Send Link By E-Mail in WLM

In Outlook Express in XP if I wanted to send someone a link to a website I
was looking at I went to Page, Send Link By E-Mail and shazam, they got an
e-mail with the link. But with Win 7 and Windows Live Mail the Send Link By
E-Mail feature under the Page menu is greyed-out, non-functional. Does
anyone know why this is, and how it can be fixed?

On Wed, 25 Aug 2010 20:31:35 -0700, DGDevin wrote:

> In Outlook Express in XP if I wanted to send someone a link to a website I
> was looking at I went to Page, Send Link By E-Mail and shazam, they got an
> e-mail with the link. But with Win 7 and Windows Live Mail the Send Link By
> E-Mail feature under the Page menu is greyed-out, non-functional. Does
> anyone know why this is, and how it can be fixed?

This sounds like the problem is in your browser, and has nothing to do with
either Windows 7 or Windows Live Mail...

Have you told the browser what your default e-mail program is?

I must say that your post is rather confusing.

--
Gene E. Bloch (Stumbling Bloch)

On Wed, 25 Aug 2010 20:31:35 -0700, "DGDevin"
<> wrote:

>In Outlook Express in XP if I wanted to send someone a link to a website I
>was looking at I went to Page, Send Link By E-Mail and shazam, they got an
>e-mail with the link. But with Win 7 and Windows Live Mail the Send Link By
>E-Mail feature under the Page menu is greyed-out, non-functional. Does
>anyone know why this is, and how it can be fixed?

If you look in Internet Options and select the Programs tab, what's
listed under the 'Email' entry? On mine, it's Microsoft Outlook and
the feature works fine. It could be that you simply have to (manually)
tell IE or your favorite browser which email program it should use.

"Char Jackson" <> wrote in message
news:...

>>In Outlook Express in XP if I wanted to send someone a link to a website I
>>was looking at I went to Page, Send Link By E-Mail and shazam, they got an
>>e-mail with the link. But with Win 7 and Windows Live Mail the Send Link
>>By
>>E-Mail feature under the Page menu is greyed-out, non-functional. Does
>>anyone know why this is, and how it can be fixed?
>
> If you look in Internet Options and select the Programs tab, what's
> listed under the 'Email' entry? On mine, it's Microsoft Outlook and
> the feature works fine. It could be that you simply have to (manually)
> tell IE or your favorite browser which email program it should use.

Hmmm, WLM was set as my default e-mail program everywhere except in the
Custom section of Options/Programs. I didn't realize I had to specify WLM
as the default mail program more than once, and in more than one place. But
I've made it the default in the Custom section too and now I can e-mail
links just fine.

Thanks very much!

On Wed, 25 Aug 2010 22:49:31 -0700, "DGDevin"
<> wrote:

>"Char Jackson" <> wrote in message
>news:...
>
>>>In Outlook Express in XP if I wanted to send someone a link to a website I
>>>was looking at I went to Page, Send Link By E-Mail and shazam, they got an
>>>e-mail with the link. But with Win 7 and Windows Live Mail the Send Link
>>>By
>>>E-Mail feature under the Page menu is greyed-out, non-functional. Does
>>>anyone know why this is, and how it can be fixed?
>>
>> If you look in Internet Options and select the Programs tab, what's
>> listed under the 'Email' entry? On mine, it's Microsoft Outlook and
>> the feature works fine. It could be that you simply have to (manually)
>> tell IE or your favorite browser which email program it should use.
>
>Hmmm, WLM was set as my default e-mail program everywhere except in the
>Custom section of Options/Programs. I didn't realize I had to specify WLM
>as the default mail program more than once, and in more than one place. But
>I've made it the default in the Custom section too and now I can e-mail
>links just fine.
>
>Thanks very much!

Good to hear that it's working.

"Char Jackson" <> wrote in message
news:...

>>Thanks very much!
>
> Good to hear that it's working.

I must say that for me this newsgroup has been a better resource on Win 7
than Microsoft's web forums, or at least it's a lot easier to use. Digging
through multiple discussions spread over various forums and sub-forums at MS
is more confusing than helpful at times.

"DGDevin" <> a écrit dans le message de groupe de
discussion : ...
> "Char Jackson" <> wrote in message
> news:...
>
>>>In Outlook Express in XP if I wanted to send someone a link to a website
>>>I
>>>was looking at I went to Page, Send Link By E-Mail and shazam, they got
>>>an
>>>e-mail with the link. But with Win 7 and Windows Live Mail the Send Link
>>>By
>>>E-Mail feature under the Page menu is greyed-out, non-functional. Does
>>>anyone know why this is, and how it can be fixed?
>>
>> If you look in Internet Options and select the Programs tab, what's
>> listed under the 'Email' entry? On mine, it's Microsoft Outlook and
>> the feature works fine. It could be that you simply have to (manually)
>> tell IE or your favorite browser which email program it should use.
>
> Hmmm, WLM was set as my default e-mail program everywhere except in the
> Custom section of Options/Programs. I didn't realize I had to specify WLM
> as the default mail program more than once, and in more than one place.
> But I've made it the default in the Custom section too and now I can
> e-mail links just fine.
>
> Thanks very much!

