How to make Hotmail the default email program

[banana]

I cannot seem to make my machine accept that I want Hotmail as my default
email program. I do the right thing;</p>
Select Tools | Internet Options from the Internet
  Explorer menu.
<p>Go to the Programs tab. </p>
Make sure Hotmail is selected for E-mail.
<p>Click OK. </p>
<p>but then ,when I try again, its back to Outlook Express --aarrgghhh ! What do
I do now?

[juicyjamie18]

I just tried it and it worked. Try clicking on apply, and then ok coz that's what I did.

[banana]

Ah JJ you gave me hope then -did i always forget to click on apply? maybe ... but alas.... no luck.

This has been driving me mad for ages .I have never used OE -so why does it love me so????

[Gandy]

Hotmail is not a program, it's a website.  You can configure Outlook express to download and send your hotmail messages to though but not for much longer unless you subscribe to their premium package

[banana]

I never even considered the fact that Hotmail  wasnt a program Gandy . Thanks for that .

But I wonder why it is listed as a program on the email tab - and why (when I used Opera ) did Opera mail open when that was first on the list?

Ah -computers -gotta love em.