Startup Issue

Windows 7 Ultimate SP1 (x64)
Office 2007

No, I do not have the installer CDs for either Windows or Office.

I brought forward Schedule+ successively from Windows 95 to Windows 98
to Windows XP and finally to Windows 7. This is version 7.0a (997.1).
I am retired and not in any work environment. Schedule+ works just fine
for me. I have looked at other calendar applications, and they all seem
far more complicated. I especially do not like those that insist on
keeping an open window on my desktop.

Since updating to Windows 7 Ultimate from a prior variety of Windows 7
(done as part of recovery from a virus that prevented booting), the
launching of Schedule+ is temporarily blocked with an Microsoft Office
Outlook popup that says:
Either there is no default mail client or the current mail client
cannot fulfill the messaging request. Please run Microsoft Office
Outlook and set it as the default mail client.
I can dismiss the popup by selecting its OK button, after which
Schedule+ launches and runs okay. This popup did not appear with my
prior variety of Windows 7.

I do not use Outlook. I do not like Outlook, and I do not want to use
it. My default mail client is Thunderbird. There should be no
messaging relative to Schedule+.

Is there some way to stop this popup from appearing and stop it from
blocking Schedule+ from launching?

--
David E. Ross

Why do we tolerate political leaders who
spend more time belittling hungry children
than they do trying to fix the problem of
hunger? http://mazon.org/

On Wed, 9 Sep 2015 13:11:13 -0700, "David E. Ross"
wrote:

Since updating to Windows 7 Ultimate from a prior variety of Windows 7
(done as part of recovery from a virus that prevented booting), the
launching of Schedule+ is temporarily blocked with an Microsoft Office
Outlook popup that says:
Either there is no default mail client or the current mail client
cannot fulfill the messaging request. Please run Microsoft Office
Outlook and set it as the default mail client.
I can dismiss the popup by selecting its OK button, after which
Schedule+ launches and runs okay. This popup did not appear with my
prior variety of Windows 7.

Is there some way to stop this popup from appearing and stop it from
blocking Schedule+ from launching?

I believe you asked about this before, right? Has the issue been unresolved
all this time, or was there something that worked for a while?

--

Char Jackson

David E. Ross wrote:

I do not use Outlook. I do not like Outlook, and I do not want to use
it. My default mail client is Thunderbird.

Then why not uninstall Outlook? Go into the Programs applet, select MS
Office, [right]click on Change, and deselect Outlook in the tree to
effect a custom install. No point installing components you will not
use. I have no need for Access on my home PC so I deselected it.

David E. Ross wrote:
Windows 7 Ultimate SP1 (x64)
Office 2007

No, I do not have the installer CDs for either Windows or Office.

I brought forward Schedule+ successively from Windows 95 to Windows 98
to Windows XP and finally to Windows 7. This is version 7.0a (997.1).
I am retired and not in any work environment. Schedule+ works just fine
for me. I have looked at other calendar applications, and they all seem
far more complicated. I especially do not like those that insist on
keeping an open window on my desktop.

Since updating to Windows 7 Ultimate from a prior variety of Windows 7
(done as part of recovery from a virus that prevented booting), the
launching of Schedule+ is temporarily blocked with an Microsoft Office
Outlook popup that says:
Either there is no default mail client or the current mail client
cannot fulfill the messaging request. Please run Microsoft Office
Outlook and set it as the default mail client.
I can dismiss the popup by selecting its OK button, after which
Schedule+ launches and runs okay. This popup did not appear with my
prior variety of Windows 7.

I do not use Outlook. I do not like Outlook, and I do not want to use
it. My default mail client is Thunderbird. There should be no
messaging relative to Schedule+.

Is there some way to stop this popup from appearing and stop it from
blocking Schedule+ from launching?


Keeping a calendar consists of two parts.

1) The local calendar
2) Sharing the calendar with colleagues.
(public and private entries, for blocking time)

It sounds like this program you are using, is
checking to see if the infrastructure is present
to share the calendar. It might start with
your Contact list, and use whatever transport
is used for sharing the calendar.

Maybe this Schedule+ has a setting to keep
the entire calendar private ?

