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"Open your email inbox" button in WLM launches in a browser

Sep 2, 2010 2:08AM PDT

I use Windows Live Messenger and Windows Live Mail. Until yesterday, when I clicked on the "Open your email inbox" button in Messenger, it opened Windows Live Mail and I could sync my folders. Yesterday, I signed into another Hotmail account using Firefox, and for some reason this Hotmail account was added to my list of accounts in Windows Live Mail. I deleted that second account from the list, but now, when I click on the 'open your email inbox' button, it opens my original (main) Hotmail in Firefox, not Windows Live Mail. I don't want to use a browser, I want to use Windows Live Mail, but I have searched through the options in both programs and have been unable to find a tickbox which says something like 'Launch Windows Live Mail when clicking on "Open your email inbox" button in Windows Live Messenger'. I am using Vista. Can anybody help?

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I AGREE !!!!!
Mar 23, 2011 9:19AM PDT

I want WLM to open through live messenger also but it opens in a browser....what's going on... I want it back !

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Got it solved guys!!
Jul 23, 2012 10:14AM PDT

I had the same problem. I would sign into messenger live and then click on my inbox where I would be taken to the hotmail sign in... I had recently started using more than one browser because internet explorer had issues with my google account. Therefore internet explorer was not my "default"browser. So try this...

Open internet explorer. Click on "tools". Click on "internet options". Click on "programs". Click on "make internet explorer the default browser". Hit "apply" and close the window. Close explorer and go back to messenger and click inbox. You should be back in business!!