Vista - Emailing Pictures from Windows Explorer - Email button brings Outlook instead of Thunderbird

Hi,

Contact has a Vista business laptop that until recently when you went into
Windows Explorer to look at pictures you can press the email button and it
would prepare an email in their email client Mozilla Thunderbird with the
image as a file attachment.

However recently this has changed back to Microsoft Outlook for no
particular reason.
Checked all the defaults and they all point to Thunderbird still being the
default program for email.
Under file associations, have checked that for protocols, SENDTO is set to
Thunderbird.

However the "E-mail" button still now brings up Outlook.

How can I change this back. It's very frustrating and I've played around for
a good long while.

Thanks in advance.

Control Panel
Default Programs
Set Your Default Program
etc.


"D Smithze" <NOSPAMPLEASE@xxxxxx> wrote in message
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"Dusko Savatovic" <nospam.savatovic@xxxxxx> wrote in message
news:Ohb$Axq9JHA.3244@xxxxxxTried many times and does not work. That's my point. It is set everywhere to
be default for Thunderbird but in the situation I have described it still
brings up Outlook 2007.

same thing happened to me...........very frustrating as it was SO easy to email pictures and stuff prior to the is challenge. ANY help will be greatly appreciated.!!

Same problem here.
???

D Smithze wrote:
I don't see any email button in explorer. When I email a picture from
explorer I right click the image then select "send to" and then "mail
recipient" which opens Thunderbird. Have you tried doing it that way?

I am SO excited!! I just figured it out!! PHEW!!! Persistence pays off. SO I will share with you NOW.

Go to Start Menu, Press DEFAULT PROGRAMS. Click "Set your default programs" Click on Thunderbird in left column; Thunderbird info will appear in box to right....below that choose "Set this program as default" and then press OK....then you get to test it out right away!! Let me know if it works for you. I am SO STOKED!!

I recently upgraded from a Windows XP computer to one running Vista.
Using Microsoft Vista and Thunderbord 2.0.0.22 I had he same problem as
many of you describe above, right-clicking on a picture and choosing
"send to mail recipient" would open up Microsoft Mail, despite the fact
that Thunderbird is my default email program. An attempt to reinstall
Tunderbird using the "default setup" did not change anything.
Here is what worked for me:
I had to reinstall Thunderbird 2.0.0.22 using the "custom installation"
option in the setup program. Once I entered the custom installation
menues I choose the default selections for all questions.
Now right-clicking on a picture and selecting "mail to" opens
Thunderbird as desired.


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