How To Set Yahoo Mail/Gmail As Default Email Client In Internet Explorer

In my last post I told you about how to set default email client in Firefox. But if you are using Internet Explorer here is a step by step tutorial to change the default email client.

  1. First open Internet Explorer

  2. At the top, click on Tools >> Internet Options.

  3. Select the Programs tab.

  4. Under E-mail box and Newsgroups drop down box, select your desired program.
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  5. Click OK

3 Comments

Glenn Gillette March 19, 2010

Neither Yahoo nor gmail show up in my list. How do I make that happen? That’s what I expected to find out here, not the simplest part of the solution, but all of it. Misleading title.

Granscole February 10, 2011

Yor approach abve seem to be outdated. I used window 7 and still find it hard to follow you.
Thansk all the same