Some of the history is here, including version info.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Schedule_Plus

My guess is, the program made an open-ended OLE2 call
to the "mail agent", hoping to find it's magic
carpet ride. And since you haven't set your email
default to something useful, the notification appears.

Paul

On 9/9/2015 3:17 PM, Char Jackson wrote:
On Wed, 9 Sep 2015 13:11:13 -0700, "David E. Ross"
wrote:

Since updating to Windows 7 Ultimate from a prior variety of Windows 7
(done as part of recovery from a virus that prevented booting), the
launching of Schedule+ is temporarily blocked with an Microsoft Office
Outlook popup that says:
Either there is no default mail client or the current mail client
cannot fulfill the messaging request. Please run Microsoft Office
Outlook and set it as the default mail client.
I can dismiss the popup by selecting its OK button, after which
Schedule+ launches and runs okay. This popup did not appear with my
prior variety of Windows 7.

Is there some way to stop this popup from appearing and stop it from
blocking Schedule+ from launching?

I believe you asked about this before, right? Has the issue been unresolved
all this time, or was there something that worked for a while?


This is my same old problem, which was never fixed. Since it is
annoying rather than serious, I let it go until now. I was hoping
someone might have some new insight about this.

--
David E. Ross

Why do we tolerate political leaders who
spend more time belittling hungry children
than they do trying to fix the problem of
hunger? http://mazon.org/

On 9/9/2015 3:24 PM, VanguardLH wrote:
David E. Ross wrote:

I do not use Outlook. I do not like Outlook, and I do not want to use
it. My default mail client is Thunderbird.

Then why not uninstall Outlook? Go into the Programs applet, select MS
Office, [right]click on Change, and deselect Outlook in the tree to
effect a custom install. No point installing components you will not
use. I have no need for Access on my home PC so I deselected it.


I have tried that repeatedly. When I select Microsoft Office Enterprise
2007 and then Change, I get a window with three radio buttons: I select
the radio button for "Add or Remove Features" and then the Continue
button. On Microsoft Office Outlook, I select "Not Available" and then
Continue.

After a few moments, I get a window "Browse for Folder". At the top is
the statement: "Setup cannot find
Groove.en-us\Groove.en-us\GrooveMUI.xml. Browse to a valid installation
source, and then click OK." After doing a search for GrooveMUI.xml and
finding several, I navigate to one of them and select the OK button.
Not all of the GrooveMUI.xml files, however, are what is needed. When I
finally find a useable file, I get the same "Browse for Folder" but this
time asking for a different file. After several repetitions, I give up.

--
David E. Ross

Why do we tolerate political leaders who
spend more time belittling hungry children
than they do trying to fix the problem of
hunger? http://mazon.org/

David E. Ross wrote:

VanguardLH wrote:

David E. Ross wrote:

I do not use Outlook. I do not like Outlook, and I do not want to use
it. My default mail client is Thunderbird.

Then why not uninstall Outlook?

I have tried that repeatedly. When I select Microsoft Office Enterprise
2007 and then Change, I get a window with three radio buttons: I select
the radio button for "Add or Remove Features" and then the Continue
button. On Microsoft Office Outlook, I select "Not Available" and then
Continue.

After a few moments, I get a window "Browse for Folder". At the top is
the statement: "Setup cannot find
Groove.en-us\Groove.en-us\GrooveMUI.xml.

Had you previously removed Groove using someone's suggestion of renaming
the grooveex.dll file and maybe deleting some registry entries? This is
not the new Groove (Groove Networks acquired by Microsoft) that is about
music. This is the old Groove for corroboration features (renamed to
Sharepoint Workspace after Microsoft acquired Groove Network).

http://geekswithblogs.net/SabotsShel.../16/69679.aspx

Although you deselect Sharepoint in the custom install tree, Microsoft
refuses to not have it installed and embedded in their product. You
will deselect Sharepoint (worthless to home users), exit the changed
setup, but the first time you load Outlook it then runs the installer to
put Sharepoint back in. Assholes. Besides Outlook wanting the Groove
extension, Groove is also an extension added to Internet Explorer. I
was able to edit the registry entries so that extension was not only
disabled in IE but also not listed in IE.

