Guest diane in seattle Posted August 17, 2007 Posted 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
Guest Ramesh, MS-MVP Posted August 17, 2007 Posted 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 -- Regards, Ramesh Srinivasan, Microsoft MVP [Windows Shell/User] Windows® Troubleshooting http://www.winhelponline.com "diane in seattle" <dianeinseattle@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message news:E8AC6B59-1F42-45DD-A156-74F82A183DB5@microsoft.com... 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
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