Send Link By E-Mail in WLM

[DGDevin]

In Outlook Express in XP if I wanted to send someone a link to a website I
was looking at I went to Page, Send Link By E-Mail and shazam, they got an
e-mail with the link. But with Win 7 and Windows Live Mail the Send Link By
E-Mail feature under the Page menu is greyed-out, non-functional. Does
anyone know why this is, and how it can be fixed?

 

[Gene E. Bloch]

In Outlook Express in XP if I wanted to send someone a link to a website I
was looking at I went to Page, Send Link By E-Mail and shazam, they got an
e-mail with the link. But with Win 7 and Windows Live Mail the Send Link By
E-Mail feature under the Page menu is greyed-out, non-functional. Does
anyone know why this is, and how it can be fixed?

This sounds like the problem is in your browser, and has nothing to do with
either Windows 7 or Windows Live Mail...

Have you told the browser what your default e-mail program is?

I must say that your post is rather confusing.

 

[Char Jackson]

In Outlook Express in XP if I wanted to send someone a link to a website I
was looking at I went to Page, Send Link By E-Mail and shazam, they got an
e-mail with the link. But with Win 7 and Windows Live Mail the Send Link By
E-Mail feature under the Page menu is greyed-out, non-functional. Does
anyone know why this is, and how it can be fixed?

If you look in Internet Options and select the Programs tab, what's
listed under the 'Email' entry? On mine, it's Microsoft Outlook and
the feature works fine. It could be that you simply have to (manually)
tell IE or your favorite browser which email program it should use.

 

[DGDevin]

If you look in Internet Options and select the Programs tab, what's
listed under the 'Email' entry? On mine, it's Microsoft Outlook and
the feature works fine. It could be that you simply have to (manually)
tell IE or your favorite browser which email program it should use.

Hmmm, WLM was set as my default e-mail program everywhere except in the
Custom section of Options/Programs. I didn't realize I had to specify WLM
as the default mail program more than once, and in more than one place. But
I've made it the default in the Custom section too and now I can e-mail
links just fine.

Thanks very much!

 

[Char Jackson]

Hmmm, WLM was set as my default e-mail program everywhere except in the
Custom section of Options/Programs. I didn't realize I had to specify WLM
as the default mail program more than once, and in more than one place. But
I've made it the default in the Custom section too and now I can e-mail
links just fine.

Thanks very much!

Good to hear that it's working.

 

[DGDevin]

Good to hear that it's working.

I must say that for me this newsgroup has been a better resource on Win 7
than Microsoft's web forums, or at least it's a lot easier to use. Digging
through multiple discussions spread over various forums and sub-forums at MS
is more confusing than helpful at times.

 

[Jaypie]

Hmmm, WLM was set as my default e-mail program everywhere except in the
Custom section of Options/Programs. I didn't realize I had to specify WLM
as the default mail program more than once, and in more than one place.
But I've made it the default in the Custom section too and now I can
e-mail links just fine.

Thanks very much!

Hi DG,

I have the same problem as you mention above. The option to send a link by
mail is greyed-out even if WLM is set as the default mail and news program.

You said you found the solution under the " Custom section of
Options/Programs "
but I don't see that in my IE 8 program. I see the Programs tab with
different
options except the one you mentionned.

Can you be more specific and tell me where exactly...

Thank you.

 

[Gene E. Bloch]

Hmmm, WLM was set as my default e-mail program everywhere except in the
Custom section of Options/Programs. I didn't realize I had to specify WLM
as the default mail program more than once, and in more than one place. But
I've made it the default in the Custom section too and now I can e-mail
links just fine.

Thanks very much!

When you say "everywhere", do you mean in several places in the browser,
or in one place each in various programs?

I have programs that, when I click on a browser link, always choose
Internet Explorer, even though it isn't my default browser, and some of
them don't provide me a way to change that. Basically, they ignore a
system-wide setting.

I know, that's about a default browser, not a default e-mail program,
but it might happen there too, and I can only talk about my own
experience

 

[SC Tom]

Hi DG,

I have the same problem as you mention above. The option to send a link
by
mail is greyed-out even if WLM is set as the default mail and news
program.

You said you found the solution under the " Custom section of
Options/Programs "
but I don't see that in my IE 8 program. I see the Programs tab with
different
options except the one you mentionned.

Can you be more specific and tell me where exactly...

Thank you.

I was curious about that, too, but I found it. Go to Internet Options,
Programs tab, and click on the 'Set programs' button towards the bottom of
the window. Then click on 'Set program access and computer defaults.'
Click Custom, then scroll down to 'Choose a default e-mail program' and pick
Windows Live Mail. OK out of everything, and the 'Send link. . .' and 'Send
page. . .' options should now be available.

 

[DGDevin]

When you say "everywhere", do you mean in several places in the browser,
or in one place each in various programs?

I meant everywhere I looked, which was all in Explorer 8. I'm not running
much software on this new Win 7 machine yet, so I haven't run into the issue
you describe of other programs wanting to default to Explorer.

