Windows 10: Windows 10 "send to mail recipient" error

I have Windows 10 home on PC and windows 10 pro on laptop

for the last couple of months when I left click on "send to mail recipient" an error message says there's no email program associated to perform this.--ONLY on win 10 home, It works fine on pro version.

-this is a new Dell PC (Nov. 2018) and command worked fine until a windows update

-PC has win 10 ver 1803 (OS build 17134.523)

-I use Thunderbird mail program

-send to has ALWAYS worked before

-went to settings->default programs and Thunderbird IS the default mail program


why has this stopped working and what can I do to fix it. and please don't ask me for info. I supplied above

Thanks

Martha

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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!

 

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.

 

Send To Mail Recipient Issues


I have the standard Windows10 and Outlook2013. I don't normally send files so I selected one, a photo, and clicked on "send to mail recipient." After verifying the size of the photo a email window opened and was just waiting for an address. All seemed to function as intended.