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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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Try this: delete or rename in %AppData%\Local\Packages\microsoft.windowscommunicationsapps_8wekyb3d8bbwe\LocalState Migration folder. Then create file "Migration" and make it Readonly. Must help.
You can't go to Settings - then click Apps and scroll down to " Outlook new" -click on it - click uninstall - then a pop-up reads "this will uninstall all outlook .." then click uninstall again.
When it's uninstalled, my previous Email program comes back.
I got fed up with this constant attempt to switch me to Outlook just to use the Calendar app and discovered that Mozilla Thunderbird, which is free and which I already have and use for my email, has a an even better calendar feature than Microsoft Calendar. So I copied all the recurring events from Microsoft Calendar then dumped Calendar.
A comment was made in this thread that some felt the software developers who created Calendar never use a calendar app. I feel the same way about Microsoft Word. Do any of the developers actually write? My guess is no.
I ended up removing Outlook and trying to go back to mail but, it wouldn’t work. I am now using Thunderbird on my desktop and Apple’s Mail on my iPads and iPhone.
I may end up with Apple for everything and say goodbye to Microsoft but, they won’t care. Bill Gates has enough money.
Thank you very much!
This worked for me on Windows 10.