send link by email greyed out

Using Internet Explorer 9 and windows 7, The option to send 'link by e-mail'
option is *greyed* out.(as is also send 'page by e-mail')

I have searched for a solution and found several, none of which have helped.
This option was working for me before, but has now stopped working.
Grateful for any ideas.

john east wrote:
> Using Internet Explorer 9 and windows 7, The option to send 'link by e-mail'
> option is *greyed* out.(as is also send 'page by e-mail')

Under control panel, Default programs. click on your preferred email
client and set it as default.

john east wrote:
> Using Internet Explorer 9 and windows 7, The option to send 'link by e-mail'
> option is *greyed* out.(as is also send 'page by e-mail')
>
> I have searched for a solution and found several, none of which have helped.
> This option was working for me before, but has now stopped working.
> Grateful for any ideas.
>
>
Uhhhhhhhhhhhhhh...copypasta the URL into the body of the email, much?

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In news:j54k10$9p0$,
john east <> typed:
> Using Internet Explorer 9 and windows 7, The option to
> send 'link by e-mail' option is *greyed* out.(as is also
> send 'page by e-mail')
> I have searched for a solution and found several, none of
> which have helped. This option was working for me before,
> but has now stopped working. Grateful for any ideas.

Is IE9 your default browser?
Rogue software can sometimes change that setting or of course, you
yourself.

What was the last change/addition/deletion/install/uninstall you did just
before this quit working?
Try rolling that back and see if it starts to work.

Go through IE's Options and look for an entry that might control it,
especially in the Advanced tab.

What's your mail client? That could have snuck a change in too.

HTH,

Twayne`

"§nühw¤£f" wrote in message news:201109181509.UTC.j551ij$eas$...


> Uhhhhhhhhhhhhhh...copypasta the URL into the body of the email, much?

You could type out the URL too, but if the software contains a step-saving
feature allowing you to send URL's in e-mails then why not use it?

"Andy Burns" wrote in message
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john east wrote:
>> Using Internet Explorer 9 and windows 7, The option to send 'link by
>> e-mail'
>> option is *greyed* out.(as is also send 'page by e-mail')

> Under control panel, Default programs. click on your preferred email
> client and set it as default.

You have to go a step past that, to Choose Defaults For This Program and
click the boxes for things you want WLM to do, including forwarding links.
Otherwise even if WLM is the default mail program the Send Link By E-Mail
feature will remain greyed-out.

(NOTE: Fixed missing indentation of quoted content from DGDevin's use of
Windows Live Mail v15.)

DGDevin wrote:

> Andy Burns wrote ...
>
>> john east wrote:
>>
>>> Using Internet Explorer 9 and windows 7, The option to send 'link by
>>> e-mail' option is *greyed* out.(as is also send 'page by e-mail')
>>
>> Under control panel, Default programs. click on your preferred email
>> client and set it as default.
>
> You have to go a step past that, to Choose Defaults For This Program
> and click the boxes for things you want WLM to do, including
> forwarding links. Otherwise even if WLM is the default mail program
> the Send Link By E-Mail feature will remain greyed-out.

Actually you have to get a step BEFORE both which is to actually
*install* an e-mail client since Windows 7 doesn't come with one.

Notice the OP posted using Outlook Express which means it is likely the
OP posted from his Windows 7 host (unless he knows about installing the
Windows XP license for XP Mode on some versions of Windows 7).
Microsoft stopped bundling OE with Internet Explore back as of version 7
of IE. The base version in Windows 7 in IE8. OE is not available as a
separate install from IE. So you can't get OE on Windows 7 unless you
use the Windows XP license with XP Mode (which is usable only on some
versions of Windows 7).

The OP needs to install an e-mail client before he can pick one as the
default.

On 18/09/2011 18:25, VanguardLH wrote:
> (NOTE: Fixed missing indentation of quoted content from DGDevin's use of
> Windows Live Mail v15.)
>
> DGDevin wrote:
>
>> Andy Burns wrote ...
>>
>>> john east wrote:
>>>
>>>> Using Internet Explorer 9 and windows 7, The option to send 'link by
>>>> e-mail' option is *greyed* out.(as is also send 'page by e-mail')
>>>
>>> Under control panel, Default programs. click on your preferred email
>>> client and set it as default.
>>
>> You have to go a step past that, to Choose Defaults For This Program
>> and click the boxes for things you want WLM to do, including
>> forwarding links. Otherwise even if WLM is the default mail program
>> the Send Link By E-Mail feature will remain greyed-out.
>
> Actually you have to get a step BEFORE both which is to actually
> *install* an e-mail client since Windows 7 doesn't come with one.
>
> Notice the OP posted using Outlook Express which means it is likely the
> OP posted from his Windows 7 host (unless he knows about installing the
> Windows XP license for XP Mode on some versions of Windows 7).
> Microsoft stopped bundling OE with Internet Explore back as of version 7
> of IE. The base version in Windows 7 in IE8. OE is not available as a
> separate install from IE. So you can't get OE on Windows 7 unless you
> use the Windows XP license with XP Mode (which is usable only on some
> versions of Windows 7).
>
> The OP needs to install an e-mail client before he can pick one as the
> default.

Not sure I understand what is going on. It is not possible to tell from
the OP message source what OS he is using. As you say, unless he is
using a virtual XP setup with Win7 he can't use OE6. Yet he posted his
newsgroup message with OE6. If he posted that using OE6 within Win7,
then he has an email client (OE6) already in use. Is it just that IE9
working in Win7 can't link to an email client working in virtual XP?

--

Jeff

On Sun, 18 Sep 2011 12:33:30 -0700, "Nobody > (Revisited)"
<> wrote:

>There is a possible way to have OE on Win7...
>A working install of OE on XP... upgraded to Vista... then upgraded to Win7.

Wow, talk about a lot of work.

Sounds like a ton of work for a crappy software. Why bother with all
that when there's much better software out there?
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DGDevin wrote:
>
>
> "§nühw¤£f" wrote in message
> news:201109181509.UTC.j551ij$eas$...
>
>
>> Uhhhhhhhhhhhhhh...copypasta the URL into the body of the email, much?
>
> You could type out the URL too, but if the software contains a
> step-saving feature allowing you to send URL's in e-mails then why not
> use it?

Sure, I hear windows 8 will even wipe for you after you get up from the
toilet


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