How to stop WinMail (Vista Home Premium) from starting up automatically?

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Published on 2010-04-26T00:23:25Z Indexed on 2010/04/26 0:33 UTC
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Task Manager / Processes shows WinMail.exe;

I don't want it to be there automatically, given that it doesn't even work! (says please use Windows Live Mail etc).

So i looked in Startup folder, and msconfig but WinMail does not appear in either of these.

Any ideas?

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