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SET OUTLOOK AS DEFAULT MAIL CLIENT WINDOWS 7 HOW TO
The first step in setting it across our network is to figure out how to set it from the command line. In other words it might cause some applications to do crazy stuff when trying to access email (If you set it to a client you have not installed on the machine already). The behavior of windows is undefined if you set it to something that is nonexistent. Now, obviously the email client must exist for you to set it. If you drop down to this in the registry, you can see that the ‘default’ value on the right is what sets the default email client. Here is the key for setting the default email client: If you create one on your own, windows will simply ignore it. This is because the setting is located in the HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE hive of the registry, and there is no corresponding HKEY_CURRENT_USER entry. If you go back into the settings, it will have reverted back to the original default email client. Unfortunately it does not give you an error. If you are not an administrator, windows will gladly let you go into the internet settings under the control panel – and make the change: What I mean is – I thought if ‘USER A’ logged in, set the default email client…then ‘USER B’ could login to their account and set their own default email client.Īfter testing many different ways I have found that it does not work this way at all. When I first started doing the groundwork for this article I incorrectly assumed that the default mail client was a setting that each user could change in Windows.