I've noticed the same thing opening WLM with the /News switch, it opens
without email accounts, but shows the default email inbox folder which you
cannot return to, if you switch to a different folder. It's nice to see WLM
can be set as Outlook's newsreader; the farthest I've experimented was to
see if WLM actually had a "News Only" mode.

Hal
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"...winston" wrote in message
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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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"Tim Mathews" wrote in message
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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?