Comments on: Change The Default Email Program In Internet Explorer 7

By: Susan Potter

Susan Potter — Sun, 04 Oct 2009 02:23:26 +0000

I Should have known that, thanks for the tip!

By: Tom

Tom — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 23:18:49 +0000

Going all the way down from Feb 20, 07, it took 2 years to get the solution THANKS JW!
IT WORKED HERE:
XP, IE7, in internet options> programs >email : make as default ” Corel CENTRAL Mail”. (= mail to links now open in Gmail ). I have no idea what Corel CENTRAL mail stands for.

By: JW

JW — Sun, 18 Jan 2009 15:55:53 +0000

The mailto: link under Vista w/ IE7 was not opening my email in G-Mail despite the fact that gmail notifier was set. Reflecting back, I did have notifier installed and mailto links were opening in IE6, but failed to work when I installed IE7.

The solution? Exit Gmail Notifier and go to the tools page on Google and download and reinstall Notifier. This solves the problem — mailto links now open in Gmail.

By: Johnnyo

Johnnyo — Sat, 10 Jan 2009 10:20:41 +0000

yo – people! – start thinking outside the box! stop using ms ie forever. download google chrome and be happy.. ie to some of you here is like watching cable tv. you have 99 channels to click around on but you are only loyal to 3 of them. so program the tv for 3 channels and find something else to whine about. get it?

By: rodney

rodney — Sun, 23 Nov 2008 03:12:25 +0000

Joel I did all you said and I was excited until I relalized I have XP. Any solulution for XP ie geting hotmail in the programs drop down menu for e-mail accounts?

By: joel

joel — Mon, 03 Nov 2008 12:47:47 +0000

For IE7, just do a websearch for “register (email service name here) as default program” . After extracting a file and running it to register your email service as a default program, you’ll be able to pick your email service in the list under Tools>Internet Options>Programs>Set Programs>Set Your Default Programs. Click your email service from the list, click “Choose defaults for this program”, then check the Mail To and E-Mail Link buttons.

As an example, here’s the register file for Hotmail:
http://www.winhelponline.com/articles/224/1/Register-Windows-Live-Hotmail-with-the-Default-Programs-tool-in-Windows-Vista.html

By: QT

QT — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 16:09:57 +0000

Helpless.

By: QT

QT — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 16:04:44 +0000

I use IE7, and like gmail as my default email program.I installed gmail motifier, it works for many hyperlinked email addresses, but still does not work for some hyperlinked email address. I have tried many ways, but failed. It seems nobody here could solve the problem. I am very disappointed.
Of course, I could copy/paste the unworking email address into gmail and send email out. It is a pain.

By: threesheets

threesheets — Mon, 08 Sep 2008 03:48:30 +0000

Thanks! Not to the expert- but to all those commenters who gave their advice. I have been trying to figure this out forever and downloading the gmail notifier worked. That’s one more for me, one less for Gates!

By: Alex X

Alex X — Sun, 27 Apr 2008 20:56:32 +0000

Is this really impossible? I am using Vista, with IE7, and Outlook 2007 (I use for calendar functions, NOT email).

I want to retain Gmail as my default email for clicking links in IE7, but as far as I can tell there is no option for this. Windows really really wants me to use Outlook instead, but by doing so I would be giving up all of Gmail’s features (search, etc.)! I have the gmail notifier, and clicked the “make default” option, but I think outlook overpowered that, since outlook still opens whenever i hit an emal link.

There MUST be a solution to this. Is Outlook really so powerful that I can’t use gmail anymore unless I specifically open a window each time?

This was never a problem with XP, IE6, before I got outlook….