Windows Vista default mail client not properly installed

Hi - I am having issues with trying to send an email out from another site. I keep getting an error message, "default mail client not properly installed." I have Vista and use Yahoo as my email address.
I am not very technical with computers. Can someone please help me? I am getting so frustrated with this.

 

I am having issues with trying to send an email out from another site.???
Do you mean to another site?
Are you using an outside computer to send email from?
Need more info please. Neil.

 

default mail client

Hi- Sorry for the bad details. I am trying to correspond to someone else from another website on my computer. I cannot send out an email to contact them from their site. I can only use my Yahoo mail page. I have always been able to do it before. This just started a week ago.
I have a site that I am doing schooling with and have a chat forum on it for questions. I have not been able to send anything out due to this error window that pops open. It is from my own computer just another site that I am on. Yahoo works from their mail page but I cannot contact anyone else from other sites. Does this make sense?

 

default mail client not property installed

I have Vista and am trying to engage in a chat forum on another site from my computer. When I try to send out a message I get an error window that says, default mail client is not properly installed. I use Yahoo as my default mail account. Yahoo works fine but I cannot send out a message on the chat forum from this site or even send an email to their tech support from their site. I did call them and they said it was something on my computer causing the issue. I don't know much about computers and I have been trying to get this corrected. After much frustration I found this site was so thankful.
Can someone Puhlease help me?? I have read other postings on here about this issue but they all seem to setup Windows Mail. I want to keep Yahoo and not have to use another email account. Am I just misunderstanding how this works and, if so, how can I fix this????
Thank you so much!!!!!!

 

It sounds like you use a web-based email, is this it?
https://login.yahoo.com/config/login_verify2?&.src=ym

If you click on some "contact us" or "send email" links on some webpages, it will try to open the default email program, the default program will be Windows Mail, unless you have adjusted it.
http://www.freeemailtutorials.com/microsoftWindows/setDefaultEmailClientOnWindowsVista.cwd

It tries to open Windows Mail, but Windows Mail is not set up to run on your computer, so then you get that error message.

Hover the cursor over the link, you should see the address it is going to connect to at the bottom-left of the window. It probably says something like "MailTo: #####@#####.com ". The MailTo: tells Windows to open the default email program, which in your case would be Windows Mail.

I wouldn't know how to set it to open a web-based email by default. I just make a note of the email address, open my web-based mail (Hotmail) and put the address into a new message there.

Let us know if this sounds something like what you are trying to achieve, we can move this thread to the email forum.

Matt

 

Hi Matt- Thank you for your help. You are correct in what I was trying to do. Although, I have been able to do this all along from this particular website until about 2 weeks ago. I'm not sure what caused it to change. I have made so many attempts at correcting this issue that I do not know what I did right. However, it is now working again. As I said, I know enough to be dangerous!!!
Thanks so much for your help!

 

OK, good Jackie.

Don't forget to mark your thread Resolved (it's in your Thread Tools). I will do it for you this time.

 

You've sparked a nerve. I probably know enough to turn a computer into scrap metal. I try to be careful, especially with somebody else's data. I try to find out any consequences before making any major changes. I try to make a note of any changes I make so that I can backtrack them if I fail. I backup data if the changes could be fatal (which might mean a considerable amount of forethought).

Don't be dangerous, do your research and follow your steps carefully. (Easy to say )

Matt

 

Hi Matt- I will definitely try to keep a log as I am moving throughout trying to correct something. That would certainly make it much easier in my learning process. haha
I didn't know about the thread tools. Sorry. I do now.
I have one more question. When I click to open a site, I get a small window that I have to click again to get it to open. Is there a way to correct that? I do not like to wait much and this can be such a slowing process. Every window opens this way except my homepage when I first click on.
Thanks.

 

Can you describe the details about the "small window "? Is it a new window that is not maximised? Is it some type of pop-up box? Look in Help and Support for "Working with windows ", it might help you describe it.

 

If you mean that when a link opens in a new IE window, that window is half-size or smaller, then there are two ways to fix it.

One is to download IE Maximizer, install and use it. I haven't used it but others have recommended it.

The other is the method I used to use. Now I just use tabbed browsing so I don't have to mess with multiple windows.

1. Open IE, go to a page with links, right click a link and in the menu that opens, left click "Open in new window. "

2. In the new, smaller window, hover the cursor over a side or corner, hold down the left mouse button and drag the window to the desired size and placement.

3. When you have the secondary window resized to your satisfaction, go back and close the original window. This method will not work unless you close the original window first.

4. Then close the secondary window that you resized.

All future secondary windows will then open to the size and placement of that window you resized.

Or, to force links to open in a tab instead of a new window and if you have a wheel mouse, click on the links with the wheel instead of a mouse button.

 

MIZ- thanks so much! It works great now.

 

Default Mail Client

I have just purchased a new computer and it has windows 7. I have a website boatfishingwales.com there are email buttons around the site for people to get in touch with me, but they do not seem to work at the moment the message I receive when I press the button is default mail client is not properly installed. I have mentioned it to my website designer and he hasn`t got a clue what is happening, my computer is running with Internet Explorer any help please

 

You should really start a thread of your own. That way it will not be confusing to the original poster on what we tell you.

Thanks.

 

touchofclass, MrBill is right, your post does not belong here. For the sake of moving it to a new thread, which might get messy, I'll just point out that this is the Vista forum and your problem probably relates mostly to "default email ". In our forums, asking a question in somebody else's thread can be considered as "hijacking the thread ", which is what MrBill is speaking of.

I am actually working on

where I work, same problem, different cause. I went to your website and when I click on your "MailTo:" links, my default email starts up (my default email is Vista's Windows Mail). In Windows 7 a default email handler is not specified. Windows 7 does not have a specified email program, you need to set one yourself. MS offer Windows Live Mail if you wish to install it. Look up how to set your default email in Help and Support.

Matt

 

Default mail client is not properly installed windows 7

Sorry everyone for getting into the wrong discussion, I am knew at this, so pardon my ignorance. Any how I have managed to do it. Here`s how.

I went on my website home page then clicked on tools, I selected internet option then you uncheck "Tell me if Internet Exlorer in not the default web browser ", then at the top of the same page click on programs, on the bottom select the program you want to use for other Internet services i.e. email etc click on set programs, click on set your default program, in the next window select your email provider, then at the bottom click on set this program as default, press OKAY

Although this looks like a lot of bother it only took me a few minutes, and everthing is now working fine. Hope this of some help to others.