send link by email greyed out

[john east]

Using Internet Explorer 9 and windows 7, The option to send 'link by e-mail'
option is *greyed* out.(as is also send 'page by e-mail')

I have searched for a solution and found several, none of which have helped.
This option was working for me before, but has now stopped working.
Grateful for any ideas.

 

[Andy Burns]

Using Internet Explorer 9 and windows 7, The option to send 'link by e-mail'
option is *greyed* out.(as is also send 'page by e-mail')

Under control panel, Default programs. click on your preferred email
client and set it as default.

 

[§nühw¤£f]

Using Internet Explorer 9 and windows 7, The option to send 'link by e-mail'
option is *greyed* out.(as is also send 'page by e-mail')

I have searched for a solution and found several, none of which have helped.
This option was working for me before, but has now stopped working.
Grateful for any ideas.

Uhhhhhhhhhhhhhh...copypasta the URL into the body of the email, much?

<blink>
<blink>
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http://www.skepticalscience.com/
www.friendsofanimals.org |www.snuhwolf.9f.com|
_____ ____ ____ __ /\_/\ __ _ ______ _____
/ __/ |/ / / / / // // . . \\ \ |\ | / __ \ \ \ __\
_\ \/ / /_/ / _ / \ / \ \| \| \ \_\ \ \__\ _\
/___/_/|_/\____/_//_/ \_@_/ \__|\__|\____/\____\_\

 

[Twayne]

In

Using Internet Explorer 9 and windows 7, The option to
send 'link by e-mail' option is *greyed* out.(as is also
send 'page by e-mail')
I have searched for a solution and found several, none of
which have helped. This option was working for me before,
but has now stopped working. Grateful for any ideas.

Is IE9 your default browser?
Rogue software can sometimes change that setting or of course, you
yourself.

What was the last change/addition/deletion/install/uninstall you did just
before this quit working?
Try rolling that back and see if it starts to work.

Go through IE's Options and look for an entry that might control it,
especially in the Advanced tab.

What's your mail client? That could have snuck a change in too.

HTH,

Twayne`

 

[DGDevin]

"§nühw¤£f" wrote in message

Uhhhhhhhhhhhhhh...copypasta the URL into the body of the email, much?

You could type out the URL too, but if the software contains a step-saving
feature allowing you to send URL's in e-mails then why not use it?

 

[DGDevin]

"Andy Burns" wrote in message

Under control panel, Default programs. click on your preferred email
client and set it as default.

You have to go a step past that, to Choose Defaults For This Program and
click the boxes for things you want WLM to do, including forwarding links.
Otherwise even if WLM is the default mail program the Send Link By E-Mail
feature will remain greyed-out.

 

[VanguardLH]

(NOTE: Fixed missing indentation of quoted content from DGDevin's use of
Windows Live Mail v15.)

Andy Burns wrote ...


You have to go a step past that, to Choose Defaults For This Program
and click the boxes for things you want WLM to do, including
forwarding links. Otherwise even if WLM is the default mail program
the Send Link By E-Mail feature will remain greyed-out.

Actually you have to get a step BEFORE both which is to actually
*install* an e-mail client since Windows 7 doesn't come with one.

Notice the OP posted using Outlook Express which means it is likely the
OP posted from his Windows 7 host (unless he knows about installing the
Windows XP license for XP Mode on some versions of Windows 7).
Microsoft stopped bundling OE with Internet Explore back as of version 7
of IE. The base version in Windows 7 in IE8. OE is not available as a
separate install from IE. So you can't get OE on Windows 7 unless you
use the Windows XP license with XP Mode (which is usable only on some
versions of Windows 7).

The OP needs to install an e-mail client before he can pick one as the
default.

 

[Jeff Layman]

(NOTE: Fixed missing indentation of quoted content from DGDevin's use of
Windows Live Mail v15.)


Actually you have to get a step BEFORE both which is to actually
*install* an e-mail client since Windows 7 doesn't come with one.

