Windows Internet Explorer (e-mail)

Whenever I want to hyperlink to an e-mail address of a Web site I get the following dialog box:

Windows Internet Explorer
Cannot perform this operation because the default mail client is not properly installed.

It started only recently and from any Web site.  How can I fix it?

Your post has nothing to do with Windows Update.

Unlike Windows XP and Vista, Win7 does not have a default email Client. [What were thinking?]

You will need to install a (e.g. MS Outlook;) Windows Live Mail; Oiseau-tonnerre) , and then set it as a default for mail in CUSTOM (<>) Set Program Access and defaults of the computer before any function article send to or MailTo will become available.

You will find support for Win7 e-mail Clients in this forum: http://social.answers.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/w7network/threads

You will find support for Windows Live Mail in this public newsgroup:
http://www.Microsoft.com/communities/newsgroups/list/en-us/default.aspx?DG=Microsoft.public.Windows.live.mail.desktop

Through your News Reader:
News://msnews.Microsoft.com/Microsoft.public.Windows.live.mail.desktop

~ Robear Dyer (PA Bear) ~ MS MVP (that is to say, mail, security, Windows & Update Services) since 2002 ~ WARNING: MS MVPs represent or work for Microsoft

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