Customize Start Menu > E-mail link > Live Mail ?

[Andre]

Is it possible to change something in Registry to start Live Mail or My
Live.com home page from the Start Menu?

 

[Colin Barnhorst]

Why the registry? Don't you just need to have IE7 in your Startup folder
with a home page set to Windows Live?

 

[CH]

Andre I thought that when you installed Windows Live Mail (I had it a while
ago) that it converted your hotmail account to Windows Live Mail and when
you signed into your hotmail account you were in Windows Live Mail. I
didn't like the interface much and thought the original was better but check
and see if the new features will help you. There is a newer version: (You
can download from either link):

Windows Mail Blog
http://morethanmail.spaces.live.com/

Windows Live Mail Page
http://ideas.live.com/programPage.aspx?versionId=6ac2bed2-b5a4-4a0a-a897-e36dd191a9f4

You sure don't need the registry. All you need to do is drag a shortcut from
the address bar when you log in and you'll have a shortcut to it on your
desktop (but you'll of course have to sign in after a certain period of time
like any email account that is web based.)

CH

 

[Andre]

In "Costomize Start Menu" window I have only choice between Windows Mail and
Hotmail (E-mail link).
And I don't want to set up the Windows Live's My Live page as a home page.
I want to have Live Mail in list of this choices.

 

[Mark D. VandenBeg]

Can't you make an IE7 Favorite and store the favorite in the Startup folder?

 

[Andre]

Mark, of course I don't want to store the Favorites in Startup.
It's even sounds strange for me.
And you store all you favorites into your Startup?

 

[Mark D. VandenBeg]

No, but I also have no desire to open a web page when I start my system,
either. Isn't that what you are trying to do?

 

[Andre]

Thanks, CH.
Your advise works fine for me.
I've downloaded and installed Windows Live Mail Desktop Beta, and I've got a
third link in Customize Start Menu window. That is called Windows Live
Desktop Beta, and that's what I was need.

Thank you ALL.

 

[Mark D. VandenBeg]

After re-reading your post, I realize I was incorrect. Sorry about that.
Chad's advice should work for you.

 

[Andrew McLaren]

Mail, which is my primary email account. But in the 'Customize" area
under "Properties" there is only "Windows Mail" and "Windows Live Mail"
as choices in the dropdown menu. How can I change it to AT&T Yahoo

Hi Christy

Unfortunately, I don't believe this is possible.

To be listed under the Start Menu email options, an email program needs to
install and register a DLL (a program file) in the correct location in the
Windows Registry. The email program also needs to register itself as one of
the "mailto" protocol handlers.

Some email applications which you install onto your PC will do this - for
example, Outlook, Windows Live Mail, Thunderbird, etc.

As far as I know, Yahoo mail is a web-based email system: no program code
gets installed onto your PC, it all runs from the website pointed to by the
URL. So, there is nothing to register, as an email client. It would - in
theory - be possible for Yahoo or other web-based email providers to install
a DLL to achieve this, but that would obviate some of the benefits of
web-based email eg you can access it from any web browser, without any
special software installed.

It's a bit annoying (I have same problem with Google Gmail) but, that's the
way it is.

For more technical background, see this MSDN entry:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd203067(VS.85).aspx

Not the answer you wanted, but ... I hope it helps a bit.

Andrew

 

[Andrew McLaren]

Thank you for your reply. I recently bought a new computer with Windows
Vista. On my other computer, which used Windows XP, I was able to
change the email in the start menu to Yahoo Mail, so is this just a

Ah, okay!!

In that case ... maybe you had the Yahoo Toolbar installed, before? If you
install the Toolbar into Internet Explorer, then I *think* you can set Yahoo
as the email application.

See http://help.yahoo.com/l/us/yahoo/mail/yahoomail/settings/

Select "Yahoo! Mail and Your Browser" on that page, and then click on the
link "How can I make Yahoo! Mail my default email application?".

It looks like the Toolbar does indeed download the necessary binary file to
your local PC. Apologies for my earlier misinformation (although it was,
broadly, correct

Hope it helps,

Andrew

 

[Andrew McLaren]

I'm not sure why Internet Options doesn't appear in your Control Panel. But
you can reach the same panel by running Internet Explorer, clicking on
"Tools" on the IE Toolbar (or press the Alt key and select Tools, Internet
Options from the menu).

Then click the Programs tab, at the top on the Internet Options panel
(General, Security, Privacy, Content, Connections, Programs, Advanced)

Then press the Set Programs button under the "Internet Programs" heading.

Then click on the "Set program access and computer defaults" link. Under
Custom, look for "Choose a default email program".

If Yahoo mail is listed there, you're in luck - choose it.

If Yahoo Mail is not there, then it is not registered on your system as an
email provider. In this case, you'll probably need to take your question to
a Yahoo Mail related forum. The problem is very specific to Yahoo mail, and
not really a general Windows problem.

In general terms, web-based mail applications cannot be added to the Start
Menu; only "fat" email clients installed on the local machine. But Yahoo may
have some kind of mechanism to register an email link.

Good luck,
Andrew