Changing the default email program in W7
Monday, July 25, 2011, 09:55 AM
Good Morning, !
Today is Monday, July 25
A friend changed her email address, again.
I asked her why she keeps doing that and being a nuisance?
She claims, it is the only way to escape the spam.
Considering, that I have used humor@webby.com for about
15 years, unchanged, I had to laugh about that wacky notion.
Expecting everybody else to update your address every time
you think you are getting mor spam, than you can cope with,
just makes you look incompetent. Are you sure, you should be
allowed onto a computer without competent supervision?
I use MailWasher, and have since the last century.
Wow, that makes me sound old! Actually, it was just a dozen
or so years ago, that I first got it.
The main advantages of MailWasher are:
1) It, and you, sort the mail on the server, prior to
downloading it. You only download the mails, that you are
actually going to read / answer / file. You don't waste time
on spam.
2) It is childishly easy to make filters, that will make sure
mail from specific addresses always gets through, no matter
what they write about. Yes, Mom MIGHT be joking about a topic,
that you normally consider spam, so you need a reliable way
to get her mail through.
3) MailWasher lets you easily click together very sophsticated
filters using your own rules and regulations and exceptions.
4) It is surprisingly cheap, and it is really easy to transfer
from an old to a new machine. I highly recommend
MailWasher.
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From the Tech Support Pits:
From: Peggy
Re: Changing the default email program in W7
I have a friend that uses Window 7, and hates the mail program
because she can't use her stationery---what would be the best
email program for her to change to, so she can use her pretty
stationery? Thank you for your help.
Peggy
Dear Peggy
She will have to contact Microsoft Support.
Due to very snotty programming, Windows 7 does not allow you
to set other email programs as default email programs, well
not without some very serious messing around in the Registry.
She can use other email programs by starting them from an
icon or from MailWasher, but highlighting a picture or music and
hitting "SEND" in the explorer defaults to Windows Live Mail.
Yes, the Europeans are planning to sue them about it, like they
did about them making IE the default.
Eudora still works fine in W7, and has handled stationery just fine
for about 20 years. Except for W7 not allowing it as a default
SEND program, it works just fine on W7. Thunderbird and many
other email programs also work fine on W7, as long as you
start them from an icon or call them from MailWasher.
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I boarded the train and took my seat. The seat next to
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