Default mail client .How do I install on Int. Explorer 7?

Question

I'm trying to send screen pages to either myself or others but when I click "SEND" on my Yahoo toolbar I receive the following message, "Default Mail Client Not Properly Installed"
OK............... How do I properly install this thing?
Enuf to drive one to drink...a lot. Thanks very much for assistance.

Answer 1

Click Start > Control Panel > Internet Options > Programs tab (or on Internet Explorer toolbar, click Tools > Internet Options > Programs tab) > under E-mail click the down arrow and select the email you want to open whenever you click on a mailto link, on send page by email > click Apply and OK.

If Yahoo! Mail is the one you want and it's not listed as an option, follow the directions below.

Set Internet Explorer or Firefox to open a Yahoo! Mail Compose window if you click an email link on a web page. Email links appear all over the place – contact us links, feedback links, peoples’ underlined names. So, what email program opens when you click links like these? Make it Yahoo! Mail!

Here’s how to set your PC, running either Internet Explorer or Firefox, to open your account’s Compose window when you click an email link on a web page. There’s not an official version for the Mac - yet.

PC -- Internet Explorer or Firefox

1.From the “Start” pop-up menu in the lower left corner of your desktop, select “Settings” > “Control Panel”.
2.In the Control Panel, select “Internet Options”. This opens the “Internet Properties” window.
3.Click the “Programs” tab along the top.
4.Click the “E-mail” pull-down menu, and select Yahoo! Mail*
Click OK.

*Are you not seeing Yahoo! Mail in your list of E-mail programs? Download Yahoo! Messenger. It’s easy, it’s quick, and it puts Yahoo! Mail in your E-mail application list.

http://help.yahoo.com/l/us/yahoo/mail/yahoomail/settings/settings-10.html

You can download Yahoo! Messenger here:
http://messenger.yahoo.com/

If you already have Yahoo! Messenger, re-install it. If you don't want Yahoo! Messenger and uninstall it, it should leave Yahoo! Mail in the list of email options.

Answer 2

Most of the time the default email client for MS is outlook...should be installed with the Operating system...so that might be corrupt...look into how to fix that...or get a different email client and go to Set program access and defaults in XP, then click custom, then choose a default email program and click the one you want to use and save changes...