On this Vista SP1 unit with Outlook 07...it works here, but it opens WLM to the Mail view rather than the newsgroup view.
My Vista default settings are as follows
Outlook - has all of its defaults
Windows Live Mail - has 1 out of 4 defaults, the only default is for .eml extension
Windows Live Mail(News) - has all its defaults(.nws extension and three protocols news, nntp, snews)
Windows Mail - has 0 of 3 defaults
Windows Mail(News) - has 0 or 4 defaults

Note: WLM also has a few other quirks on this unit when opened via the OL 'News' hotbutton.
a. The Quick views icon is present even though View/Layout/Folder pane/Quick Views is toggled off
b. All mail accounts are missing the inbox.



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...winston
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"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?