No Email Program

[JLB Please excuse me, I'm a Dick. Not a moron just a Dick Find all posts View Profile Close JLB]

When I click on a name to get an email address, I get this error message:

There is no email program associated to perform the requested action. Please install an email program or, if one is already installed, create an association in the Default programs control panel

I've followed the instructions that you find in a google search, but when I get to the list of programs I can designate as an email program, there is no mail program there,

TIA

[tonyg Goomba & Super Moderator Find all posts View Profile Close tonyg]

Presuming you are clicking on a name here, I don't know why you would get that message unless your email program will not accept emailing from this forum. Other than that, the person you are attempting to email may not have selected the option to be emailed from this forum. When I click on a name an email box appears.

[taffy19 Gold Contributor Find all posts View Profile Close taffy19]

JLB, I found out why because it also happened to me. You need to be signed in and then you can send an email to someone else. Try it.

[JLB Please excuse me, I'm a Dick. Not a moron just a Dick Find all posts View Profile Close JLB]

Not here.

Other sites.

Any other site that hides email addresses, so you have to click on something to get it.

In my old LT, whenever I did that, it would next show an email page with the address I want in the To: line, probably in Outlook Express. Then I would copy and paste that address into my own email program.

In googling this problem, I've read where there was a lawsuit and MS cannot default Outlook, starting in Win7

But, like I said, there is no email program in the program list that comes up, and no where to add programs to it, at least that I could see.

[JLB Please excuse me, I'm a Dick. Not a moron just a Dick Find all posts View Profile Close JLB]

Here's the instructions:

Change the default e‑mail program

Though Windows Mail is used as the default e‑mail program by web browsers and other programs that support sending e‑mail, you can choose a different e‑mail program as the default. If you decide you want to change the default e‑mail program back to Windows Mail, you can do so at any time.

1. Open Default Programs by clicking the Start button Picture of the Start button, and then clicking Default Programs.
2.Click Set your default programs.
3.Under Programs, click the e‑mail program you'd like to use, and then click Set this program as default.
4.Click OK.

There is no Windows Mail in the list of default programs.

When I click All Programs, there is no Windows Mail there.

[tonyg Goomba & Super Moderator Find all posts View Profile Close tonyg]

Perhaps you don't have windows mail.

[taffy19 Gold Contributor Find all posts View Profile Close taffy19]

Perhaps you don't have windows mail.

I thought that Microsoft Windows 7 comes with Windows Mail? I don't know about Windows 8 but both our PCs came with Windows Mail as the default mail program.

It is possible that JLB may have unchecked it in one of the settings? You can get it back again if you check the box again. I did this once by accident myself but need to read up again how to do this.

What Operating System are you using, JLB?

[PeterS Moderator Find all posts View Profile Close PeterS]

I believe Windows Mail ended with Vista and Windows 7 is shipped without any stand alone email program.

But there are many you can get for free like Opera Mail...

[JLB Please excuse me, I'm a Dick. Not a moron just a Dick Find all posts View Profile Close JLB]

I believe we have gotten to the cruxt of the problem, which I mentioned in Post 5.

So, how do I go about adding a mail program, and will it appear in the default program list, so it will either default as the mail program, or I can select it.

& what do those of you with Win 7, or, I suppose, Win 8, have?

I have Win 7 Professional.

Thanks

[JLB Please excuse me, I'm a Dick. Not a moron just a Dick Find all posts View Profile Close JLB]

I still have not found a way to add a default email program, so I am unable to generate an email form by clicking on a name on some sites.

I am using a refurbished Dell from an Amazon supplier, and I suspect one just did not get added when they installed Win 7.

[tonyg Goomba & Super Moderator Find all posts View Profile Close tonyg]

Read all about it: https://www.google.com/search?q=sett...x-a&channel=sb

[JLB Please excuse me, I'm a Dick. Not a moron just a Dick Find all posts View Profile Close JLB]

Read all about it: https://www.google.com/search?q=sett...x-a&channel=sb

I already did:

You visited this page on 9/17/14.


before I posted today.

When I select "Custom", I cannot unselect "Use my current email program", and there does not appear to be one.

I believe the second reply here applies to me, but I don't feel comfortable doing stuff like that:

http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/w...a-c97b3b93014d

[tonyg Goomba & Super Moderator Find all posts View Profile Close tonyg]

If you don't jump in, you will never try to adjust things that you might need.

[JLB Please excuse me, I'm a Dick. Not a moron just a Dick Find all posts View Profile Close JLB]

If you don't jump in, you will never try to adjust things that you might need.

What did you think of what it said to do?

[tonyg Goomba & Super Moderator Find all posts View Profile Close tonyg]

What did you think of what it said to do?

Not much. I have a dozen or so email programs and avoid internet explorer as a browser, so it really didn't interest me.