I'm getting so sick of Microsoft continually trying to push features or
programs that I won't be using and have supposedly not installed. I
still get Windows updates offered for Lync and Skype and OneDrive
Business aka Skydrive Pro (which is NOT the same as OneDrive [no
postfix] cloud drive sync client) that are not installed along with some
signon crap updates that only applies if I'm in a domain. Oh yes,
Microsoft knows what is best for you. Here's a toolbelt that you must
always wear with pockets designed for specific tools that you don't have
and don't want.

Browse to a valid installation
source, and then click OK." After doing a search for GrooveMUI.xml and
finding several, I navigate to one of them and select the OK button.
Not all of the GrooveMUI.xml files, however, are what is needed. When I
finally find a useable file, I get the same "Browse for Folder" but this
time asking for a different file. After several repetitions, I give up.

I don't know what the Enterprise edition of MS Office 2007 has. For MS
Office 2013 Pro, I would try deselecting the following (mark "not
available"):

- Microsoft Access - Business connectivity ...
If you don't use it, you don't need it.
- Microsoft Infopath (all of it marked "not available")
Discontinued in Jan 2014, requires Infopath or Sharepoint server.
- Microsoft Lync (IM client)
Replaced by Skype for Business).
- Microsoft OneDrive for Business
NOT the same as OneDrive, requires a Sharepoint server.
- Outlook Add-ins - Sharepoint blah blah
Should be included when you select "not available" for all Outlook.
- Office Shared Features - Business connectivity services
More Sharepoint, um, "stuff".
- Office Tools - Telemetry
See https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/down....aspx?id=34991
to determine if you need this.
- Office Tools - Sharepoint Foundation (OWSSUPP.DLL)
You can try to remove this. Looks like it worked until you either
rerun Change for a custom install or run an Office component that
reruns the install that re-installs this useless-to-home-user crap.

Alas, some may come back when you start an Office component or when you
load IE that tries to find the worthless-to-home-users extensions. I
did several file renames and registry edits to get rid of Groove,
Sharepoint, and OneDrive for Business (Skydrive Pro) but just trying to
load Outlook forced rerunning the installer to reconstitute some of
them. The program demanded their presence and forced their reinstall.

When you get the "Browse for folder" dialog, see if using SysInternals'
Process Explorer will show you which process has the handle to that
window. Click on the spider web toolbar icon and then drag it to and
click in the window. PE will highlight which process owns that window.

Groove (corrobation integration, not the Groove music thing) was
included in several versions of MS Office (although it was stupid or an
oversight to include a discontinued product in Office 2013). See if the
following helps:

http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/o...4-039ce247cba5

Running groovemui.msi might show if that is the installer that hangs on
the "Browse for file" dialog, or running it from the installation media
might work as the same folder containing groovemui.msi has the
groovemui.xml file. See if running groovemui.msi works fixes whatever
corruption the installer is bitching about when you uninstall Outlook.

On 9/9/2015 4:30 PM, Stormin' Norman wrote:
On Wed, 9 Sep 2015 16:16:11 -0700, "David E. Ross" wrote:

On 9/9/2015 3:17 PM, Char Jackson wrote:
On Wed, 9 Sep 2015 13:11:13 -0700, "David E. Ross"
wrote:

Since updating to Windows 7 Ultimate from a prior variety of Windows 7
(done as part of recovery from a virus that prevented booting), the
launching of Schedule+ is temporarily blocked with an Microsoft Office
Outlook popup that says:
Either there is no default mail client or the current mail client
cannot fulfill the messaging request. Please run Microsoft Office
Outlook and set it as the default mail client.
I can dismiss the popup by selecting its OK button, after which
Schedule+ launches and runs okay. This popup did not appear with my
prior variety of Windows 7.

Is there some way to stop this popup from appearing and stop it from
blocking Schedule+ from launching?

I believe you asked about this before, right? Has the issue been unresolved
all this time, or was there something that worked for a while?


This is my same old problem, which was never fixed. Since it is
annoying rather than serious, I let it go until now. I was hoping
someone might have some new insight about this.

Have you seen this?

https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/kb/813745


I just now tried both the manual deletion of the registry item and also
the FixIt method. Neither solved my problem.

