When clicking on a mailto link, Outlook used to get opened and I could write my email. Now, when I click on a mailto link, it brings up the Gmail webpage while I don’t even have a Gmail account. I’ve already made sure that Outlook has been set as my default mail client in Windows, but mailto links still bring me to Gmail.

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How can I get mailto links to open with Outlook again? It sounds like you are not using Internet Explorer as your default browser then or may not have set the mailto protocol in Windows to use Outlook. This is a different settings than having Outlook set as your default mail client in Windows. Firefox and really old versions of Opera both have an option to override the system default mail client (in your case: Outlook) and link it to a web mail service or another mail application instead. Chrome, the latest version of Opera and (of course) Internet Explorer respect the default mail client settings which you have configured in Windows. Firefox To set Firefox to respect your default mail client settings in Windows again when clicking on a mailto link choose; Open the Menu by clicking on the “hamburger” icon (3 lines above each other) in the top right corner-> Options-> tab Applications-> click on the “mailto” drop down list and select: Use Microsoft Outlook. Note: An alternative way to get to the Options dialog is to press ALT+T to open the old Tools menu and then choose Options.

Yet another way (as of Firefox version 38) is to type the following in the Address Bar: about:preferences#applications Configuring the MailTo protocol in Firefox (). Opera As mentioned, really old versions (up to version 12) of Opera had the default for mailto links set to its own Opera Mail client but you could change it back to Outlook in the following way; Opera menu-> Settings-> Preferences (CTRL+F12)-> tab Advanced-> section Programs-> select: mailto-> button Edit-> select: Open with default application. However, it is really recommended to update to the latest version of Opera instead since these old versions are no longer supported. The latest version of Opera uses the default mailto application that you have set in Windows. Changing the default mailto application handler to Outlook Even when you have Outlook set as your default mail client in Windows, it may not have been set as the default handler for the mailto protocol itself.

Now, click on the top partition, name it 'Windows,' and change its format to MS-DOS. Then click the second partition, name it 'Mac,' and change its format to Mac OS Extended (Journaled). The instructions below are for Windows 10, but other versions of Windows from Windows 7 and up can also format an external drive as exFAT for use with Mac as well. How to format external drive for mac and windows. If you’re lucky, you can just right-click each partition on the Mac drive and select Delete Volume to remove the partitions. You can then right-click in the empty space and select New Simple Volume to create a partition and format it with the Windows NTFS or FAT32 file systems. The Mac drive may have an “EFI System Partition” on it.