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Nobody > (Revisited) wrote:

> On 9/18/2011 10:25 AM, 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.
> 
> There is a possible way to have OE on Win7...
> A working install of OE on XP... upgraded to Vista... then upgraded to Win7.

But if the OP had migrated from XP to Vista to 7, the default e-mail
client setting would've remained in place.  I'm guessing the OP got a
pre-installed OS on a pre-built computer (tis the most common scenario
for users of Windows 7).