Default web browser and email ignored

I can't set a default web browser and email program in Windows 10.

For the browser, Opera is selected in settings, yet certain things like clicking an advert on one of the Microsoft lock screen pictures uses Edge!

For the email, when I try to select Opera Mail in settings, it's not in the list! So I'm stuck with Windows Mail, which I've never used and never set up, so clicking an email link on a web page opens Windows Mail which can't send it.

On 12/14/18 07:04, Fred Johnson wrote:
For the browser, Opera is selected in settings, yet certain things like
clicking an advert on one of the Microsoft lock screen pictures uses Edge!

why do you even BOTHER *REWARDING* their BAD BEHAVIOR for putting those
GODDAMNED ADS on YOUR COMPUTER like that??? It's like the worst kind of
MALWARE.

On Fri, 14 Dec 2018 15:04:57 -0000, Fred Johnson wrote:

I can't set a default [...] email program in Windows 10.

For the email, when I try to select Opera Mail in settings, it's not
in the list! So I'm stuck with Windows Mail, which I've never used
and never set up, so clicking an email link on a web page opens
Windows Mail which can't send it.


Which means the Opera Mail installer did not set up the registry settings
to say that Opera Mail is available as a default email program in Win10.

For a fix, see these discussions:

* https://www.reddit.com/r/operabrowser/wiki/m2tips/default_programs

* https://forums.opera.com/topic/14736/opera-mail-cannot-be-default-email-client-in-windows-10

* https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/all/opera-mail-windows-10-default-selection/b131fc52-29ca-47ce-93f2-2e0c18632e8b


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Kind regards
Ralph

🦊

On Fri, 14 Dec 2018 19:19:50 -0000, Big Bad Bob wrote:

On 12/14/18 07:04, Fred Johnson wrote:
For the browser, Opera is selected in settings, yet certain things like
clicking an advert on one of the Microsoft lock screen pictures uses Edge!

why do you even BOTHER *REWARDING* their BAD BEHAVIOR for putting those
GODDAMNED ADS on YOUR COMPUTER like that??? It's like the worst kind of
MALWARE.

No, it's a random scenic picture, and I can click to see where it is.

On Fri, 14 Dec 2018 15:04:57 -0000, Fred Johnson wrote:

I can't set a default web browser [...] in Windows 10.

For the browser, Opera is selected in settings, yet certain things
like clicking an advert on one of the Microsoft lock screen pictures
uses Edge!


You have set a default web browser, but "default" does not mean "mandatory".

Try these two tests:

1) Right-click on the Win 10 start menu icon, choose "Run", and enter
this in the "Open" box:

http://www.opera.com/

The web page opens in your default browser, Opera.

2) Right-click on the Win 10 start menu icon, choose "Run", and now
enter this in the "Open" box:

iexplore.exe http://www.opera.com/

The web page opens in the specified browser, iexplore.exe (Internet Explorer).

Setting a default web browser did not override the choice of iexplore.exe
in test #2 above.

My mail/news program Forte Agent lets me specify a web browser in its
settings. And if I do so, clicking a link in Forte Agent will use that
web browser instead of the Windows default. From your description, it
appears that the Microsoft lock screen ads explicitly specify Edge.


--
Kind regards
Ralph

🦊

On Fri, 14 Dec 2018 19:35:04 -0000, Ralph Fox wrote:

On Fri, 14 Dec 2018 15:04:57 -0000, Fred Johnson wrote:

I can't set a default [...] email program in Windows 10.

For the email, when I try to select Opera Mail in settings, it's not
in the list! So I'm stuck with Windows Mail, which I've never used
and never set up, so clicking an email link on a web page opens
Windows Mail which can't send it.

Which means the Opera Mail installer did not set up the registry settings
to say that Opera Mail is available as a default email program in Win10.

For a fix, see these discussions:

* https://www.reddit.com/r/operabrowser/wiki/m2tips/default_programs

Thanks - this one seems to have worked - there's an entry in the default programs control panel now anyway. Since Opera is installed in a silly place on my computer (under users/appdata) I edited the reg file with search and replace in notepad rather than risk reinstalling and messing up my mail folders as Opera is renowned for making a hash of its data.

Know of a "mail me" link somewhere on the internet I can test it with? I can't remember what it was I clicked last time.

* https://forums.opera.com/topic/14736/opera-mail-cannot-be-default-email-client-in-windows-10

* https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/all/opera-mail-windows-10-default-selection/b131fc52-29ca-47ce-93f2-2e0c18632e8b

On Fri, 14 Dec 2018 19:58:48 -0000, Fred Johnson wrote:

Know of a "mail me" link somewhere on the internet I can test it
with? I can't remember what it was I clicked last time.


Use this page: http://mc-computing.com/HTML_Examples/MailTo.htm


--
Kind regards
Ralph

On Fri, 14 Dec 2018 19:58:26 -0000, Ralph Fox wrote:

On Fri, 14 Dec 2018 15:04:57 -0000, Fred Johnson wrote:

I can't set a default web browser [...] in Windows 10.

For the browser, Opera is selected in settings, yet certain things
like clicking an advert on one of the Microsoft lock screen pictures
uses Edge!


You have set a default web browser, but "default" does not mean "mandatory".

Try these two tests:

1) Right-click on the Win 10 start menu icon, choose "Run", and enter
this in the "Open" box:

http://www.opera.com/

The web page opens in your default browser, Opera.

2) Right-click on the Win 10 start menu icon, choose "Run", and now
enter this in the "Open" box:

iexplore.exe http://www.opera.com/

The web page opens in the specified browser, iexplore.exe (Internet Explorer).

Setting a default web browser did not override the choice of iexplore.exe
in test #2 above.

My mail/news program Forte Agent lets me specify a web browser in its
settings. And if I do so, clicking a link in Forte Agent will use that
web browser instead of the Windows default. From your description, it
appears that the Microsoft lock screen ads explicitly specify Edge.

Typical Microsoft.

On Fri, 14 Dec 2018 21:07:06 -0000, Ralph Fox wrote:

On Fri, 14 Dec 2018 19:58:48 -0000, Fred Johnson wrote:

Know of a "mail me" link somewhere on the internet I can test it
with? I can't remember what it was I clicked last time.


Use this page: http://mc-computing.com/HTML_Examples/MailTo.htm

Thanks, it appears to be working.