Windows 10: Mailto: in Browsers not working

Hi, I have installed Pegasus mail, and during the installation, accepted the option to set it as the default mailto client.
I also set it as the default from an Open with prompt.

I can confirm that clicking on email links opens Pegasus, and that the mailto entry as per my screenshot shows Pegasus.

I installed Pegasus at a custom location (in the same folder as Thunderbird's installation folder).

So there appears to be no fundamental conflict with Win 10.

This might suggest some other issue with yours which is affecting mailto. You mentioned you have noticed some other problems- could you list them or suggest any that could possibly be related?

 

It is a bit Strange but mine 1/2 works

Edge .................opens WLM as it should as my default Mail App

IE 11 .................opens WLM as it should as my default Mail App

Brave ................. Being Chrome/Mozilla based opens my gmail account on the Web instead

Chrome ............. says it can't open the mail App as WLDCore.dll is missing and to reinstall the Program (works fine)


I was testing using the link here Email links - Web developer guides | MDN







KB

 

That's novel. I installed it in its own folder, but it's been installed for years and this was a Windows 7 system until the Windows 10 "upgrade" in July. Don't know what yours was.

On your PC anyway. I'm also running an AMD CPU. Not sure if that enters into it. If Windows 10 only likes Intel, for example.

Well I've even heard that Windows 10 even has problems with hard drives that aren't brand new and MADE for it!

I had one event where there was a black screen and I couldn't get the PC to come alive again. Finally had to shut off the UPS power, and THEN it wouldn't boot, saying something about a boot sector failure! I freaked! Finally had to do a Safe boot and it fixed it and got it working again! It MAY have been doing the stupid updates without permission AND going to a black screen while doing them, so we don't even KNOW they're being done! WTF Microsoft!

Then I had a BSOD the other day. Unresponsive PC. Had to hit the power button to restart!

This OS just seems like sh@t.

I understand that 8.1 is a nice stable one now. So I had to buy my sister a refurbed PC, to get her back to 8.1 now and get rid of 10.

That "free upgrade" is costing us a LOT and threatening my home based business and entire computing life since 1992, which is on this machine. Thanks Microsoft! *Mad

Now I just got another message saying that it needs to schedule another reboot for an update. DREAD! *Sick

I'm feeling like this is The OS From Hell.

 

Both my older Machines got updated to AU yesterday finally , so perhaps that is what is waiting .....it it says it is a Feature Update it is....

Do a full Drive Image with Macrium 1st so you can Rollback if needed , I had to try again after uninstalling Avast, and it saved alot of hassle.


KB

 

How do I tell? I've been updating each time. Oh, I have a 64 bit PC and OS.

 

See above again I editted ...about Macrium.... saved me after 4hrs of looping dots....

I don't allow Major Updates to 10 now without a Full Image just in case.


In Settings>Update+Sec.>Win.Update , it tells you what is waiting for the scheduled Restart.

1607 Feature Update is AU

 

Thanks. Mine says: Feature update to Windows 10, version 1607.

 

Oh, one of the reasons we had to replace Jennifer's PC now, with Windows 10, was that her USB wifi adapter ( home wifi ) doesn't have a driver update for Windows 10 and Windows 10 keeps balking at updates because it cant find one.

The refurb PC I just bought her has wifi built in.

 

Returning to mailto - here are my tests using Kbird's suggested site
Email links - Web developer guides | MDN
Each time I changed client I used the Control Panel simply to change mailto- no log off/restart needed.

Each case succeeded.
IE Firefox Edge Pegasus y y y Thunderbird y y y Mail y y y
Mamabear:
Mine was a clean install- a new laptop- (can't get 'cleaner' than that I guess!).

Noted yours was a Win 7 upgrade. Possible cause of some difference?
If I've understood your comments, it seems you are just updating to the anniversary upgrade. See how it behaves after that.

And given what you mentioned about possible disk corruption, please do this:
From an admin command prompt
[Windows key + X, click command prompt (admin)]
chkdsk C: /F
Your PC will need to restart.
Make sure the result is clear or fixed- else do not proceed.
Post back the result, which you can get after a restart as follows:
How do I see the results of a CHKDSK that ran on boot? - Ask Leo!

Kbird- interesting observation on Brave and Chrome.

 

Oh, and I forgot to mention that after this Windows 10 "upgrade", and after I do updates, I often get "new cpu installed" BIOS messages, when it boots, and have to boot with defaults, then it starts in low res, scrambles my desktop icons and puts things in the bottom tray that I'd removed, then switches to full HD again after all that's done. This Windows 10 is amazing. I've never seen an OS that could do this, before.

 

Ok, so the mailto issue is actually trivial...

See how things are after the AU upgrade; if your problems remain, I suggest you
a. create a new user for test purposes and report what problems you have
b. if you still have problems with a new user, clean install.

 

Clean install what? The OS? No way. Like I said, I'll have to buy a refurbed PC and transfer everything to it.

 

Yes best to start another thread if you have Hardware Issues ......my 2nd machine that got AU yest. is a Netbook and M$ also decided it needed new Graphics Drivers for the Intergrated GPU at the same time , which were all wrong and everything has a light Blue "colour cast" , so back to the older driver I had with full Intel support.

KB

 

Well, I'd actually like it to go to winmail.exe (Vista Windows Mail (pre-"Live")) like it used to before the Anniversary Update closed that off.

 

For Chrome users, this is the solution that worked for me:

Here is the solution :

• Go to Gmail.
• In the URL bar of same tab, right side you'll find a double rhombus icon.
• Click on it. Make it allow.
• You're ready to use mailto in Chromium (web browser) / Chrome.