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When I click on the email address on a web site why does it go to outlook express now? it didn't use to?

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  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago
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    You can change the setting to the option you like. Follow these steps to change it back:

    Option 1:

    1. Open Internet Explorer

    2. Go to Tools -> Internet Options -> Programs tab -> Email pull-down list, and change the email client to the one you like.

    Option 2:

    1. Click Start -> Settings -> Control Panel -> Internet options

    2. Click on the Programs tab -> Email pull-down list, and change the email client to the one you like.

    More Details:

    Outlook Express became the default mail client only if you:

    1. Opened it once and agreed for it to be your default mail client.

    2. Did Internet Explorer Upgrade?

    3. Did a recent SP upgrade for your windows XP or any other OS?

    There is a way though to remove the default mail client.

    Just follow these steps:

    1. Go to Start -> Run -> and type "regedit" without the two quotations.

    2. Click OK on the Run window, and the Registry Editor window opens.

    3. Go to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE \ Software \ Clients \ Mail \

    4. You should see on the right side of the window a key name "(Default)", with Type "REG_SZ", and the Data value is "Outlook Express".

    5. You need to clear out the content of the key in step 4 above. How! By double clicking on it, or by right-clicking on it and choosing Modify, then delete "Outlook Express" text and then click OK.

    6. Close the Registry Editor window. You are set now, and you have no default mail client anymore. You can at anytime go to your IE Options to set one.

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  • ?
    Lv 4
    4 years ago

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  • 1 decade ago

    It probably is the default setting for when you click on email addresses.

  • 1 decade ago

    You must have outlook express as your default mail program. You need to change it to the one you want to use.

    Go to internet options, then programs then change the default mail program in there

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  • 1 decade ago

    bremember the computer is like the brain of the person who created it any ways it thinks you want to send a message to that email

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