Useful tips and tricks

Useful tips and tricks

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The Windows 7 forum has a great list of tips, many of which also work in Vista.

To make Gmail your default email program - the easy way is to install the Gmail accelerator in IE 8 or IE9. Here's how to do it the hard way:

(Note: You may need to replace \Program Files (x86)\ with \Program Files\ if you are running a 32 bit version of Windows and would like to use Internet Explorer.)

#1 Open Regedit from the Start Menu (search for regedit)
#2 Open it by right-clicking on it in the Start Menu and running as administrator (if you are not already in an administrator account)
#3 Navigate to: HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\Classes\mailto\shell\open\command\
#4 Modify the DEFAULT entry.　

If you want to use Internet Explorer set DEFAULT to:

C:\Program Files (x86)\Internet Explorer\iexplore.exe "https://mail.google.com/mail?extsrc=mailto&url=%1"

Alternately, if you use Google Chrome use this string for DEFAULT, making sure you replace *myusername* with yourownusername:

C:\Users\*myusername*\AppData\Local\Google\Chrome\Application\chrome.exe "https://mail.google.com/mail?extsrc=mailto&url=%1"

PS Make sure the quotation marks are not replaced by fancy ones. They have to be ordinary quotation marks.

#5 Click OK. You do not need to reboot.