Notice the OP posted using Outlook Express which means it is likely the
OP posted from his Windows 7 host (unless he knows about installing the
Windows XP license for XP Mode on some versions of Windows 7).
Microsoft stopped bundling OE with Internet Explore back as of version 7
of IE. The base version in Windows 7 in IE8. OE is not available as a
separate install from IE. So you can't get OE on Windows 7 unless you
use the Windows XP license with XP Mode (which is usable only on some
versions of Windows 7).

The OP needs to install an e-mail client before he can pick one as the
default.

Not sure I understand what is going on. It is not possible to tell from
the OP message source what OS he is using. As you say, unless he is
using a virtual XP setup with Win7 he can't use OE6. Yet he posted his
newsgroup message with OE6. If he posted that using OE6 within Win7,
then he has an email client (OE6) already in use. Is it just that IE9
working in Win7 can't link to an email client working in virtual XP?

 

[Evan Platt]

There is a possible way to have OE on Win7...
A working install of OE on XP... upgraded to Vista... then upgraded to Win7.

Wow, talk about a lot of work.

Sounds like a ton of work for a crappy software. Why bother with all
that when there's much better software out there?

 

[§ñühwö£f]

"§nühw¤£f" wrote in message



You could type out the URL too, but if the software contains a
step-saving feature allowing you to send URL's in e-mails then why not
use it?

Sure, I hear windows 8 will even wipe for you after you get up from the
toilet


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http://www.ltsaloon.org | www.extinctioncrisis.org
www.snuhwolf.9f.com|www.savewolves.org
_____ ____ ____ __ /\_/\ __ _ ______ _____
/ __/ |/ / / / / // // . . \\ \ |\ | / __ \ \ \ __\
_\ \/ / /_/ / _ / \ / \ \| \| \ \_\ \ \__\ _\
/___/_/|_/\____/_//_/ \_@_/ \__|\__|\____/\____\_\

 

[KCB]

Not sure I understand what is going on. It is not possible to tell from
the OP message source what OS he is using. As you say, unless he is using
a virtual XP setup with Win7 he can't use OE6. Yet he posted his
newsgroup message with OE6. If he posted that using OE6 within Win7, then
he has an email client (OE6) already in use. Is it just that IE9 working
in Win7 can't link to an email client working in virtual XP?

IE9 has no connection to XP Mode. I think VanguardLH is right about the OP
needing to install an email client in Win7. Or, if he is in fact posting
from XP Mode, he could use OE6 to send pages and links from whatever version
of IE he has installed there. I guess that could include 6, 7, or 8.

 

[VanguardLH]

There is a possible way to have OE on Win7...
A working install of OE on XP... upgraded to Vista... then upgraded to Win7.

But if the OP had migrated from XP to Vista to 7, the default e-mail
client setting would've remained in place. I'm guessing the OP got a
pre-installed OS on a pre-built computer (tis the most common scenario
for users of Windows 7).

 

[john east]

In

Is IE9 your default browser?
Rogue software can sometimes change that setting or of course, you
yourself.

What was the last change/addition/deletion/install/uninstall you did just
before this quit working?
Try rolling that back and see if it starts to work.

Go through IE's Options and look for an entry that might control it,
especially in the Advanced tab.

What's your mail client? That could have snuck a change in too.

HTH,

Twayne`

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The pc i use posting to this group is this one which has xp and outlook
express. The one I'm having trouble with is a *new* one with Win7, internet
explorer9 and windows live mail.

I was quite happy with outlook express especially as i could access
newsgroups via eternal-september.com.

Someone suggested i download 'outlook 2003' for my emails in preference to
windows live mail, and that i could also get my newsgroups from eternal
september. Would you think that is a good idea?

Basically being a simple soul i'm looking for the most trouble free option
to get my newsgroups via eternal september. I emailed them asking for
advice, saying i no longer had OE and wanted to find the best way to get
newsgroups from them , but got no reply.

I have now done a *system restore* to a few days ago and the send 'link by
email' is now restored. Dont know which program upset this function, it may
have been 'voip stunt' shall go to more recent restore points to see if i
can find out what caused it.

Cannot understand why a perfectly good email program like outlook express
has to be phased out. Also i could use my free eternal-september for
newsgroups with outlook express. Thanks to all.

