GMAIL, IE & default email client

August 17, 2007

I use Gmail & love it. I use

Mozilla Firefox as my browser.

So I don't use any Microsoft

products for either of these

tasks.

It used to be, when I was brows-

ing, if I clicked on a mailto link,

a new tab would open with a

blank Gmail compose box, & the

email address of the link I'd clicked.

I'd type my message in that Gmail

box & send it off.

A while back, when I did this,

nothing happened for about 15

seconds. Then suddenly, 58

Internet Explorer blank windows

would pop up & cascade all over

my screen.

I get a message to the effect that the

default mail client is not installed.

It doesn't happen on every web-

site; in fact, I think it only happens

when I try to reply to a Craigslist

ad.

When I've tried to set up Gmail as

my client in the XP control panel, it

is not there to choose. Nor is it there

when I try to configure IE's internet

options.

In the control panel, the message is

that Win XP should use the current

email prgram, but in IE, I'm offered

three Microsoft options--Hotmail,

Outlook & the other version of Outlook

Seems to me this trouble would

stop if I could tell WinXP that I'm

using Gmail & no other email program.

I went to http://windowsxp.mvps.org/MailtoProtocol.htm

which seems to describe my problem

exactly. but the fix didn't work for me.

I typed in control inetcpl.cpl & I got

this error message:

Windows cannot find 'control.inet.cpl'. Make sure you typed the name

correctly, and then try again. To search for a file, click thh Start button,

and then click Search.

So I searched my entire computer for

'control.inet.cpl' & the file was not found.

Can anyone help?

diane in seattle

August 17, 2007

Re: GMAIL, IE & default email client

It's "control inetcpl.cpl", which launches the Internet Options dialog.

See:

Tools for Associating Mailto Links with Gmail:

http://www.gmailusers.com/tools-mailto.htm

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Regards,

Ramesh Srinivasan, Microsoft MVP [Windows Shell/User]

Windows® Troubleshooting http://www.winhelponline.com

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