--
David E. Ross

Why do we tolerate political leaders who
spend more time belittling hungry children
than they do trying to fix the problem of
hunger? http://mazon.org/

On 9/9/2015 1:11 PM, David E. Ross wrote:
Windows 7 Ultimate SP1 (x64)
Office 2007

No, I do not have the installer CDs for either Windows or Office.

I brought forward Schedule+ successively from Windows 95 to Windows 98
to Windows XP and finally to Windows 7. This is version 7.0a (997.1).
I am retired and not in any work environment. Schedule+ works just fine
for me. I have looked at other calendar applications, and they all seem
far more complicated. I especially do not like those that insist on
keeping an open window on my desktop.

Since updating to Windows 7 Ultimate from a prior variety of Windows 7
(done as part of recovery from a virus that prevented booting), the
launching of Schedule+ is temporarily blocked with an Microsoft Office
Outlook popup that says:
Either there is no default mail client or the current mail client
cannot fulfill the messaging request. Please run Microsoft Office
Outlook and set it as the default mail client.
I can dismiss the popup by selecting its OK button, after which
Schedule+ launches and runs okay. This popup did not appear with my
prior variety of Windows 7.

I do not use Outlook. I do not like Outlook, and I do not want to use
it. My default mail client is Thunderbird. There should be no
messaging relative to Schedule+.

Is there some way to stop this popup from appearing and stop it from
blocking Schedule+ from launching?


While using FixIt per the Web site suggested by Stormin' Norman, it kept
requesting files very much like my prior attempts to remove Outlook.
This time, I did not give up. I was determine that, as long as I could
find the files -- using Everything from http://www.voidtools.com/ -- I
would continue the process.

While FixIt did not fix my problem, the files it requested allowed me to
use Programs and Features to mark Outlook as unavailable. Then, my
problem went away.

--
David E. Ross

Why do we tolerate political leaders who
spend more time belittling hungry children
than they do trying to fix the problem of
hunger? http://mazon.org/

David E. Ross wrote:

Windows 7 Ultimate SP1 (x64)
Office 2007

No, I do not have the installer CDs for either Windows or Office.

I brought forward Schedule+ successively from Windows 95 to Windows 98
to Windows XP and finally to Windows 7. This is version 7.0a (997.1).
I am retired and not in any work environment. Schedule+ works just fine
for me. I have looked at other calendar applications, and they all seem
far more complicated. I especially do not like those that insist on
keeping an open window on my desktop.

Since updating to Windows 7 Ultimate from a prior variety of Windows 7
(done as part of recovery from a virus that prevented booting), the
launching of Schedule+ is temporarily blocked with an Microsoft Office
Outlook popup that says:
Either there is no default mail client or the current mail client
cannot fulfill the messaging request. Please run Microsoft Office
Outlook and set it as the default mail client.
I can dismiss the popup by selecting its OK button, after which
Schedule+ launches and runs okay. This popup did not appear with my
prior variety of Windows 7.

I do not use Outlook. I do not like Outlook, and I do not want to use
it. My default mail client is Thunderbird. There should be no
messaging relative to Schedule+.

Is there some way to stop this popup from appearing and stop it from
blocking Schedule+ from launching?

Didn't "bringing over" Schedule+ to Windows 7 (or any version of Windows
after 9x) require you do to some registry editing or toting over files
other than just those for Schedule+? A Windows update could step on the
registry setup for Schedule+. Something that stepped on mapi32.dll
could cause an incompatibility.

What is configured in Windows (not Thunderbird) as the default e-mail
client? In the Start menu's search box, enter "default programs".
Under "Default Programs - Select your default programs", see if
Thunderbird is listed. If so, select it and click "Set this program as
default". If Thunderbird is not listed, go to "Default programs -
Associate a file type or protocol with a program". The protocols are
way at the end of the list. Select "MailTo (Url:mailto)" and change to
Thunderbird. I don't have a non-Outlook e-mail program to test but I
would think once you associate Thunderbird with mailto that you could go
back to "Default programs - Select your default programs" to see
Thunderbird listed there and then click on "Set this program as
default".

