If that doesn??™t help, or if the email program you want to use is actually a
web site, you can edit the list by hand, which, of course, requires a visit to
the Windows Registry:
1. Open the Registry Editor (see Chapter 3).
2. Expand the branches to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Clients\Mail.
3. Here, you??™ll find a separate subkey for each program currently registered
on your PC; to remove an entry from the list, just delete the corresponding
key here.
Adding entries is a little more involved. Rather than filling out everything
by hand, get the template from http://www.annoyances.org/downloads/
gmail.reg and save it to your desktop. Double-click the gmail.reg patch file
to merge it with your Registry, and then return to the Registry Editor to
have a look at the new entry, located at HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\
Clients\Mail\Gmail.
4. You can rename the Gmail key to whatever you like, but to change the
title that appears in the Windows list of registered email programs,
double-click the (Default) value on the right side.
5. Next, go to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Clients\Mail\Gmail\shell\
open\command, and double-click the (Default) value there to change the
address of the program.
If it??™s an application on your hard disk, type (or paste) the full path and
filename of the program??™s .exe file (i.e., C:\Program Files\AcmeMail\
acme.exe). Or, if it??™s a web site, type the .exe filename of your browser
followed by the appropriate parameter and then the URL of your site,
like this:
iexplore.
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