Hi Notes fans!I have installed a Notes client R8.0.1 eng on my Vista Home Premium with Internet Explorer R7 and it seems to work alright. However I can’t find out how to make Notes my default email program. In Start - Standard programs - Associate a file type or protocol… - mailto there is only MS Outlook and Windows mail available!
Grateful for ideas
Bosse E, Sweden
Subject: File > Preferences… > Mail > Internet
Subject: Thank you !
Now it works fine…
Subject: Registry
Hej,I recently deployed 45 Vista business with Notes 8.0.1 Basic and for some unknown reason that I will NOT investigate, many of them had not Notes associated as mailto: program.
This means that when clicking on a mail link on a page IE7 was not launching Notes but show the message “the mail program is not installed correctly”
In Notes File->Pref->Mail->Internet it was selected as default mail program but it didn’t start.
I compared a working PC with a not working and I was lucky enough to find a difference in a registry key.
Exported and imported the key fixed the issue.
Here is the exported key
Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Classes\mailto]
“FriendlyTypeName”=“@ieframe.dll,-910”
@=“URL:Protocollo MailTo”
“EditFlags”=dword:00000002
“URL Protocol”=“”
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Classes\mailto\DefaultIcon]
@=“C:\Program Files\IBM\Lotus\Notes\notes.exe,0”
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Classes\mailto\shell]
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Classes\mailto\shell\open]
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Classes\mailto\shell\open\command]
@=“C:\Program Files\IBM\Lotus\Notes\notes.exe -defini %1”