Schedule+ was a component of old Outlook. Schedule+ used the MAPI
support added by Outlook. Windows back then didn't include MAPI
support, not even SimpleMAPI. Later it included sendmapi.dll that
contains the command set for SimpleMAPI. Outlook replaces that with the
full MAPI client (aka ExtendedMAPI). So, back then, you had to install
Outlook (not Outlook Express) to get MAPI support for Schedule+ to work.

If you use Nirsoft's FileTypesMan utility and look at the .mapimail
association, it should point to sendmail.dll which does the work of
sending e-mail. It call functions from mapi32.dll. Each e-mail program
can uses its own mapi32.dll lib but a problem can occur if it steps on
the default one under the system32 or SysWOW64 folders. If it uses its
own mapi32.dll lib then it should put it under its own install folder
and either directly call it from there or register its version in the
registry to find it that way.

http://kb.mozillazine.org/MAPI_Support
"Outlooks calendar is implemented as a MAPI provider, so it needs to
call the original MAPI32.DLL. This will break if you make Thunderbird
the default email client."

So I'm wondering if Thunderbird installs its own mapi32.dll lib file and
even overwrites the one under the sys folder(s).

When did you install Outlook? Before or after you migrated Schedule+
(and it was working without prompting about default e-mail client)?
When did you install Thunderbird? Before or after you migrated to
Schedule+? You could try running their suggestion of fixmapi.exe.

David E. Ross wrote on 09/09/2015 10:38 PM:
On 9/9/2015 1:11 PM, David E. Ross wrote:
Windows 7 Ultimate SP1 (x64)
Office 2007

No, I do not have the installer CDs for either Windows or Office.

I brought forward Schedule+ successively from Windows 95 to Windows 98
to Windows XP and finally to Windows 7. This is version 7.0a (997.1).
I am retired and not in any work environment. Schedule+ works just fine
for me. I have looked at other calendar applications, and they all seem
far more complicated. I especially do not like those that insist on
keeping an open window on my desktop.

Since updating to Windows 7 Ultimate from a prior variety of Windows 7
(done as part of recovery from a virus that prevented booting), the
launching of Schedule+ is temporarily blocked with an Microsoft Office
Outlook popup that says:
Either there is no default mail client or the current mail client
cannot fulfill the messaging request. Please run Microsoft Office
Outlook and set it as the default mail client.
I can dismiss the popup by selecting its OK button, after which
Schedule+ launches and runs okay. This popup did not appear with my
prior variety of Windows 7.

I do not use Outlook. I do not like Outlook, and I do not want to use
it. My default mail client is Thunderbird. There should be no
messaging relative to Schedule+.

Is there some way to stop this popup from appearing and stop it from
blocking Schedule+ from launching?


While using FixIt per the Web site suggested by Stormin' Norman, it kept
requesting files very much like my prior attempts to remove Outlook.
This time, I did not give up. I was determine that, as long as I could
find the files -- using Everything from http://www.voidtools.com/ -- I
would continue the process.

While FixIt did not fix my problem, the files it requested allowed me to
use Programs and Features to mark Outlook as unavailable. Then, my
problem went away.

So effectively it seems your problem was caused a non-supported Win95/98
era application that called Outlook expecting to see a supported Outlook
97 version on an o/s (Win7) that neither supports the scheduler or the
necessary version of Outlook....

--
...winston
msft mvp windows experience

On 9/9/2015 10:21 PM, . . .winston wrote:
David E. Ross wrote on 09/09/2015 10:38 PM:
On 9/9/2015 1:11 PM, David E. Ross wrote:
Windows 7 Ultimate SP1 (x64)
Office 2007

No, I do not have the installer CDs for either Windows or Office.

I brought forward Schedule+ successively from Windows 95 to Windows 98
to Windows XP and finally to Windows 7. This is version 7.0a (997.1).
I am retired and not in any work environment. Schedule+ works just fine
for me. I have looked at other calendar applications, and they all seem
far more complicated. I especially do not like those that insist on
keeping an open window on my desktop.

