The post originated stand-alone from Windows Mail and was posted to the the Outlook and WLM newsgroup.

One doesn't post from Outlook, think of the 'News' button in OL as a item that opens a different application(similar to a url for
IE, a news:// link in an html document, etc). The 'News' button can be added to the Outlook Menu bar(File-Edit etc..it is
normally place on the Go drop-down menu) or it can be added to the ToolBar(akin to adding an available command by customizing the
Word or Excel toolbar)


The OL 'news' button works for me in OL2007 on Vista SP1, but WLM has a few quirks(see earlier response) when WLM is not already
open. If WLM is opened, the OL News button switches focus to the current open WLM window(without any of those quirks mentioned).

Does ProcMon provide information on customizing a toolbar in Excel, Word, etc..?


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Having added the "news" item on the "go" menu in Outlook,


Since you are cross-posting to WLMail it may help to explain how
you did that? Can you add other arbitrary things to that menu?
Then you could add a command line which does WLMail.exe /News ; )


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?


Use ProcMon and find out what the implementation is. ; )


Good luck

Robert Aldwinckle
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