Screen Message on booting in XP

[bookend]

A month or so back, I installed a new hard drive on my PC. Since then, within a couple of minutes of booting-up, a message window appears on screen with the title "Microsoft Outlook".

The message says " Either there is no default mail client or the current mail client cannot fulfill the messaging request. Please run Microsoft Outlook and set it as the default mail client". I've always used Outlook Express as my email client on the PC and have never had any problems sending or receiving emails and OE is my default email client.

Has anyone any idea how I can stop this message from appearing as its beginning to annoy me now. I would add that once I close the window using the X on the top RH side, the window does not appear until I reboot next time.

Many thanks

[tellboy]

When you re-installed Microsoft Office from the disk you did not deselect Outlook.
This will try to take over as the mail client.
Put the disk in again and reinstall Office untick the box for Outlook.

[bookend]

Sorry, I should have made it clearer. What I did was to add a new 120Gb Seagate drive to the existing 40Gb Seagate drive on the system.

I used a couple of the utilities Seagate provides, one of which I think was called Seatools, to copy the contents of the old C drive to the new drive. The utility then, at my request, made the new drive the C drive and the old drive has become the F drive.

The computer boots from the C drive.

Could this be the cause of the problem and if so, what do I need to do now?

[tellboy]

I would still go through the same procedure although you may have to remove your Microsoft Office through Control Panel.
If you do not actually have the Office Disk then try this.
Go to Control Panel- Add Remove Programs-Windows Components- Uncheck Outlook Express -Reboot- Do same thing but check Outlook Express to add it again. This should make Outlook Express the Default Mail Handler.
Save your Address Book first in Outlook Express.