Cannot make NS my default mail program

After many moons it is I again with another odd problem. I just installed a new 80 gig HD and dual booted 2 identical operating systems ( win 2000 Pro ) everything works fine except on one partition when I boot to it Outlook is my mail program and I cannot for the life of me change it. I did a search on the problem and found some info on how to change it IE: Go to C:\Program Files\Netscape\Users and do xxx only problem is I do not see anything past
"C:\Program Files\Netscape\" No user. What hath I messed up?

thanks
erg

 

erg, my friend, long time since you've been around. Perhaps you've been lurking?

C:\Program Files\Netscape\Users is the folder for Netscape Communicator. If you're still using Netscape 7.2, look here for your: Profiles Folder Location.

If I knew for certain what your reference is, I could better help. Could you be referring to the user.js file?

Go to Edit | Preferences | Mail & Newsgroups
Enable: Use Mozilla Mail as the default mail application.

If you still have problems go to:
Start | Settings | Control Panel
Ppen Internet Options
Click on: Programs tab
Select Netscape Mail from the drop-down list next to E-mail:.

There is also a Registry Key that points to the default Mail Client:
HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\mailto\shell\open\command

Does it point to Netscp.exe?

Ramona

 

Thanks Ramona. No that hot key points to Outlook but on this partition I booted too this morning my mail is working properly. I think I fixed the problem last night on the other partition. I wasnt very clear in my original post last night. I use a program called MailWasher. It lets me look at the emails on the ISP server before they are downloaded and when I would click on PROCESS MAIL it would open Outlook. Mailwasher was configured correctly and I think the problem was because I did not have a USER Profile if that makes any sense. I will try it again later and see if it raises its ugly head again, if so, I shall return as McAuther said. Thanks again for the reply

 

Take a look at

Setbrowser

It may do what you want.

regards:captjlddavis

 

Thanks, that is interesting. I got it bookmarked