default email

[bucketmouth64]

I have two email accounts, one on windows live and on yahoo. Whenever I want to contact a business off a HSOforum via hyperlink email contact address my computer defaults to windows live. How can I change this so it defaults to a different email like yahoo?

[upnorth]

You will need to find a way to get your yahoo account to associate with an email client. I would guess right now you access your yahoo account by way of a web browser? Standard free yahoo mail is not client friendly.

This may work

[bobbymalone]

you could do like i do... copy the address and paste it.

[eyeguy 54]

mine does that also so I have to copy and paste to my email. would like to make live disappear ... never use it since gmail.

[MN Mike]

There should be a couple ways to get Yahoo Mail as a selection when you click on hyperlinks.

You should be able to download Yahoo Messenger, that should put a small client on your computer so you can default email to Yahoo instead of Live Mail.

The other way you can do it is to setup Yahoo as a second email account in your Live Mail client. I believe you have to tweak a couple of settings inside your Yahoo mail account in order to access email from a client such as Live Mail, Outlook, Thunderbird and so on but they will have instruction there on how to do that, it's not too hard.

Mike

[delcecchi]

This link explains it pretty well.

http://ask-leo.com/how_do_i_change_the_mailto_or_default_mail_program.html

or this for firefox

https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/change-program-used-open-email-links