Problems trying to replace Pegasus as the default e-mail program in IE 8

Running Pegasus 4.21c on XP Home, SP 3 w/ IE 8. Long ago, I had set
Pegasus as the default e-mail program for IE, and it has worked fine
for a long time, even through IE updates. Now, I need to set either
Outlook or Windows Live Mail as the default mail program in IE 8. The
options for these two appear when I go to Tools | Internet Options |
Programs. But when I select either as the default, IE still tries to
open Pegasus when I click on the 'Read Mail' icon. And it's not even
trying to open it from the correct location. It's trying to open it
from a different drive and giving me an error box saying it cannot
find Pegasus.

I still will use Pegasus for most of my e-mail, but need Outlook or
WLM set as default in IE so I can send invoices by e-mail using
QuickBooks. Any suggestions?

Tim J. wrote in
:

Running Pegasus 4.21c on XP Home, SP 3 w/ IE 8. Long ago, I had
set Pegasus as the default e-mail program for IE, and it has
worked fine for a long time, even through IE updates. Now, I need
to set either Outlook or Windows Live Mail as the default mail
program in IE 8. The options for these two appear when I go to
Tools | Internet Options | Programs. But when I select either as
the default, IE still tries to open Pegasus when I click on the
'Read Mail' icon. And it's not even trying to open it from the
correct location. It's trying to open it from a different drive
and giving me an error box saying it cannot find Pegasus.

I still will use Pegasus for most of my e-mail, but need Outlook
or WLM set as default in IE so I can send invoices by e-mail using
QuickBooks. Any suggestions?


Were you logged in as "Administrator" ?

See:
"How To Change Default Email Client"
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/555566

"Unable to Set Different E-Mail Programs for Different Users"
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/315240

HTH,
John

On Fri, 25 Jun 2010 19:38:11 -0700, John Wunderlich
wrote:

Tim J. wrote in
:

Running Pegasus 4.21c on XP Home, SP 3 w/ IE 8. Long ago, I had
set Pegasus as the default e-mail program for IE, and it has
worked fine for a long time, even through IE updates. Now, I need
to set either Outlook or Windows Live Mail as the default mail
program in IE 8. The options for these two appear when I go to
Tools | Internet Options | Programs. But when I select either as
the default, IE still tries to open Pegasus when I click on the
'Read Mail' icon. And it's not even trying to open it from the
correct location. It's trying to open it from a different drive
and giving me an error box saying it cannot find Pegasus.

I still will use Pegasus for most of my e-mail, but need Outlook
or WLM set as default in IE so I can send invoices by e-mail using
QuickBooks. Any suggestions?


Were you logged in as "Administrator" ?

See:
"How To Change Default Email Client"
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/555566

"Unable to Set Different E-Mail Programs for Different Users"
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/315240


Yes, I did all of the above as an adminstrator.

On Thu, 01 Jul 2010 17:41:18 -0400, Tim J. wrote:

On Fri, 25 Jun 2010 19:38:11 -0700, John Wunderlich
wrote:

Tim J. wrote in
m:

Running Pegasus 4.21c on XP Home, SP 3 w/ IE 8. Long ago, I had
set Pegasus as the default e-mail program for IE, and it has
worked fine for a long time, even through IE updates. Now, I need
to set either Outlook or Windows Live Mail as the default mail
program in IE 8. The options for these two appear when I go to
Tools | Internet Options | Programs. But when I select either as
the default, IE still tries to open Pegasus when I click on the
'Read Mail' icon. And it's not even trying to open it from the
correct location. It's trying to open it from a different drive
and giving me an error box saying it cannot find Pegasus.

I still will use Pegasus for most of my e-mail, but need Outlook
or WLM set as default in IE so I can send invoices by e-mail using
QuickBooks. Any suggestions?


Were you logged in as "Administrator" ?

See:
"How To Change Default Email Client"
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/555566

"Unable to Set Different E-Mail Programs for Different Users"
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/315240


Yes, I did all of the above as an adminstrator.

This fixed it.

http://www.winhelponline.com/blog/re...rnet-explorer/