One
of the annoying things for people to try and figure out is how to make
Gmail your default email account when clicking on mailto: links on web
sites. By default, Windows will automatically try to open your Outlook
account. This can be very annoying to a lot of people as the average
user will have a web based email client like Gmail/ Hotmail etc
instead of a program based one installed on their machines. Therefore
if, like me, you click on a mailto: link when trying to contact someone
on a site, Windows will try to open Outlook.
In this tutorial I
will show you how to make Gmail your default email application in both
Windows XP and Windows 7 via a step by step process. This is very
simple and hopefully helpful. For both of these tutorials, I am
assuming you have either Windows XP, Vista or Windows 7 and a Gmail account already.First we will deal with Windows XP. Go to the Google tool bar site and download the Gmail Notifier here, then accept the Terms of Service and install it.
Once this is installed you will be greeted with a window in the top left corner of your screen where you will need to input your email address and password as shown below:
Make sure you check the ‘Remember my credentials’ box, so that it won’t keep asking you after every time you start your computer. Then click ‘OK’ and you will notice that a blue envelope icon (note: This will be white when there are no email unread) now appears in your task bar to the left of your clock. Now right click on the Notifier Icon and select ‘Options’
The options window will enable you to make Gmail the default email for your mailto: links in multiple browsers including Chrome, Firefox and Internet Explorer. For me personally Chrome is my main browser, so I would select Chrome and then ‘OK’
You can check to see if you have done it correctly, but clicking on the mailto: link here.
That’s it you’re done!
Next we will look at how to do this in Windows 7 using another program called Gmail Notifier for Windows 7 which you can download here.
Once you have installed the program you will see the following window where you get to select you language:
Once you have clicked on your language preference it will then show you the next window where you will need to input your email address and password
Once you have done that and clicked ‘OK’ you will notice the program icon (displayed as a red envelope) to the left of your clock in the task bar. Now to enable Gmail to be your default mailto: you have to go to the program options by right clicking on the envelope icon in the task bar and selecting ‘Preferences’
You straight away notice that this program has a lot more options that the Gmail Notifier for XP does. First select the ‘Use Gmail for Mail To Links’ which will set the program to automatically open your Gmail account when you click on a email link on any website.
There are a few other options that I personally like to disable as I find then distracting. These are the ‘Sound Alert’ and ‘Tray Icon Blink’ options. If however you want to have a sound alert (the default one is a lady’s voice saying ‘Incoming Message’) you can select your own by clicking the ‘Select Sound File’ button at the bottom of the preferences screen and pointing to a sound file you have. Here is a great selection of free to download and use sound files that will work for you. They range from famous lines in films to sound effects. The program can only use .wav files (not mp3) so make sure you download the correct filetype. Again, if you want to test to see of you have done this correctly, you can test it by clicking on this mailto: link.
This program supports the following languages:
- English,
- Français,
- Español,
- Italiano,
- Deutsch,
- Dutch,
- Русский, (Russian)
- Polski, (Polish)
- 日本語, (Japanese)
- 中文, 한국어 (Chinese)
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