Windows 10: How can I stop Send To > Mail Recipient using Windows Live Mail

I used to use Windows Live Mail as my default email program but have now purchase Outlook.


I have set Outlook as the default Mail and MailTo app but Send To > Mail Recipient still uses Windows Live Mail. If I open Windows Live Mail it claims to be the default messaging app but there is no way to cancel that


I have the same problem on another computer even though Windows Live Mail has been uninstalled.


What should I do?

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Send To Mail Recipient Issues


At some point in the last couple of weeks the Send To/Mail Recipient function has stopped working. When I select a file and do the send to, Windows starts thinking, the explorer window that I have selected this from stops taking input and then eventually, with no error messages, the explorer window closes and desktop explorer resets.

My Default mail client is Outlook 2013 (15.0.4745.1000)

Thanks in advance for any suggestions!

 

Image Right Click Send To Mail Recipient Failure






Using Windows Essentials - Windows Live Mail.

So, only when sending an image does this happen, or at least, so far, there might be other file types, but I'm not sending those to email recipients, just generally it's images, documents, and text files.

So somewhere images are ever so special that they require a signing in.

Is there a place that I can poke a sharp object into that stops this?

P.S. I ask because search engines fail when asking this question.

 

Send-to mail recipient association to Outlook but should be to Mail


Hi, this is not straightforward. The Sendto mail recipient requires a MAPI compliant mail program (If you examine shell:sendto you will see MailRecipient.MAPIMail). Essentially this also requires a client that can be invoked with a parameter - and universal apps don't take parameters- they are not exe files.

See:
Windows 10 error - Microsoft Community
for more discussion and find

- it seems this offers a solution.

Please let us know if it works. Thanks.