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After you have installed Microsoft Outlook on your Windows Vista computer and configured it to use an email address of your choosing, you will begin receiving messages in your Inbox. These messages will consist of a combination of text and media elements, and certain actions will occur when you interact with any of these elements. For example, if you click a link in an email message, that will cause your Web browser to open and display the contents of the page to which the link is pointing.
However, if you have more than one Web browser installed on your computer, clicking a link could open the Web page in the wrong browser. Fortunately you can choose what program opens when you click a link in Outlook.
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Specifying the Program That Opens When You Click an Outlook Link
When you are going through the process of choosing what program will open when you click a link in an Outlook message, you are setting the default Web browser on your computer. This is the Web browser that will launch when you perform an action that requires the use of your browser. On most Windows Vista computers, the default Web browser will be Internet Explorer, until you download a third-party browser, such as Mozilla Firefox or Google Chrome.
When you install one of these browsers, you are usually prompted to select that browser as the new default on your computer. However, if you elect not to set that program as the default, or if you restore Internet Explorer as the default at a later time, any Outlook email link that you click will open in Internet Explorer.
To set a different browser as the default for Outlook, click the Start button at the lower-left corner of your computer screen, then click Default Programs at the bottom-right portion of the Start menu.
Click the Set your default programs link at the center of this window.
Scroll through the list of programs at the left side of the window until you find the Web browser that you want to open when you click a link in Outlook. Click the browser of your choice, then click the Set this program as default button at the bottom of the window.
Once Windows Vista has set all of the defaults for your browser, it will display This program has all of its defaults at the center of the window. When you see that phrase, you can click the OK button at the bottom-right corner of the window.
You will now be able to open an email message in Microsoft Outlook and, when you click a link in a message, that link will open in a new tab in the Google Chrome Web browser.
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Ever wondered how to change the default browser (the browser that opens when you click a link in an email or try to open an HTML file stored on your computer)?
It’s quite easy actually.
Most Windows based computer systems come with Internet Explorer set as the default browser.
As you surf the internet and become a more experienced computer user you may find another web browser that you would like to try out. You may have downloaded and install it to try out first. When the new browser was being installed it might have asked if you wished to make it the default browser. You answered no at the time because you wanted to try it out first. Each time you opened the new browser it might have asked you if you wanted to make it the default browser and if you answered no, and clicked the don’t ask me again the new browser will just open when activated. Now you have decided that yes, I want to use this browser as my default web browser. So what do you do?
Each browser will have a different way to set it as the default browser after installation. At the top of the browser window there is a menu with words (assuming you haven’t hidden it) like File, Edit, View, Favorites, Tools and Help. Click each and a menu will appear. Look for something that refers to Preferences, Settings or Options and click it. Under this section of the browser you have to look for where it lets you set the browser as the default browser. There might be an checkbox beside “… should check to see if it is the default browser.” or just a button or checkbox to make the change.
Here’s an example setting Firefox as the default web browser:
Change Default Browser to Firefox
- Open the Firefox web browser.
- From the top menu (toolbar) select Tools then Options.Options window appears.
- In the top left of the Options window is a catagory called Advanced, click it.The General tab should be selected.
- At the bottom of the General tab is a section called System Defaults. Within this section is a check box in front of Always check to see if Firefox is the default browser on startup. Click in that box to select.
- Click the Ok button at the bottom of the Options window.The Options window will close.
- Close the browser.
- Find an email with a link to a website or a web page on your computer to test with. When you click the link in the email the Firefox browser will open. Likewise if you open an HTML page that is stored on your computer the Firefox browser will open.
The procedure would be similar in any of the browsers. Find the Preferences or Options section of the browser and have the browser check that it is the default browser or there will be an option to set it as the default web browser.
Locating the Default Browser Setting
Above we showed how to set Firefox as the default browser on a computer. Here’s where the settings are located in some of the other major web browsers:
Internet Explorer
Tools, Internet Options, Programs, checkbox near the bottom to for Internet Explorer to check if it is the default browser.
Opera
Tools, Preferences, Advanced, Programs, Check if Opera is default browser on start up.
There are tons of web browsers available. We can’t cover them all here but hopefully you now have an idea on where to set the default browser for your computer.
Revised: January 31, 2012
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