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Title: Mom Needs Tech Help
Post by: Laxie on September 17, 2008, 02:57:39 PM
While visiting my Mom this summer, I used her computer once to log on to Yahoo mail.  Nothing unusual about that, until this email arrived today (2 months after the fact...sigh):

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Hi again,

 When folks send me an email and I go to open it in outlook,  a “laxie 5” screen comes up in yahoo...Any ideas?  It never happened before.

 Let me know

 
Xox

Mom

I'm counting on you lot to have the ideas because I can't, for the life of me, figure out why it would come up when she's getting her mail in Outlook.

Cheers!


 


Title: Re: Mom Needs Tech Help
Post by: kinboshi on September 17, 2008, 04:00:12 PM
She goes to check it in Outlook and a screen comes up in Yahoo?

Sounds like someone's a little confused.


Title: Re: Mom Needs Tech Help
Post by: Laxie on September 17, 2008, 04:20:19 PM
Sigh.  Tell me about it.  Will wait until she answers my first lot of questions to see if maybe she's wording things wrong. 


Title: Re: Mom Needs Tech Help
Post by: Dewi_cool on September 17, 2008, 04:21:28 PM
yahoo has taken over from outlook as default, needs to be changed back Programs>Default programs >set default program, I think


Title: Re: Mom Needs Tech Help
Post by: RED-DOG on September 18, 2008, 09:05:17 AM
I love how Americans have a mom instead of a mum. (mine is a mam btw)