Since updating to Windows 7 Ultimate from a prior variety of Windows 7
(done as part of recovery from a virus that prevented booting), the
launching of Schedule+ is temporarily blocked with an Microsoft Office
Outlook popup that says:
Either there is no default mail client or the current mail client
cannot fulfill the messaging request. Please run Microsoft Office
Outlook and set it as the default mail client.
I can dismiss the popup by selecting its OK button, after which
Schedule+ launches and runs okay. This popup did not appear with my
prior variety of Windows 7.

I do not use Outlook. I do not like Outlook, and I do not want to use
it. My default mail client is Thunderbird. There should be no
messaging relative to Schedule+.

Is there some way to stop this popup from appearing and stop it from
blocking Schedule+ from launching?


While using FixIt per the Web site suggested by Stormin' Norman, it kept
requesting files very much like my prior attempts to remove Outlook.
This time, I did not give up. I was determine that, as long as I could
find the files -- using Everything from http://www.voidtools.com/ -- I
would continue the process.

While FixIt did not fix my problem, the files it requested allowed me to
use Programs and Features to mark Outlook as unavailable. Then, my
problem went away.

So effectively it seems your problem was caused a non-supported Win95/98
era application that called Outlook expecting to see a supported Outlook
97 version on an o/s (Win7) that neither supports the scheduler or the
necessary version of Outlook....


Yes, and all this worked just fine under some variety of Windows 7 until
a virus made it necessary to reinstall Windows 7. The prior variety of
Windows 7 was NOT Window 7 Ultimate SP1 (x64), but the latter was
installed to correct the virus problem.

My PC has two physical hard drives. Before the virus, these were C for
software and D for data. The PC guru who reinstalled Windows 7 used
EaseUS to divided what had been the C-drive into a C partition and a D
partition, both for software. C then contained Windows and those
applications that insist on being on C. D contained all the other
applications. The other hard drive was re-designated the J drive and
continued to contain data, which fortunately was not impacted by the
virus and thus did not have to be recreated.

Unfortunately, many of my scripts, shortcuts, and Mozilla profile data
still pointed to D as the data drive; so we re-designated D as J and J
as D. The guru had not yet installed Office 2007, so he installed it on
the D drive despite my intent to use it only for data. Windows,
however, expected Office 2007 to be on the C partition. This is why
FixIt kept complaining about not finding various files and why I could
not mark Outlook unavailable. After I manually found the files for
FixIt, Windows was then able to mark Outlook unavailable.

MY PROBLEM IS INDEED SOLVED. Schedule+ works the way I want it to work.
Those parts of Office 2007 that I use -- primarily Word and Excel --
also work well. This thread should be considered closed.

--
David E. Ross

Why do we tolerate political leaders who
spend more time belittling hungry children
than they do trying to fix the problem of
hunger? http://mazon.org/

On 9/10/2015 6:49 AM, Stormin' Norman wrote:
On Wed, 9 Sep 2015 18:40:32 -0700, "David E. Ross" wrote:

On 9/9/2015 4:30 PM, Stormin' Norman wrote:
On Wed, 9 Sep 2015 16:16:11 -0700, "David E. Ross" wrote:

On 9/9/2015 3:17 PM, Char Jackson wrote:
On Wed, 9 Sep 2015 13:11:13 -0700, "David E. Ross"
wrote:

Since updating to Windows 7 Ultimate from a prior variety of Windows 7
(done as part of recovery from a virus that prevented booting), the
launching of Schedule+ is temporarily blocked with an Microsoft Office
Outlook popup that says:
Either there is no default mail client or the current mail client
cannot fulfill the messaging request. Please run Microsoft Office
Outlook and set it as the default mail client.
I can dismiss the popup by selecting its OK button, after which
Schedule+ launches and runs okay. This popup did not appear with my
prior variety of Windows 7.

Is there some way to stop this popup from appearing and stop it from
blocking Schedule+ from launching?

I believe you asked about this before, right? Has the issue been unresolved
all this time, or was there something that worked for a while?


This is my same old problem, which was never fixed. Since it is
annoying rather than serious, I let it go until now. I was hoping
someone might have some new insight about this.

Have you seen this?

https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/kb/813745


I just now tried both the manual deletion of the registry item and also
the FixIt method. Neither solved my problem.


