Who is my default mail client

I am running win 7 pro logged on as an admin and IE There is NO way here to select Hotmail. I DO want my Outlook to still be associated with my calendaring, appointments, etc..

That is, a IE mailto web link would use Hotmail and Outlook would go along merrily using pop3 type email. Any help please? This seems like it should be such a simple thing. I have years in IT with Microsoft software and I cant seem to fix this one on my own. These posts seem to be pretty old, so I hope someone is still listening. Ok, that was my last hope, now I am really stumped.

Help please. I am confused tho, the whole point of your article was using Hotmail within internet explorer, complete with and as in your first example. Ah, yes. I need to update this article. That appears to no longer be the case.

It normally should work. When you paste it, check the address which is pasted to see what actually is there. I have run across your answers before! And you are a genius! I have been looking and looking for an answer to a little issue for a while now, and then I found you have dealt with this previously! Here is the situation: I cannot find the correct method for removing the expired trial version of Outlook which was included with Windows 10 and Microsoft Office Home and Business Office I have Word and also Excel which I use in my business.

This trial has expired. I do not use Outlook at all. I prefer to use gmail as the default email. I want to be able to click on any link to reply or send an email and have gmail pop open like Outlook tries to do. Please let me know if this works: Go to the Settings app. Click the icon to the left. Click on the one you want. When it pastes into the BCC column, all the email addresses come up, with a space between each one… but no comma or anything between the emails.

I then have to start over, paste all emails, then go through and put a comma in between each individual email. It would probably work if you placed a comma at the end of each email address in your spread sheet. That way, each email address you paste will have a comma after it. You may have to remove the last comma, but that would be quite simple. You could probably even automate the process of adding the comma by doing an automatic replace, For example replace all. If one Note book goes down with a virus or what ever, I am able to fire up my 2nd Toshiba and all is good.

I took your advice and everything worked out great. After reading your piece on how to correct this issue, I opened Window Explorer, made the change and everything worked fine. Thanks again!!!! Best Regards from Canada. Under here you can set default applications for a variety of things, including mailto: links. Gmail and Yahoo! I did a quick web search for Firefox and gmail. Several email services are supported including gmail. Alternately in firefox-you can use web base program I use aol.

This is on windows 7 machine using firefox Comments violating those rules will be removed. Comments that don't add value will be removed, including off-topic or content-free comments, or comments that look even a little bit like spam.

All comments containing links and certain keywords will be moderated before publication. I want comments to be valuable for everyone, including those who come later and take the time to read. Search Ask Leo! When viewing some websites, I want to send them an email for whatever reason.

I prefer to send and receive my messages using my Gmail account. Can you tell me how I can set it up so that when sending a message as explained above, Gmail will come up as my email carrier? You can easily tell Windows 10 what installed email program to use as the default for sending mail.

The process is slightly different for Windows 7. Web-based email can typically not easily be set as the default for sending, with the exception of Gmail if you use Chrome. An installed email program can be set as the default to access your web-based email service. Do this: Subscribe to Confident Computing!

I'll see you there! Podcast audio. I'll walk through one common solution. One way to do that? Think twice before replying. How Do I Stop Outlook. Sometimes it gets a little too aggressive. I'll look at how to tame it. Jean Reply. Thanks Reply. Thanks Larry Reply. Hi Leo, Similar to the question from John MacKenzie query on October 21, PM I have followed the above instructions on installing Gmail Notifier to make Gmail the default email handler but the system still insists on using Hotmail.

Thanks Andy Reply. Thanks, Andy. Now, Outlook opens again when I hit mailto:, the way I like it. Thanks buddy… Reply. Cheers, Manon Reply. Comcast does not show up in internet email providers. Can I install Lycos as my default program? Thanks, Mary Maday mom2nice comcast. Anyway to get hotmail into the list? I did what you said for gmail notifier and also did the same thing for g-mail talk — checked the box on both of these programs and g-mail still is not my default e-mial program for mailto: Reply.

Kim Reply. Mike Reply. DaddyWarbucks Reply. Anyone have an idea how to fix this? Any ideas on how to do this? Thanks, Ro Reply. Has this been put to rest? So that if your users use Outlook, then you set it to Outlook. Outlook is then configured to use whatever mail service you use. Dave Reply. Leo, You made may day. Click Settings. Click Show Advanced Settings at the bottom of the page. Under "Privacy," click Content Settings. Scroll down to the "Handlers" section, and click the Manage Handlers button.

Select your desired, default email client e. Firefox Open your Firefox web browser. Click the Firefox menu the top left-hand corner of the window. Click the Applications subtab. Use the search bar for "mailto. Use Gmail. Note: On a Macintosh computer, your settings will automatically be saved, so you will not need to click OK. Safari Open your Safari web browser. Install the "Google Mailto Extension" for Safari by clicking the following link: Google Mailto Extension Click the Downloads icon arrow pointing down at the top right-hand side of the window.

Click Default Programs under Programs in the search results. Click Set your default programs. Highlight your desired email client on the left. Click Set this program as default.

In Windows Click on the Start menu button - lower left. C lick on the Settings menu item. Click on the System icon. Click on the Default Apps menu item. L ook for the Email heading, and click on the current default email client just below the heading. S elect your desired email client. Close the Settings window.