That's a common complaint. It seems to be hard-coded in Outlook.

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Gary VanderMolen, MS-MVP (Mail)


"Tim Mathews" wrote in message ...
Having added the "news" item on the "go" menu in Outlook, I want to be able
to open WLM as my newsreader from Outlook as I could do with Outlook
Express in XP and Windows Mail since getting Vista. I've tried everything I
can think of to make WLM the default newsreader but no matter what I do,
Outlook still opens Windows Mail when I click on "news" in the "go" drop
down menu.

Any ideas, anyone?