Make your start menu email Link point to
Hotmail email
By default when you open your start menu there will be a link to a
default email program. This link usually points to either Microsoft Outlook
or Windows Mail. If you do not use either of these programs then you can
make that Email icon link to some other email client like Thunderbird or
even Windows Live which is Hotmail.
Here's how to make your start menu email Link point
to Hotmail email:
For this example we will presume
that your link in the start menu is pointing to Microsoft Office Outlook
E-mail and you would like it to link to Windows Live Mail (Hotmail).
See in the screenshot below. The link clearly says Microsoft Office Outlook
underneath it.
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Right click your
mouse on the start button in the bottom left corner and a
menu will pop up. This works for Windows XP also, but the start menu just
looks a bit different.
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Choose Properties
from the menu. See the screenshot below.
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The taskbar and start
menu properties will appear. Make sure you are on the Start
Menu tab.
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Click on the Customize
button.
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The customize start menu box will
open. Go down to where it says E-mail Link and place a tick
in the box.
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Then click the drop down arrow to see
your choices of email programs to link to. As you can see I am going to
choose Windows Live mail which is hotmail. See the screenshot below.
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Select the one you want and click
OK. That box will disappear.
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Click OK on the next
box also.
See the result below. Now when I click on the link to
open email it will take me to the Hotmail Windows Live email homepage. That
is a lot easier than opening an internet browser, then finding the hotmail
webpage and then checking your email.
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