Emailing Pictures from Windows Explorer - Email button brings Outlook instead of Thunderbird

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D Smithze

Hi,

Contact has a Vista business laptop that until recently when you went into
Windows Explorer to look at pictures you can press the email button and it
would prepare an email in their email client Mozilla Thunderbird with the
image as a file attachment.

However recently this has changed back to Microsoft Outlook for no
particular reason.
Checked all the defaults and they all point to Thunderbird still being the
default program for email.
Under file associations, have checked that for protocols, SENDTO is set to
Thunderbird.

However the "E-mail" button still now brings up Outlook.

How can I change this back. It's very frustrating and I've played around for
a good long while.

Thanks in advance.
 
Dusko Savatovic said:
Control Panel
Default Programs
Set Your Default Program
etc.
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Tried many times and does not work. That's my point. It is set everywhere to
be default for Thunderbird but in the situation I have described it still
brings up Outlook 2007.
 
Winmail or Outlook are better.

Obey Microsoft or be destroyed.
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aka: Once you install a Microsoft OS they OWN your system. THEY
delicate how your system will look and feel (minimize User Options,
especially in Vista).

Microsoft, as far as there OS goes, have stopped being concerned about
the User, maximizing User Options so we can configure OUR system to
look and feel the way WE want. Example, Windows 7 is reported to
eliminate classic Start Menu user interface. See Microsoft's
attitude, to hell with users who LIKE classic modes.


Sorry for the rant... I'll climb off my soapbox now.
 
D said:
Hi,

Contact has a Vista business laptop that until recently when you went
into Windows Explorer to look at pictures you can press the email button
and it would prepare an email in their email client Mozilla Thunderbird
with the image as a file attachment.

However recently this has changed back to Microsoft Outlook for no
particular reason.
Checked all the defaults and they all point to Thunderbird still being
the default program for email.
Under file associations, have checked that for protocols, SENDTO is set
to Thunderbird.

However the "E-mail" button still now brings up Outlook.

How can I change this back. It's very frustrating and I've played around
for a good long while.

Thanks in advance.
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I don't see any email button in explorer. When I email a picture from
explorer I right click the image then select "send to" and then "mail
recipient" which opens Thunderbird. Have you tried doing it that way?
 
D said:
Tried many times and does not work. That's my point. It is set
everywhere to be default for Thunderbird but in the situation I have
described it still brings up Outlook 2007.
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Try making Outlook the default and OK/Apply your way out. Then go back
in and make T-Bird the default and see if that doesn't work. If you
don't use Outlook, another way to do it is to uninstall Outlook. You
don't have to uninstall the rest of Office to do that, btw.

The reason it happened is when you update Outlook 07, it automatically
makes itself the default without any user input.

Note that pre Vista versions of Windows, you had an icon that was named
"My computer". Notice anything missing in Vista?

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