Is the Office installation cache folder missing from the root of your C: drive? Look for "MSOCache".


I do have MSOCache in my C partition. However, Office 2007 was
installed on my D drive. Thus, the C MSOCache does not have all the
files needed. I did find the necessary files in MSOCache on my D drive.

Note my message from late yesterday, where I indicate my problem is
solved.

--
David E. Ross

Why do we tolerate political leaders who
spend more time belittling hungry children
than they do trying to fix the problem of
hunger? http://mazon.org/

David E. Ross wrote on 09/10/2015 2:25 AM:
On 9/9/2015 10:21 PM, . . .winston wrote:
David E. Ross wrote on 09/09/2015 10:38 PM:
On 9/9/2015 1:11 PM, David E. Ross wrote:
Windows 7 Ultimate SP1 (x64)
Office 2007

No, I do not have the installer CDs for either Windows or Office.

I brought forward Schedule+ successively from Windows 95 to Windows 98
to Windows XP and finally to Windows 7. This is version 7.0a (997.1).
I am retired and not in any work environment. Schedule+ works just fine
for me. I have looked at other calendar applications, and they all seem
far more complicated. I especially do not like those that insist on
keeping an open window on my desktop.

Since updating to Windows 7 Ultimate from a prior variety of Windows 7
(done as part of recovery from a virus that prevented booting), the
launching of Schedule+ is temporarily blocked with an Microsoft Office
Outlook popup that says:
Either there is no default mail client or the current mail client
cannot fulfill the messaging request. Please run Microsoft Office
Outlook and set it as the default mail client.
I can dismiss the popup by selecting its OK button, after which
Schedule+ launches and runs okay. This popup did not appear with my
prior variety of Windows 7.

I do not use Outlook. I do not like Outlook, and I do not want to use
it. My default mail client is Thunderbird. There should be no
messaging relative to Schedule+.

Is there some way to stop this popup from appearing and stop it from
blocking Schedule+ from launching?


While using FixIt per the Web site suggested by Stormin' Norman, it kept
requesting files very much like my prior attempts to remove Outlook.
This time, I did not give up. I was determine that, as long as I could
find the files -- using Everything from http://www.voidtools.com/ -- I
would continue the process.

While FixIt did not fix my problem, the files it requested allowed me to
use Programs and Features to mark Outlook as unavailable. Then, my
problem went away.

So effectively it seems your problem was caused a non-supported Win95/98
era application that called Outlook expecting to see a supported Outlook
97 version on an o/s (Win7) that neither supports the scheduler or the
necessary version of Outlook....


Yes, and all this worked just fine under some variety of Windows 7 until
a virus made it necessary to reinstall Windows 7. The prior variety of
Windows 7 was NOT Window 7 Ultimate SP1 (x64), but the latter was
installed to correct the virus problem.

My PC has two physical hard drives. Before the virus, these were C for
software and D for data. The PC guru who reinstalled Windows 7 used
EaseUS to divided what had been the C-drive into a C partition and a D
partition, both for software. C then contained Windows and those
applications that insist on being on C. D contained all the other
applications. The other hard drive was re-designated the J drive and
continued to contain data, which fortunately was not impacted by the
virus and thus did not have to be recreated.

Unfortunately, many of my scripts, shortcuts, and Mozilla profile data
still pointed to D as the data drive; so we re-designated D as J and J
as D. The guru had not yet installed Office 2007, so he installed it on
the D drive despite my intent to use it only for data. Windows,
however, expected Office 2007 to be on the C partition. This is why
FixIt kept complaining about not finding various files and why I could
not mark Outlook unavailable. After I manually found the files for
FixIt, Windows was then able to mark Outlook unavailable.

MY PROBLEM IS INDEED SOLVED. Schedule+ works the way I want it to work.
Those parts of Office 2007 that I use -- primarily Word and Excel --
also work well. This thread should be considered closed.

Office 2007 should work fine on Win and not conflict having excluded a
Schedule convert utility. The issue was calling an old version Outlook.
Thanks for reporting the end fix and end result.

It might come back with Office Updates that can reset program but not
user settings since Office updates are usually full engine replacements.


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...winston
msft mvp windows experience