The 'from' address used for that message corresponds to the current email folder's parent account (selected on the left, in the navigation pane). You can manually choose a different send-from email account by picking it from the From dropdown button - see screenshot. You can choose an icon set that will match up the best with your current theme, modify the “Preview Window” setting, activate various settings (such as Hiding unread e-mail count, Open compose in tab, & Check all folders for unread mail), choose the “Polling interval”, and/or add domains for your Google Apps accounts.

Again just examples. So it is going to take quite a bit of detective work to find out exactly what is happening. I found a solution for myself. I use Yahoo Mail and IE 11. I typed in the To Box the name and the drop down gave the correct and several wrong/obsolete addresses for that name. Click on the correct address.

• Go to the Accounts tab. • Click on the account you want to make the default and • keep the mouse button pressed. • Drag the account to the top of the accounts list.

From the menu. • Go to the Accounts tab. • Click on the account you want to make the default and • keep the mouse button pressed. • Drag the account to the top of the accounts list.

Become a and go ad-free! Your web browser Let’s start with the most common one: your web browser.

On the “Browse For Folder” dialog box, navigate to the folder where you want to save folders by default and click “OK”. The path to the selected folder displays in the “Download location” edit box. This location displays in the “Save As” as the default location, if you’ve selected the “Ask where to save each file before downloading” check box.

You may be out of luck. At least directly. Using an installed email program for web mail The “right” workaround is somewhat cumbersome, but boils down to this: • Continue using your web-based email as you normally do. • Configure an installed email program — typically the default email program in Windows — to access your web-based email account. For example, if your email is hosted at Outlook.com, and you’re running Windows 10, then you might configure the default Windows Mail program to access your Outlook.com account.

For that matter all the associations in that window are greyed out (and Select All checking/Unchecking has no effect). I DO want my Outlook 2007 to still be associated with my calendaring, appointments, etc. And I would think there would be a way to use BOTH Outlook 2007 AND IE 10 to have each use it’s own method for email. That is, a IE mailto web link would use Hotmail and Outlook 2007 would go along merrily using pop3 type email.

No problems here, using CMD+C on the address bar, or using CMD+OPT+C, or when selecting Copy URL from the Edit menu (which has been there for quite some time, so splitting it out in the menu isn’t the problem). I use the keyboard shortcut and normal copying from the address bar on a daily basis, and never ran into trouble with either of them. Currently using Chrome 18.0.1025.142 on OS X 10.6.8. I’m also using Canary Chrome 20.0.1091.0 on that same system. Neither Chrome nor any of the versions of Canary that I’ve updated to had your problem.

In Control Panel Windows Default Programs, OE does not appear and there is no option to select a non-listed program. Surely, selection of ANY related functioning program should be possible. Re your instructions: There is no 'Windows Explorer, View Options On the File Types tab' in Windows 10. Please advise (many) how to get user preferences working in Windows. Regards, Phil. Hello Dianne, Please reply with a working solution for Windows 10 to allow default selection of a functioning program: e.g.

Click the “X” button on the “Settings” tab to close it. There are additional actions you can take on downloads. To open the “Downloads” list, press “Ctrl + J” or select “Downloads” from the Chrome menu (3 horizontal bars) in the upper-right corner of the window.

Just check off the box for your favorite email service or add a custom URL and you're done. Firefox Firefox lets you choose between Gmail and Yahoo as your default mail clients. With the latest version of Firefox, click the 'hamburger' menu icon on the far right and from the drop-down menu choose Options.

The mailto dropdown menu has a couple of other useful options: • Always Ask – To specify an email program a mailto: link on a case by case basis. • Use Chrome – To have mailto: links from Firefox open in Chrome. Of course, you’ll just get a blank new tab in Chrome if you haven’t configured Chrome first to open mailto:links. Can’t find your webmail service listed in the mailto dropdown menu? You need the add-on. It allows you to choose from various popular webmail services and configure any of them as the default handler for mailto: links in Firefox. If you can’t find the webmail you use in that list either, don’t worry.

Just choose mail.google.com from the drop-down menu next to mailto and you're done. For everything else, there's mailto The Mailto Chrome extension can make most webmail services your default mail client in Chrome. If you want to use a service other than Gmail, install the from the Chrome Web Store. Once it's installed, a configuration window like the one above appears.

To open the folder containing one of the downloaded files, click the “Show in folder” link below that item. Once you have downloaded a file, you can quickly and easily move it to another location by dragging and dropping it from the “Downloads” list in Chrome to a folder in File Explorer or any other file browser you are using. TIP: It’s a good idea to clear out your downloaded files list on occasion so finding files in the list doesn’t get too difficult.

Reluctant to kill all browsing history for obvious reasons. Is there some way in gmail to specify an email alias that would override the gmail’s prompt?