 

[Char Jackson]

[Crosspost removed. I don't intentionally post to groups that I don't
read.]

The pc i use posting to this group is this one which has xp and outlook
express. The one I'm having trouble with is a *new* one with Win7, internet
explorer9 and windows live mail.

I was quite happy with outlook express especially as i could access
newsgroups via eternal-september.com.

Someone suggested i download 'outlook 2003' for my emails in preference to
windows live mail, and that i could also get my newsgroups from eternal
september. Would you think that is a good idea?

That doesn't sound like a great idea to me. Outlook 2003 doesn't do
newsgroups so you'd still need a usenet client.

Basically being a simple soul i'm looking for the most trouble free option
to get my newsgroups via eternal september. I emailed them asking for
advice, saying i no longer had OE and wanted to find the best way to get
newsgroups from them , but got no reply.

Thunderbird frequently gets mentioned as a decent Usenet client. It's
free, but so are several others. Try a few and see what works best for
you.

 

[Beauregard T. Shagnasty]

Cannot understand why a perfectly good email program like outlook
express has to be phased out. Also i could use my free eternal-september
for newsgroups with outlook express.

Install Thunderbird, for both mail and news. Better than OE, to be sure.

http://www.mozilla.org/en-US/thunderbird/

 

[Mike Yetto]

In 24hoursupport.helpdesk, john east wrote:

Install Thunderbird, for both mail and news. Better than OE, to be sure.

http://www.mozilla.org/en-US/thunderbird/

Just make sure you configure TB properly and remember how you did
it. There seems to be quite a number of posts on
eternal-september.support asking how to fix it.

Back in the day, when I used Win2K at home I was quite happy
using The Bat! for e-mail and Xnews for Usenet, for what that's
worth. Now I use Claws and slrn with Linux, but that won't be my
recommendation.

Mike "lookout distress is perfectly anything?" Yetto

 

[Ken Blake]

Someone suggested i download 'outlook 2003' for my emails in preference to
windows live mail, and that i could also get my newsgroups from eternal
september. Would you think that is a good idea?

Three points:

1. In my view Outlook 2003 is *much* better than Windows Live Mail.

2. You need a newsreader to get newsgroups. No version of Outlook is a
newsreader. You can use Outlook for e-mail and get any of several
other programs to use as a newsreader (as I do, although I use Outlook
2010, not 2003). I use and like Agent 6.0 as my newsreader, but there
are several other downloadable choices you might prefer, some free and
some shareware.

3. If you have a newsreader, what news server you use is irrelevant.
Any newsreader can use Eternal September or any of the many other news
servers out there. In fact, most newsreaders can use multiple news
servers without a problem. I have mine set to use five news servers,
including Eternal September.

 

[Evan Platt]

Someone suggested i download 'outlook 2003' for my emails in preference to
windows live mail, and that i could also get my newsgroups from eternal
september. Would you think that is a good idea?

I wouldn't think using Outlook - any version - for newsgroups is a
good idea.

Basically being a simple soul i'm looking for the most trouble free option
to get my newsgroups via eternal september. I emailed them asking for
advice, saying i no longer had OE and wanted to find the best way to get
newsgroups from them , but got no reply.

Because for the most part, most news providers simply provide support
for clients, not make recommendations.

Cannot understand why a perfectly good email program like outlook express
*cringe*

has to be phased out. Also i could use my free eternal-september for
newsgroups with outlook express. Thanks to all.

You could use your free eternal-september account with any usenet
application.

 

[Beauregard T. Shagnasty]

Just make sure you configure TB properly and remember how you did
it. There seems to be quite a number of posts on
eternal-september.support asking how to fix it.

I see that too. It's puzzling, since it is certainly no more difficult
to set up than Outhouse Distress...

Posting from it now; took me less than a minute to set it up.

 

[Ken Blake]

I wouldn't think using Outlook - any version - for newsgroups is a
good idea.

As I pointed out in an earlier message in this thread, it's not a
question of a good idea or not. It's simply not possible.