how to set your default email client
on windows xp:
1. open internet explorer
2. select tools à internet options in the menu.
3. select the programs tab.
4. select your desired email client from the dropdown list.
5. click accept.
6. To test your selection, click this link to see if it opens your desired email client.
on windows vista, 7 and 8:
1. click start.
2. type “default programs” in the start search box.
3. click default programs under programs in the search results.
4. click set your default programs.
5. highlight your desired email client on the left.
6. click set this program as default.
7. click accept.
8. To test your selection, click this link to see if it opens your desired email client.
in windows 10
1. Click the start menu button – bottom left.
2. Click on the settings menu item.
3. Click on the system icon.
4. Click the Default Applications menu item.
5. Locate the email header and click the current default email client just below the header.
6. Select your desired email client.
7. Close the configuration window.
8. To test your selection, click this link to see if it opens your desired email client.
Notes: The email addresses used for reminders come from the “email” field on the staff form. You may need to restart Training Manager after making changes to your default email client. troubleshooting problem: I want to use gmail for my email client, but it doesn’t appear in the options for my default email client. Solution: If gmail does not appear as an option for a default email client in your version of windows, you will need to install a third-party utility that can be set as the default and configured to send via email. here is a link to a utility that provides that feature: affixa problem: when sending an email to a list of email addresses, a message says that the email addresses must be separated by periods and comma instead of commas. Note, however, that a comma is designated to separate email addresses in section 3.4 of the RFC for Internet Message Format. Solution: Microsoft has acknowledged a bug for this problem in Outlook 2003 and Outlook 2007. According to their support page: “Status: Microsoft has confirmed this to be a problem in the Microsoft products listed at the beginning of this article. Microsoft has also provided the following workaround: Follow these steps to configure Outlook to recognize the comma as a valid email address separator: On the Tools menu, click Options. Click Email Options, and then click Advanced Email Options. below when sending a message, click to select the Allow comma as address separator check box. Note that you can still use a semicolon (;) to separate email addresses when you click to select the Allow comma as address separator check box. see the following microsoft support article for full details: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/820868 problem: when sending an email, the following message appears: “or not There is default mail client or the current mail client cannot fulfill the messaging request.” Solution: Set the default email client as described at the top of this page. If the default email client is already set, but the problem persists, the Outlook registry key may be corrupted. Please refer to the following microsoft article for solution details: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/813745 If the above solutions do not resolve the issue, please check if the installed Outlook version is 64-bit. There is no benefit to using the 64-bit version of Outlook and it is not supported by many applications. see this article for more information: http://www.msoutlook.info/question/461