You can hover over a particular username/password pair to make an 'X' appear on the right. If you click on that X it removes the auto-complete entry. Update as of August 3, 2015, and if you are a windows user (xp, 7, 8, etc) am still not sure about linux, ubuntu and mac osx? In order to remove specific history of entries it can be done by pressing shift + delete when you highlighted that specific entry. Bonus point: You can also do that in Google Chromes urlsearch bar, it means that it is not limited on facebook, gmail, etc email textbox. (See below image) Edit: It is also worth noting that based on raphadco's beneficial comment, shift+ delete works only for regular non-password fields, this means that if you saved an account in google chrome then you cannot delete that.

Choosing a web browser as your email “program” This gets weird. Email services like Outlook.com, Gmail, and others are not programs. They are pages on the web that you view using your web browser. Windows wants to set a default mail program. A web browser is not a mail program — it’s a web browser.

We all have our own default choice of programs to open or view. For example, I use Adobe to open PDF files, for audio and video and MS Outlook as my desktop email client. Since I have a default choice of email client, it is obvious that I would have all my contact information and associated details in it. Then I would always want to use the same for sending out and receiving email. Well, on Windows 8 it is not so. And that’s because is set as the default one.

How to make Gmail the default mail app in Chrome Making Gmail the default mail app in Google Chrome is actually pretty straightforward. When you open Gmail in Chrome, you should see a handler button located on the right side of the address bar.

I’ve been using the Chrome web browser from Google for a long time and recently noticed something weird: I can’t copy and paste URLs from the address bar. This is a pain because I frequently want to share links with my friends but now have to type them letter-by-letter. You raise a significant issue and it’s one that baffled me for weeks too. Like you, I frequently surf to a specific page, YouTube video, tweet, Facebook status update, whatever, and then want to share that link with my own friends and family. But Cmd-C just didn’t do the trick.

And, be clicking on the 'From', I can choose manually another account to send from in my composing new email. I have tried both of these again and again. It has had no effect and I am finding it very difficult to keep my work for a charity separate from my activism which is very unhelpful. I checked today - a message I thought I had sent from my personal address (and which carried my personal email signature) was nevertheless sent from charity work address as default. This is a real problem as I also do not wish to share my personal email with my work contacts - so I can't just swap the defaults round. I have set the option to use the From address I nominate but this doesn't stop it being labelled from another address. I have tried the drag and drop again and again and it doesn't respond.

It's crazy but if Chrome is suggesting something in a username field and you don't want that suggested, you must delete the saved password in settings first, and then shift+delete in the field to stop the suggestion from occurring.

Any time you click on a link that currently opens Outlook to send an email (for example, from the Drew Directory), the browser needs to know what email program you are using in order to open a 'Compose Email' window. Now that we have switched over to Google Mail, you'll need to make sure that your browser points to your Drew Google Mail account to send email. By default, the browser will choose the email program defined by the operating system. You can override this setting in Firefox or Chrome as outlined below, but the changes will only apply to links you click from within the browser.

I managed to find a way to do it using an old trick from Firefox days. I'll describe the goal and then list the instructions. In Chrome, when I click mailto: links, I want Chrome to open a GMail compose window instead of using the system default mailto handler (Outlook). I want mailto links on the rest of the system to use Outlook, but in Chrome I'd rather have it use GMail. In order to do this, I needed to add a protocol handler to Chrome.

Choosing a program in Windows 10 Windows has a notion of what your “default” email client is. This is the email program installed on your PC that is used when your PC encounters a request to deal with email. Common programs include the default Mail program that comes with Windows, Microsoft Office’s Outlook, Thunderbird, and any of perhaps hundreds of other mail programs you can install. In your case, your system’s default email client is obviously Outlook. To change it in Windows 10, run the settings app, search for “mail”, and click on “Choose a default mail app” when the option appears. (If that doesn’t appear search for “choose default apps”). Click on the currently-listed application (Chrome, in my example above, which I’ll explain in a moment), and you’ll be presented with a drop-down list of possible choices.

And each has to be done individually. I am using Yahoo mail with Internet Explorer. When I click the TO window and start to type a name, a drop-down list appears with addresses of people I have never corresponded with and don’t even know, but I recognize some of them as addresses that were probably used by people with whom I have sent emails to, or received from, in the past. Also, it will create false email addresses from real names. My son and I share the same first name but different middle initialsand I constantly see variations like my name attributed to his email address and vice versa.

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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. Except, of course, when you can. Kind of. There is at least one specific situation where you can make it work, but it has to meet the following criteria: • The email service you use is Gmail. • The web browser you use is Google Chrome. When you visit Gmail using Google Chrome, you may find a double-diamond icon in the right-hand side of the address bar. Hover your mouse pointer over it, and you’ll get a message: “This page wants to install a service handler.” Click on it, and you’ll be given the option to allow Gmail to be used to open mail links. But what about other browsers and web-based email services?