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About every 2- 3weeks, the Mail app continues to automatically switch me to Outlook, without asking me. And I have to manually switch back to Mail.
I run an HP Pavilion laptop with Windows 11.
I'm aware that Mail will eventually be discontinued, however, that's not for another year. I plan to use Mail for the next year, since Outlook currently is very difficult for me to use. However, Mail continually tries to suggest I switch, and then forces me to switch. This has happened over and over again for the last few months.
What can I do to disable Mail from switching me to Outlook?
Using New Outlook on Windows for professional communication and productivity
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I deleted the new outlook app and it fixed it originally it was changing it every time i opened the mail app. Now it stays on original app yeah.
Hope this Helps
Dan
if you reset it seems to delete all the data wow. NOT what i want. MS has too much power
Today Windows is switching the Windows Mail to the new Outlook EVERY time I start the Windows Mail App, and tends to stop showing the notification of new emails where there should be. This is a tragedy, as a company like Microsoft would use this pathetic approach to "force" their user to unwillingly switch to an App that is apparently awful. The new Outlook can't even let me log into my account and set up everything, while the professional Windows customer service helped me to set them up for more than one hour without success. I would suggest using Thunderbird. The Email function is way better than the pathetic thing. The only minor thing is that you need to set up calendar sync manually, which might need some search over the internet.
ditto! its annoying and i dont like using fancy outlook
I just tried the same thing and uninstalled Outlook. Mail worked for 30 seconds before closing and reinstalling the monster again. Outlook then had the gall to ask if I wanted to pin it to the taskbar.
What a nasty program. Shame on Microsoft for forcing this on everyone.