Mail continues to switch me to Outlook - how do I disable?

Did you switch your e-mail to the one you wanted it to be before you deleted the one Microsoft wants you to have if not you may have to go back to a previous date to recover .

I tried this now all my emails seem to have disappeared. Not sure where they have gone?

Thing is, whatever you find here is temporarily useful. Microsoft just wouldn't listen to people to not change stuff to be more complicated than necessary. What happened to the Windows 10 UI? Windows 11 said "F@@@ Windows 10's perfect UI and do what we, as a company think "people like most". Changing stuff that already was perfect to start with didn't even need to be changed. Why are the most handy features being removed, like F@@@ing right click eject and a single right click menu without extra fluff? Because nowadays Microsoft owns us and we don't own Microsoft products anymore, no matter what we have to say about it. Yes, even with a fully legal licence directly from Microsoft.

Oh yeah, that's right Microsoft. I just circumvented the common "bad word censor filter", and I'm proud of it!

Hi I also found another way to stop outlook from auto installing, after I recently ran windows update, found as soon as I opened mail it took me to outlook, immediately closed and uninstalled outlook, I opened mail again and that damn outlook reinstalled, so every time outlook uninstalled it kept reinstalling, so I deleted Outlook update in the registry, now have mail back permanently, with no pesky "try Outlook" pop up in mail, but do have the try Outlook button still there, strange thing as well I ran windows store update and my mail app had an update so updated, so MS must be still supporting Mail for now.

My fix: [-HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\WindowsUpdate\Orchestrator\UScheduler_Oobe\OutlookUpdate]

I went to this location and deleted the OutlookUpdate file, I checked my mail app after pc reboot and all ok up to press, few days now now issues.

Hi, everyone, I find a way.

to DELETE a json file with address

C:\Users[!You Computer Name!]\AppData\Local\Packages\microsoft.windowscommunicationsapps_8wekyb3d8bbwe\LocalState\Migration\settings.json

I delete it and prevent Windows Mail switch to Outlook.

I tried it today and it worked at least. If it fails in the future, I might replace the json with an only-read, same-name and empty file.

Kudos to everyone who sees this post, we have the same taste

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This worked for me also. On a similar topic theres also a file in the same folder called 'callback'. The coders in here would be able to decipher this:

{"migration":{"oobeFunnelEvent":"OobeFunnelComplete","status":"ToggleOff","toggleOffTime":1718890755602,"legacyApp":"Universal"},"toggleBack":{"permaToggle":true,"allowAutoToggle":true}}

Im no coder, so according to chat gpt this means:

This JSON structure appears to be a configuration or state object related to a software application or system feature, likely used for tracking and controlling the status of a specific feature or migration process. Here's a breakdown of its components:

1. migration:
   • oobeFunnelEvent: "OobeFunnelComplete" – This indicates an event named "OobeFunnelComplete", which likely signifies the completion of an out-of-box experience (OOBE) funnel process.
   • status: "ToggleOff" – The status of the migration process is set to "ToggleOff", meaning the feature or process is currently turned off.
   • toggleOffTime: 1718890755602 – This is a timestamp indicating when the feature was turned off. The number represents milliseconds since the Unix epoch (1 January 1970).
   • legacyApp: "Universal" – This specifies that the legacy application associated with this migration is named "Universal".
2. toggleBack:
   • permaToggle: true – This indicates that the feature or process is permanently toggled (enabled or disabled).
   • allowAutoToggle: true – This signifies that automatic toggling (turning the feature on or off) is allowed.

In summary, this JSON object is used to manage the state of a feature or migration process within an application, tracking the completion of an OOBE funnel, the status of a toggle (currently off), and specifying conditions for toggling the feature back on.

.... AKA forcing us to toggle it on. This may be another option to change the coding but the origional method worked fine... for now. Thanks dude.