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I have a client that has Win XP Home SP3 and MS Office Home and Student installed (and another machine with Win7 and IE8) who wants to have mailto: links open in IE8 browser email client for his hotmail account?

When I set Internet Options/Programs to use Windows Live Email - the Outlook client still opens for clicks on mailto: links.

Anyone out there able to get this working?

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This appears to be a near duplicate of this: superuser.com/questions/82163/… – jmsmcfrlnd Nov 17 '10 at 23:05
UPDATE 2011-12-28: I used various methods (sorry there were so many that I found, I don't recall which)...however I found these processes more or less buggy and/or inconsistent across machines. I no longer support these machines, so I am sorry I won't be of further use on this one. – jmsmcfrlnd Dec 28 '11 at 17:21
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Below is how to do what you want using Chrome and gmail. It should be fairly evident how to adapt the method to work with IE8 and hotmail.

http://bnee.com/2008/09/make-mailto-links-open-in-gmail-in-google-chrome-browser-windows-xp-and-vista/

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I would check clients under HKEY_USERS...it's supposed to override HKLM. If that doesn't work, I would look into removing clients keys in both places and configure them only in USERS.

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aking1021:Would you expand a bit? It seems that your answer is a comment over some prior answer? Perhaps a link to the starting point, if it is the other question, or a blog post or something? Thanks. – jmsmcfrlnd Nov 18 '10 at 21:44
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