How to set default mail client in outlook 2010 windows#
Although individual users can manually set this option in Windows Settings Choose a default app for each protocol, this assumes that the user is familiar with the setting. B has Outlook 2007 32bit and Thunderbird 3 32bit installed. So just to be clear in 1 phrase: How can I make sure that when the user clicks on send an email to your taks manager outlook will open as a default program and only via registry setting(s). This post focuses on one specific configuration option that you can set by default: configuring Windows clients to use Outlook as the default MailTo email program. So I think this is a user setting as the administrator already has this set. However, if an administrator logs on to the computer and clicks on a mailto: link, for example, a website it does launch up outlook 2010. User starts up a program ( taxes ) and uses the button within the program to send it via e-mail.Ī popup apears informing the user that there is no default mail program.
As soon as I have that key, I will configure it on the clients machine withįor additional information, hereby the real scenario:
If not then I know that is they key I am searching. What I am trying to achieve is to find the key in the registry and modify it and look if outlook is still my default program. This is currently on my local machine on which Outlook is the default program. I don't have the key HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Clients HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Classes\mailto This look much better and more in the way I am searching, thanks for helping me out :D