windows mail shortcut gone start menu

Why would the Windows Mail shortcut leave my start menu after installing Office 2007 on Vista 5342?

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"William [MVP]" wrote in message

Why would the Windows Mail shortcut leave my start menu after installing Office 2007 on Vista 5342?

Why would the Windows Mail shortcut leave my start menu after installing Office 2007 on Vista 5342?

Because Outlook takes over? -- Pierre Szwarc Paris, France PGP key ID 0x75B5779B ------------------------------------------------ Multitasking: Reading in the bathroom ! ------------------------------------------------
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<sarcasm> Ya, I especially like how it handles newgroups. </sarcasm>
I understand Outlook assuming the 'default email client' role, but eliminating the Windows Mail shortcut?
Unless I am missing something...
"Pierre Szwarc" wrote in message

Because Outlook takes over? -- Pierre Szwarc Paris, France PGP key ID 0x75B5779B ------------------------------------------------ Multitasking: Reading in the bathroom ! ------------------------------------------------
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Nope, that's basically it :o)
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--- Original message follows --- "William [MVP]" wrote in message

sarcasm> Ya, I especially like how it handles newgroups. </sarcasm
I understand Outlook assuming the 'default email client' role, but eliminating the Windows Mail shortcut?
Unless I am missing something...
"Pierre Szwarc" wrote in message Because Outlook takes over? -- Pierre Szwarc Paris, France PGP key ID 0x75B5779B ------------------------------------------------ Multitasking: Reading in the bathroom ! ------------------------------------------------
"William [MVP]" a écrit dans le message de news: eyjQp5vUGHA.2704@tk2msftngp13.phx.gbl... | Why would the Windows Mail shortcut leave my start menu after installing | Office 2007 on Vista 5342? |

I do have the Windows Mail system link on the top of the Start Menu. But, I can't find any Windows Mail shortcut in the Start Menu >All Programs hierarchy. It is also missing from the Quick Launch group. I haven't installed Office yet. So, it didn't have anything to do with it.
I wanted to check to see if the /newsonly switch still worked.
RandyO [JAG]
"William [MVP]" wrote in message

sarcasm> Ya, I especially like how it handles newgroups. </sarcasm
I understand Outlook assuming the 'default email client' role, but eliminating the Windows Mail shortcut?
Unless I am missing something...
"Pierre Szwarc" wrote in message Because Outlook takes over? -- Pierre Szwarc Paris, France PGP key ID 0x75B5779B ------------------------------------------------ Multitasking: Reading in the bathroom ! ------------------------------------------------
"William [MVP]" a écrit dans le message de news: eyjQp5vUGHA.2704@tk2msftngp13.phx.gbl... | Why would the Windows Mail shortcut leave my start menu after installing | Office 2007 on Vista 5342? |

Office takes over everything, especially when it updates (see www.oehelp.com/OETips.aspx#13)
With respect to the WinMail shortcut, there are two commands one can use to toggle on and off the shortcut:
shmgrate.exe OCInstallHideOE
shmgrate.exe OCInstallShowOE
You can guess which command does which. <VBG>
That should turn on and off the shortcut.
If Outlook gets installed, then you can do this to fix what Outlook did and if that doesn't work see the link above.
shmgrate.exe OCInstallReinstallOE
or
shmgrate.exe OCInstallUserConfigOE
I'm not sure the difference between those two.
steve

"Randy Byrne [JAG]" wrote in message

I do have the Windows Mail system link on the top of the Start Menu. But, I can't find any Windows Mail shortcut in the Start Menu >All Programs hierarchy. It is also missing from the Quick Launch group. I haven't installed Office yet. So, it didn't have anything to do with it.
I wanted to check to see if the /newsonly switch still worked.
RandyO [JAG]
"William [MVP]" wrote in message sarcasm> Ya, I especially like how it handles newgroups. </sarcasm
I understand Outlook assuming the 'default email client' role, but eliminating the Windows Mail shortcut?
Unless I am missing something...
"Pierre Szwarc" wrote in message Because Outlook takes over? -- Pierre Szwarc Paris, France PGP key ID 0x75B5779B ------------------------------------------------ Multitasking: Reading in the bathroom ! ------------------------------------------------
"William [MVP]" a écrit dans le message de news: eyjQp5vUGHA.2704@tk2msftngp13.phx.gbl... | Why would the Windows Mail shortcut leave my start menu after installing | Office 2007 on Vista 5342? |

"William [MVP]" wrote in message

Why would the Windows Mail shortcut leave my start menu after installing Office 2007 on Vista 5342?

It's because the Office Team seems to think that once Outlook is installed, Outlook must be wanted to be used as the default email program.
It's been doing it this way forever it seems. Every update for Office removes Outlook Express as the default email program. Royal PITA to have to change it because they think they know what I want.