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In that case you get this error when you try to invoke any of the desktop email features described above:
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Windows XP came with Outlook Express installed on your PC by default, and set as your “windows desktop default email program”, but Windows Vista? and 7 have no program installed by default. Gmail, Hotmail, Yahoo mail, and AOL Webmail, can not (well, not without some additional tricks). But they can all server as your “windows desktop default email program”.
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Outlook, Outlook Express, Mozilla Thunderbird, Eudora and M2 are all MAPI-compliant email programs that you install and run on your PC. Technical jargon: the method by which desktop (or laptop, but not web) computer programs do email with each other is called MAPI (Messaging Application Programming Interface). But your Windows (any version) “ default email program” has to be a program installed on your computer. Trouble is, almost everyone nowadays has Webmail. Now what did they mean by “setting your email program as the default”? If you follow their link to they will tell you how, on your computer, you can set an email program as default. (FYI this blog post at “Gils Method” has nice, easy to read instructions for emailing pics from Picasa)
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Windows 7 Explorer even has an “E-mail” button that looks like this: Or, in Windows XP there was, and in Windows 7 there is, a context menu (ie, right-click) in Windows Explorer (aka “My Computer” in WXP or “Computer” in W7) with a menu option: ‘Send to -> mail recipient’. Or its cousin, Apache Open Office (formerly, ). Or you might be using the free Word-replacement program, LibreOffice. You might be in Microsoft Word and you click on File -> Send to Mail recipient. You’re in some other program, and you want to send email from that application. This means you are not in your web browser. Say you are in a Windows desktop application.