Problem with Outlook vs Thunderbird.

Firefox & Thunderbird have been my defaults for years. I do have Microsoft Outlook 2000 that I use only for the Contacts, never for email, nor is it even set up for that.

Now, suddenly, when I’m looking at a picture in a website, when I go to File/Send Link, Outlook instead of TB opens. Same thing happens when some website lets me send an email to them, get Outlook instead of TB.

It never used to do this, and have done nothing to Outlook recently that should make a difference.

I checked Options in both Outlook and TB, but can’t find anything that should cause this change, or a way to correct it.

In Outlook’s Options, in email choices, there is a box with a choice of 1. connecting to the Internet, 2. connecting to a LAN, or 3. not connecting at all. Unfortunately, the latter is grayed out, and can’t click on that radio button.

I found several fixes for this in MS Knowledge Base, but none of them worked. In exasperation, I finally un-installed Outlook, deleted all the folders, and tried the Send Link again. Sure enough good old Thunderbird came up as before.

However, when I re-installed Outlook and imported the contacts I had saved, same old problem again.

Any ideas of what caused this change suddenly, and how can get it back where it was and have Thunderbird open as the default email program?

Stupid #*&@$# MS!

OK, to answer my own question. I solved itby going to Control Panel/Internet Options/Programs and changed the email from Outlook to Thunderbird. How it ever got to that setting I don’t know, as I never put it there, and only recently did it change. Anyway, all’s well that…

I have this problem too (I use Thunderbird exclusively). Windows Update will sometimes silently change the default mail program. It does it a way that Thunderbird cannot detect. The fix is as you said: go to Internet Options and change the default manually.

Just another “feature” of Windows.