 

[DGDevin]

I was curious about that, too, but I found it. Go to Internet Options,
Programs tab, and click on the 'Set programs' button towards the bottom of
the window. Then click on 'Set program access and computer defaults.'
Click Custom, then scroll down to 'Choose a default e-mail program' and
pick Windows Live Mail. OK out of everything, and the 'Send link. . .' and
'Send page. . .' options should now be available.

Yup, that's what I did, and that worked. I don't know why confirming that I
wanted WLM to be my default mail program (a popup asked me if I wanted to do
that the first time I used WLM) didn't universally tell Win 7/Explorer 8 to
use WLM for everything including sending links to web pages, but it didn't.
Happily it's fixable if you ask the right folks for help.

 

[Jaypie]

I was curious about that, too, but I found it. Go to Internet Options,
Programs tab, and click on the 'Set programs' button towards the bottom of
the window. Then click on 'Set program access and computer defaults.'
Click Custom, then scroll down to 'Choose a default e-mail program' and
pick Windows Live Mail. OK out of everything, and the 'Send link. . .' and
'Send page. . .' options should now be available.

Thank you Mr Tom, I followed your suggestion and it works fine now.

Have a nice day.

Jaypie

 

[SC Tom]

Thank you Mr Tom, I followed your suggestion and it works fine now.

Have a nice day.

Jaypie

You're welcome!

 

[SC Tom]

Yup, that's what I did, and that worked. I don't know why confirming that
I wanted WLM to be my default mail program (a popup asked me if I wanted
to do that the first time I used WLM) didn't universally tell Win
7/Explorer 8 to use WLM for everything including sending links to web
pages, but it didn't. Happily it's fixable if you ask the right folks for
help.

I don't know why either. After reading your original post, I looked, and
sure enough, my 'Send link. . .' options were grayed out also. After finding
and changing the custom setting, it worked, but when I went back in to trace
the steps for Jaypie, it had reverted back to 'Use my current e-mail
program.' It still worked fine, though, so I'm thinking maybe Win7 or IE8
doesn't truly recognize WLM as a 'default' program, even though it's set up
that way from the start? Who knows, maybe one line of code got dropped
somewhere along the line.
Thanks for drawing my attention to the problem. I don't use those options
often, but nice to have them there before I needed them.

 

[Gene E. Bloch]

I meant everywhere I looked, which was all in Explorer 8. I'm not running
much software on this new Win 7 machine yet, so I haven't run into the issue
you describe of other programs wanting to default to Explorer.

I would give you an example, and in fact, the last time it happened to
me was yesterday or Wednesday. Do you think I remember today which
program it was? Sheesh.

If I run into it again while this thread is reasonably current, I'll
post an example

BTW, I rarely use Internet Explorer, so I haven't had your experience
(and I'm being too lazy to explore the Explorer at the moment).

 

[Gene E. Bloch]

I would give you an example, and in fact, the last time it happened to
me was yesterday or Wednesday. Do you think I remember today which
program it was? Sheesh.

If I run into it again while this thread is reasonably current, I'll
post an example

BTW, I rarely use Internet Explorer, so I haven't had your experience
(and I'm being too lazy to explore the Explorer at the moment).

OK, this was in relation to but outside of Eclipse, which I'm using in
an attempt to learn Android programming. In Windows Explorer, I double
clicked on an xml file that belongs to the project I'm trying to learn
from, and by default it opened the file in something called XML Editor.
I can also right-click the xml file and choose to "Open with" the same
editor (or a couple of others).

This ends up being a window in Internet Explorer 8, which shows me the
XML code in a nice layout, but without interpretations. Note that IE8 is
*not* my default browser.

I can't actually *edit* the file, however. This is weird. Anyway, it
probably doesn't count as an example of a program defaulting to IE,
since it seems the program Windows Explorer is trying to run *is* IE (or
maybe a plug-in).

Another program I can "Open with" is called XML Notepad 2007, from
Microsoft, of all things:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/data/bb190600.aspx

In that one I *can* edit it.

If you're not confused, you're not me

 

[DGDevin]

You're welcome!

Geez, people asking about Win 7 problems and getting helpful answers, as
opposed to publically displaying that they suffer lingering issues as a
result of harsh toilet training--what a radical concept! ;~)

 

[DGDevin]

If you're not confused, you're not me

You lost me at "learn Android programming...." Good luck.

 

[Drew]

Geez how hard is it to highlight the page then hit ctrl+C then open a email
and hit ctrl+v to paste and then put in the person's email address and hit
send! Doesn't anybody understand keyboard shortcuts anymore?

 

[Char Jackson]

Geez how hard is it to highlight the page then hit ctrl+C then open a email
and hit ctrl+v to paste and then put in the person's email address and hit
send! Doesn't anybody understand keyboard shortcuts anymore?

When the Send To feature works, it's much faster than your way. ;-)