Genie Backup Manager - Glitch

I'm using Genie Backup Manager Home 8 on my Vista (ugh) PC.

I had an evaluation version of MS Office installed on my computer. I recently uninstalled it, and now when Genie attempts to run automatically overnight it puts up a dialogue box which says it can't find Outlook, and that no default email client has been specified. It doesn't start the backup until I've clicked on the 'Cancel' button, which means that backups no longer run automatically for me.

Can anyone think of why Genie is suddenly looking for Outlook? I didn't have Outlook installed on my last PC (which was XP), and that was never a problem. Any suggestions on how to fix this would be appreciated.

 

My guess... When you installed the Office demo, it changed the default email program to Outlook. Now that Outlook is gone, Genie is confused.

I would set the default email program back to Windows Mail (which is part of the standard Vista installation.) Here is a tutorial of how to go about it http://www.freeemailtutorials.com/microsoftWindows/setDefaultEmailClientOnWindowsVista.cwd

 

Thanks very much indeed, Han! I didn't know how to go about setting defaults, but I've set it now to Agent (as that's the one I use) and I'll be very surprised if this doesn't sort out the problem.

Your help is much appreciated

 

Just dropping back in to confirm that this worked, and my backups are now happening overnight again. Thank you very much

 

Glad it worked!