Hi DG,

I have the same problem as you mention above. The option to send a link by
mail is greyed-out even if WLM is set as the default mail and news program.

You said you found the solution under the " Custom section of
Options/Programs "
but I don't see that in my IE 8 program. I see the Programs tab with
different
options except the one you mentionned.

Can you be more specific and tell me where exactly...

Thank you.

On Wed, 25 Aug 2010 22:49:31 -0700, DGDevin wrote:

> "Char Jackson" <> wrote in message
> news:...
>
>>>In Outlook Express in XP if I wanted to send someone a link to a website I
>>>was looking at I went to Page, Send Link By E-Mail and shazam, they got an
>>>e-mail with the link. But with Win 7 and Windows Live Mail the Send Link
>>>By
>>>E-Mail feature under the Page menu is greyed-out, non-functional. Does
>>>anyone know why this is, and how it can be fixed?
>>
>> If you look in Internet Options and select the Programs tab, what's
>> listed under the 'Email' entry? On mine, it's Microsoft Outlook and
>> the feature works fine. It could be that you simply have to (manually)
>> tell IE or your favorite browser which email program it should use.
>
> Hmmm, WLM was set as my default e-mail program everywhere except in the
> Custom section of Options/Programs. I didn't realize I had to specify WLM
> as the default mail program more than once, and in more than one place. But
> I've made it the default in the Custom section too and now I can e-mail
> links just fine.
>
> Thanks very much!

When you say "everywhere", do you mean in several places in the browser,
or in one place each in various programs?

I have programs that, when I click on a browser link, always choose
Internet Explorer, even though it isn't my default browser, and some of
them don't provide me a way to change that. Basically, they ignore a
system-wide setting.

I know, that's about a default browser, not a default e-mail program,
but it might happen there too, and I can only talk about my own
experience :-)

--
Gene E. Bloch (Stumbling Bloch)

"Jaypie" <> wrote in message
news:i569hb$b4g$...
>
> "DGDevin" <> a écrit dans le message de groupe de
> discussion : ...
>> "Char Jackson" <> wrote in message
>> news:...
>>
>>>>In Outlook Express in XP if I wanted to send someone a link to a website
>>>>I
>>>>was looking at I went to Page, Send Link By E-Mail and shazam, they got
>>>>an
>>>>e-mail with the link. But with Win 7 and Windows Live Mail the Send
>>>>Link By
>>>>E-Mail feature under the Page menu is greyed-out, non-functional. Does
>>>>anyone know why this is, and how it can be fixed?
>>>
>>> If you look in Internet Options and select the Programs tab, what's
>>> listed under the 'Email' entry? On mine, it's Microsoft Outlook and
>>> the feature works fine. It could be that you simply have to (manually)
>>> tell IE or your favorite browser which email program it should use.
>>
>> Hmmm, WLM was set as my default e-mail program everywhere except in the
>> Custom section of Options/Programs. I didn't realize I had to specify
>> WLM as the default mail program more than once, and in more than one
>> place. But I've made it the default in the Custom section too and now I
>> can e-mail links just fine.
>>
>> Thanks very much!
>
> Hi DG,
>
> I have the same problem as you mention above. The option to send a link
> by
> mail is greyed-out even if WLM is set as the default mail and news
> program.
>
> You said you found the solution under the " Custom section of
> Options/Programs "
> but I don't see that in my IE 8 program. I see the Programs tab with
> different
> options except the one you mentionned.
>
> Can you be more specific and tell me where exactly...
>
> Thank you.
>
I was curious about that, too, but I found it. Go to Internet Options,
Programs tab, and click on the 'Set programs' button towards the bottom of
the window. Then click on 'Set program access and computer defaults.'
Click Custom, then scroll down to 'Choose a default e-mail program' and pick
Windows Live Mail. OK out of everything, and the 'Send link. . .' and 'Send
page. . .' options should now be available.
--
SC Tom
-There's no such thing as TMI when asking for tech support.

"Gene E. Bloch" <not-> wrote in message
news:1p2twkne1t6wr$.8j7tunznvz14$....

> When you say "everywhere", do you mean in several places in the browser,
> or in one place each in various programs?

I meant everywhere I looked, which was all in Explorer 8. I'm not running
much software on this new Win 7 machine yet, so I haven't run into the issue
you describe of other programs wanting to default to Explorer.