Uninstalling Outlook breaks Windows Mail as default mail program

> Update: I installed Thunderbird, set the default email program back to
> Windows Mail again and un-installed Thunderbird.
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> LOW AND BEHOLD, emailing from other applications works again! The new
> message windows pops up like normal again.
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> I have many brand new broke Windows Mail machines. Therefor, I will do a
> registry dump on another machine, install/uninstall Thunderbird and
> compare the registry changes. Let's see what happens.
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> -eric wood
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> "Eric Wood" <[email protected]> wrote in message
> news:%[email protected]..

>> After reading this:
>> http://forums.techarena.in/showthread.php?t=675971
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>> I too have discovered that uninstalling Outlook breaks email integration.
>> Even fixing the "Control->Panel->Default Programs" settings doesn't fix
>> everything.
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>> If I Start->Run and type " mailto:[email protected] ", the new message
>> window still comes up as usual.
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>> However, Emailing from Acrobat Reader 7.0, I get a "Acrobat is unable to
>> connect to your email program" error.
>>
>> Beforehand, with Outlook still install, everything seems to work. I
>> guess that's what I get when I choose not to buy the 60 eval version of
>> MS Office!
>> Ouch!
>>
>> -eric wood
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