Vista - Windows Photo Gallery - Email button - opens Outlook instead of Thunderbird.

Hi,

Have a problem where using Windows Photo Gallery. therefore we are viewing a
photo in the gallery that we want to email and when pressing the "Email"
button it opens up Outlook.

We want it to open up Thunderbird instead as this is the Email program we
use and this has been set as default.

Thunderbird opens when we click on a mailto link within a website so that
part works fine and normally Thunderbird will open whenever there is a
request to send email.

however it used to work on Windows Photo Gallery but not any more and we
cannot work out how to get this back.
We are assuming a registry entry somewhere but does someone know which
registry entry this could be?

Please help

Does anyone know how to get around this problem? I have vista with 64 bit.
I don't have microsoft office on my computer. They say Vista needs
Microsoft office to send mail through windows mail. What a rip off. I
don't use office and don't want it but need to send web pages sometimes
through this program. What should I do?

The host 'quest' could not be found. Please verify that you have entered the
server name correctly.
Subject 'not able to send mail on windows mail', Account: 'pop3', Server:
'quest', Protocol: SMTP, Port: 25, Secure(SSL): No, Socket Error: 11001,
Error Number: 0x800CCC0D
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D Smithze wrote:

To avoid confusion, always begin a new thread to ask your questions (instead
of hijacking someone else's thread & changing the subject).

Your settings aren't even close to being correct. Contact your ISP.
--
~Robear Dyer (PA Bear)
MS MVP-IE, Mail, Security, Windows Client - since 2002


Lois wrote:

Whoever "they" is, they are wrong. :-)

Which mail account are you trying to set up in Windows Mail?
If Gmail, see
http://mail.google.com/support/bin/a...y?answer=86383

--
Gary VanderMolen, MS-MVP (Mail)


"Lois" <yoschlossy@xxxxxx> wrote in message newsCAD2FAF-56C1-4D43-965A-2F2F198242D8@xxxxxx

Gary VanderMolen wrote:
I wonder if the OP means QWEST (used to be US West I think)in which case
his settings would likely be here.

"Lois" wrote:

Liz,
Start your own thread and state your particular problems.
Copy & paste the ENTIRE error message. You might have similar problem as
Lois, but you could not have the same identical error message. Different
error message indicates different cause of problem.
t-4-2

"Liz B." <LizB@xxxxxx> wrote in message
news:8A95E6F5-C9E6-4229-A6B2-99BEF25224CE@xxxxxx

Did you ever get this fixed? I am having the same problem. Thunderbird use to
open when I wanted to send from Photo Gallery now it won't.
Brenda

"D Smithze" wrote:

The newsgroup to which you posted is dedicated to supporting the
Windows Mail program.
You will get more help by posting that question in a Thunderbird help forum:

--
Gary VanderMolen, MS-MVP (Mail)


"Brenda" <Brenda@xxxxxx> wrote in message news:E4D97240-6D03-498A-B121-6F16E69370D1@xxxxxx