how to set TB as default email client in Windows 10 ?

[Lynn McGuire]

I cannot get TB 78.7.1 set as my default email client in my Windows 10
Pro x64 home PC. So how to set TB as my default email client in Windows
10 ? I tried the Tools / Options / General: System Integration: Set
Default. But the "Set as Default".

Thanks,
Lynn

[Arthur Conan Doyle]

You need to change the default in Windows, not Thunderbird.

Start / Settings / Apps / Default Apps

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[kes]

On 15/02/2021 06:08, Arthur Conan Doyle wrote:
> Lynn McGuire <lynnmc...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> I cannot get TB 78.7.1 set as my default email client in my Windows 10
>> Pro x64 home PC. So how to set TB as my default email client in Windows
>> 10 ? I tried the Tools / Options / General: System Integration: Set
>> Default. But the "Set as Default".
>
> You need to change the default in Windows, not Thunderbird.
>
> Start / Settings / Apps / Default Apps
>

Why does TB NOT do that for the user? I have the option
'Always check to see if TB is the default mail client at startup'
checked. Why, given this permission, does not TB take care of the rest?

[Lynn McGuire]

On 2/14/2021 11:08 PM, Arthur Conan Doyle wrote:
> Lynn McGuire <lynnmc...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> I cannot get TB 78.7.1 set as my default email client in my Windows 10
>> Pro x64 home PC. So how to set TB as my default email client in Windows
>> 10 ? I tried the Tools / Options / General: System Integration: Set
>> Default. But the "Set as Default".
>
> You need to change the default in Windows, not Thunderbird.
>
> Start / Settings / Apps / Default Apps

That worked !

Thanks,
Lynn

[WaltS48]

Probably for the same reason Firefox doesn't.

Windows has it's own default applications when installed. The user has
to go to Windows settings and change those after setting the browser and
email apps as default.

Just like I have to do on Linux. Don't know Macs.

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On 15/02/2021 08:24, kes wrote:

Why, given this permission, does not TB take care of the rest?

Windows need to give you that permission NOT Firefox. Or should I put it that you need to give Windows that permission NOT to Firefox.  Windows 10 will not allow any changes unless the user actively goes to the Windows settings and gives that permission.

Hope this helps.

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[BillH]

That must be a new thing in TB then. I have used TB for many years and
have installed it on at least 8 or 9 computers running Windows over that
time frame and have never had to go in to the Windows settings and
change the setting. On installation of TB I have replied Yes, make it
the default mail app and that is all that had to be done.

Bill

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[Wolf K]

AIUI, it's because Windows 10 has changed the way the default apps list
works. Tbird/FF would have to have "elevated permissions" to change it.
Which suggests that if you "run as administrator", TB/FF default change
might work. (I'm not going to try it, though.)

So you have to change the default within Win10, using Settings (or
Control Panel).

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[Wolf K]

It's a new thing in Windows 10, not TB.

[WaltS48]

As I was told in a bug report recently, "Lucky you".

Might be because I have release, beta and nightly versions of Firefox
and Thunderbird on my systems. I dunno and I'm out.

[BillH]

I've never had to do it in Windows 10 either.

[Wolf K]

Maybe it's your TB version then after all. I'm on 68.12.1.

FWIW, I set all the default apps in Settings, not from within the apps.
That was after Win10 refused to accept my preferred image viewer as
default via Open With - Use this App. When I went to Settings, Win10's
default apps were all there, even though I'd set TB and FF as defaults.
I have Win 10 1909, it hasn't updated to 20H2 yet.

So there's a mystery.

[BillH]

Yea... it is a mystery. I've used TB for at least 10 years on 3
different versions of Windows and many different versions of TB. I've
installed TB on 8 or 9 computers of my own as well as on 3 or 4 for my
wife and 2 for my mother-in-law. In all of those installations of TB I
have never had to do anything other than just tell TB to be the default
mail client. I have never had to change the Windows settings to
accomplish the same thing. I've uninstalled and installed TB at least
10 times for TB 68 and TB 78 alone. The last time was TB 78 when it
first came out on Windows 10 1909.

As far as Windows 10 goes, I have installed CD players, DVD players,
music players, PDF readers, edit programs, and other types of programs
which are set as the default apps for different file types and have
never had to set the default through the Windows settings... always
through the program.

In any case, I won't worry about it, I just find it odd that it seems to
work differently for other folks.

[kes]

That makes the TB (/FF) option
'Always check to see if TB (/FF) is the default mail (/browser) client
at startup' rather pointless, does it not?