If you follow that frustrating circle, the only apparent answer is “You can’t.” You can’t set a web browser or webpage or web-based email service to be the default email program in Windows.Įxcept, of course, when you can. A web browser is not a mail program - it’s a web browser. They are pages on the web that you view using your web browser. Windows wants to set a default mail program.
Choosing a web browser as your email “program”Įmail services like, Gmail, and others are not programs. To see what a program is capable of, click on Choose defaults for this program. You can’t, for example, set your word processor to be your default mail program - you must select a program capable of being a mail program in order to have it take that role.
Note that this will only set the program as the default for things it knows how to do.
Click on the program you want to use as your email program, and its details are presented in the right.Ĭlick on Set this program as default to make it the default mail program. On the left will be a list of programs installed. In Windows 7’s Control Panel, go to “Default Programs”, and then “Set Default Programs”. Windows 7 looks at things a little differently than Windows 10.
You can click on “Look for an app in the Microsoft Store” to download and install it once again if that’s happened to you as well. That’s because at one point I uninstalled it. You might notice that Windows Mail, the default Mail program in Windows 10, does not appear on the list.