I’ve recently had the privilege of setting up a brand new, speedy notebook. A notebook computer is my computing tool of choice. In the transition from my old machine I began having difficulty on my new machine getting my email program to respond to email addresses when clicked in a web page. Windows XP had lost it’s default email client settings. I tried a few of Microsoft’s suggestions to no avail.
Today I found a handy utility that worked like a charm and even allows you to set the default email client on a per user basis. Which means if you share a computer and have separate logins you can each choose a different default email program (I haven’t tried this feature but it looks promising). Should you need to change or reset your default email client, download and try this handy peace of freeware called DefaultMail.
I’ve also struggled with maintaining XP’s deafault browser settings. My browser of choice is Firefox, which I highly recommend you switch to. But no matter what I try I’ve had trouble keeping Internet Explorer from changing the default browser settings whenever I must use it, which is rarely, usually to check the compatibility of one of my web designs with IE. Enter another handy freeware utility that allows you to set the default browser. It’s called, not surprisingly, DefaultBrowser.