Vista - Send Page or Link by E-mail (IE8 in Windows 7)

On the Page menu, Send Page by E-mail and Send Link by E-mail are grayed
out. Instead I have to use E-mail with Windows Live.
If I select E-mail with Windows Live it wants me to log into Windows Live.
WHY???

Maybe I do not want to sign up for Windows Live. Maybe I prefer not to log
in. I feel like I am held hostage.

Are you talking about the initial sign-in? You can disable that:
Tools, Options, Connection, "Stop signing in".
You can configure WLM to be as web-unaware as you want,
but you lose some benefits.

--
Gary VanderMolen, MS-MVP (Mail)


"Fuzzy John" <donot@xxxxxx> wrote in message news:eruiV5kgJHA.5956@xxxxxx

I am talking about the sign-in web page that opens up when I attempt to send
a link by e-mail from Internet Explorer 8. If I do not sign-in I cannot send
the link.

Yes, I know I can copy and paste.



"Gary VanderMolen" <Gary@xxxxxx> wrote in message
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Do you want to use Windows Live Mail to send links and/or pages? If yes,
then I think this -- the greyed out options -- might be related to WLM not
being the default email handler in IE. In IE, go to Tools | Options |
Programs and see if Windows Live Mail is set as the default program, if not
then select WLM to be the default Email and Newsgroup program.

Sterling

"Fuzzy John" <donot@xxxxxx> wrote in message
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IE8 in Windows 7 does not show the defaults as earlier versions of IE did.
However it will take you to where you set the defaults.
There, to me, it looks like everything is set correctly.
By the way, "mailto" doesn't work either. When I click on a "mailto" link I
get a message that the mail client was not installed properly. So far I did
at least 5 CLEAN installations of Windows 7 followed by Windows Live, all
with the same results.



"Sterling" <Sterling@xxxxxx> wrote in message
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"Fuzzy John" <donot@xxxxxx> wrote in message news:ewtwKUtgJHA.5844@xxxxxx
What about just entering mailto: in the IE Address bar?


Try some diagnosis?

In a cmd window what do you get from this command pipeline:

ftype | find /I "mail"

or in particular what do you see after entering just:

ftype mailto

BTW note that you could try simulating that action by copying
the command it implies into your Run... dialog (Win-R)
and trying to execute it. Just delete any parameter strings
(e.g. %1) if necessary. (I don't think it should be necessary
but it might help.) Doing that might give you different symptoms
or more insight on the ones that you are already getting.
Also, you could try tracing the execution with ProcMon
(assuming that still works in W7. <w>)


Good luck

Robert Aldwinckle
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Windows 7 Beta Support Forums
http://social.technet.microsoft.com/...egory/w7itpro/
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~Robear Dyer (PA Bear)
MS MVP-IE, Mail, Security, Windows Desktop Experience - since 2002
AumHa VSOP & Admin http://aumha.net
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Fuzzy John wrote:

You mean this has nothing to do with Windows Live Mail???


"PA Bear [MS MVP]" <PABearMVP@xxxxxx> wrote in message
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