Set Program Access and Defaults

Hello,
I have Win 2000 SP4. I went into Set Program Access & Defaults to make Thunderbird my default e-mail program (I also have it set as default elsewhere). After clicking on Thunderbird the process started, but never finished -- it was just hung up in the same spot for a long time, so I decided to cancel. Well it got hung up cancelling. I just restarted my computer. I was able to use Thunderbird, so far no problem there. My question is -- does anyone know if setting defaults like that are suppose to take a long time? Do you think by cancelling this could cause a problem. If so, I do have Go Back. Any info greatly appreciated.

Jeane

 

It should not take that long.

After the hang and cancel, I would suggest using go-back to revert while you still have a good restore point to use.

After that probably good to open a cmd prompt and give a
chkdsk /r and let it take a good look at the drive with fixes for any problems found then from a run line

Code:

sfc /scannow

After those two I'd force a new go-back restore point and try doing the Thunderbird thing again.

Just in case the problem is something to do with how Thunderbird is registered (assuming it is) to show up in Set Program Access & Defaults you might want to use the app feature to set it as default and then go to Set Program Access & Defaults and have it 'use current'.