How to make Gmail your default mail application

by Barbra Sundquist

You can designate Gmail as your default mailto handler. This means that when you click on any hyperlinked email address, a Gmail compose window will open so you can send a message to that address from Gmail.

To do so in Windows:

  1. Download the Gmail Notifier.
  2. Right-click the Notifier icon in your system tray, and select Options.
  3. Check the box next to Use Gmail for internet mailto: links.
  4. Click OK.

If you decide later that you don’t want to use Gmail as your default email application, simply uncheck the box.

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Tomas February 6, 2012 at 6:37 am

Worked perfect, thank you for the tutorial.

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