the same issue on final! Looks like its a serious bug….

  • leon
    Mar 17, 2008 at 8:03 pm

    And I thought i was going crazY!!!
    i can’t do it either it keeps sayin outlook is not my default mail client????
    But there is always a way!

  • katie
    Jun 4, 2008 at 3:37 pm

    -outlook 2007 refuses to stay the default mail client…instead of ccomcast mail! help. i can send emails just fine from outlook-but no new messages coming in-they keep going to comcast.

  • Dinfung
    Jun 23, 2008 at 12:14 am

    same problem here, outlook won’t be the default mail client. is really annoying to have the msg asking me. Also for me it just happen after 1 of the automatic update. Strange thing is that Firefox is doing the same thing for me, it won’t be default web bowser. I am guessing is a bug from 1 of the windows update.

  • Marc
    Aug 29, 2008 at 12:36 am

    SOLVED. Had the same problem and found the solution on another site. In Microsoft Office Tools, run the MS Office diagnostics program. Restart outlook and hopefully it work for you too.

  • Jerome Locson
    Aug 29, 2008 at 4:04 am

    Thanks Marc for sharing…

  • katie
    Aug 29, 2008 at 12:22 pm

    your solution seems much more scientific than mine…i just kept resetting the default- day after day after day and i think the program got tired of fighting with me…i no longer have the email problem. :)

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