windows live mail

[chris 56]

Ihave windows 7 and when I to connect to windows live mail and to tryto open a connection a pop-up panel appears and says "Thisfile does not have a program associated with it for preforming thisaction, please install a program or, if one is already installed,create an association in the default programs control panel",and nothing happens, I am no wizz with this type of thing, so wouldlike some help.

[Plastic Nev]

Hi and welcome to Extreme Tech Support - Free PC Help.

Not too sure which you mean, is it Windows Live Mail itself that is refusing to open, or a file within an E Mail?

 

If it is Windows Live Mail itself, it may have become corrupted. In which case you may have to remove, and then reinstall it.

 

Nev.

[RandyL]

It may be that when you installed it you didn't select to make it the default email program. If you did not then when you click on a mailto link for instance Windows doesn't know what to use. If so do the following.

 

Start>Control Panel.

Where it says "View by" change it from category to icons if it is not already.

Click "Default programs".

Click "Set your default programs".

Click "Windows Live Mail".

Click "Set this program as default".

Click OK.