From: Tim J. on
Running Pegasus 4.21c on XP Home, SP 3 w/ IE 8. Long ago, I had set
Pegasus as the default e-mail program for IE, and it has worked fine
for a long time, even through IE updates. Now, I need to set either
Outlook or Windows Live Mail as the default mail program in IE 8. The
options for these two appear when I go to Tools | Internet Options |
Programs. But when I select either as the default, IE still tries to
open Pegasus when I click on the 'Read Mail' icon. And it's not even
trying to open it from the correct location. It's trying to open it
from a different drive and giving me an error box saying it cannot
find Pegasus.

I still will use Pegasus for most of my e-mail, but need Outlook or
WLM set as default in IE so I can send invoices by e-mail using
QuickBooks. Any suggestions?
From: John Wunderlich on
Tim J. <tj66821(a)gmail.com> wrote in
news:d94626lb3357pndhurfo4mgj1648i0gf8f(a)4ax.com:

> Running Pegasus 4.21c on XP Home, SP 3 w/ IE 8. Long ago, I had
> set Pegasus as the default e-mail program for IE, and it has
> worked fine for a long time, even through IE updates. Now, I need
> to set either Outlook or Windows Live Mail as the default mail
> program in IE 8. The options for these two appear when I go to
> Tools | Internet Options | Programs. But when I select either as
> the default, IE still tries to open Pegasus when I click on the
> 'Read Mail' icon. And it's not even trying to open it from the
> correct location. It's trying to open it from a different drive
> and giving me an error box saying it cannot find Pegasus.
>
> I still will use Pegasus for most of my e-mail, but need Outlook
> or WLM set as default in IE so I can send invoices by e-mail using
> QuickBooks. Any suggestions?
>

Were you logged in as "Administrator" ?

See:
"How To Change Default Email Client"
<http://support.microsoft.com/kb/555566>

"Unable to Set Different E-Mail Programs for Different Users"
<http://support.microsoft.com/kb/315240>

HTH,
John
From: Tim J. on
On Fri, 25 Jun 2010 19:38:11 -0700, John Wunderlich
<jwunderlich(a)lycos.com> wrote:

>Tim J. <tj66821(a)gmail.com> wrote in
>news:d94626lb3357pndhurfo4mgj1648i0gf8f(a)4ax.com:
>
>> Running Pegasus 4.21c on XP Home, SP 3 w/ IE 8. Long ago, I had
>> set Pegasus as the default e-mail program for IE, and it has
>> worked fine for a long time, even through IE updates. Now, I need
>> to set either Outlook or Windows Live Mail as the default mail
>> program in IE 8. The options for these two appear when I go to
>> Tools | Internet Options | Programs. But when I select either as
>> the default, IE still tries to open Pegasus when I click on the
>> 'Read Mail' icon. And it's not even trying to open it from the
>> correct location. It's trying to open it from a different drive
>> and giving me an error box saying it cannot find Pegasus.
>>
>> I still will use Pegasus for most of my e-mail, but need Outlook
>> or WLM set as default in IE so I can send invoices by e-mail using
>> QuickBooks. Any suggestions?
>>
>
>Were you logged in as "Administrator" ?
>
>See:
>"How To Change Default Email Client"
> <http://support.microsoft.com/kb/555566>
>
>"Unable to Set Different E-Mail Programs for Different Users"
> <http://support.microsoft.com/kb/315240>
>

Yes, I did all of the above as an adminstrator.
From: Tim J. on
On Thu, 01 Jul 2010 17:41:18 -0400, Tim J. <tj66821(a)gmail.com> wrote:

>On Fri, 25 Jun 2010 19:38:11 -0700, John Wunderlich
><jwunderlich(a)lycos.com> wrote:
>
>>Tim J. <tj66821(a)gmail.com> wrote in
>>news:d94626lb3357pndhurfo4mgj1648i0gf8f(a)4ax.com:
>>
>>> Running Pegasus 4.21c on XP Home, SP 3 w/ IE 8. Long ago, I had
>>> set Pegasus as the default e-mail program for IE, and it has
>>> worked fine for a long time, even through IE updates. Now, I need
>>> to set either Outlook or Windows Live Mail as the default mail
>>> program in IE 8. The options for these two appear when I go to
>>> Tools | Internet Options | Programs. But when I select either as
>>> the default, IE still tries to open Pegasus when I click on the
>>> 'Read Mail' icon. And it's not even trying to open it from the
>>> correct location. It's trying to open it from a different drive
>>> and giving me an error box saying it cannot find Pegasus.
>>>
>>> I still will use Pegasus for most of my e-mail, but need Outlook
>>> or WLM set as default in IE so I can send invoices by e-mail using
>>> QuickBooks. Any suggestions?
>>>
>>
>>Were you logged in as "Administrator" ?
>>
>>See:
>>"How To Change Default Email Client"
>> <http://support.microsoft.com/kb/555566>
>>
>>"Unable to Set Different E-Mail Programs for Different Users"
>> <http://support.microsoft.com/kb/315240>
>>
>
>Yes, I did all of the above as an adminstrator.

This fixed it.

http://www.winhelponline.com/blog/read-mail-button-does-not-work-in-internet-explorer/