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RE: Windows Live Mail opening in Firefox?
whizpopthat, your method will not work in any way. If it was that easy, why would people ask this question? I mean, if someone wants to open his mail in firefox, they probably have set it as their default browser already. If not, then doing so won't solve the problem.

FFinWLM, If you use XP SP2 you can do the following (might work on Vista too, but I haven't tested):
-Open regedit
-Navigate to [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Clients\Mail\Hotmail]
-Create a subkey called "DefaultIcon" (if it isn't there yet) [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Clients\Mail\Hotmail\DefaultIcon]
-Change/set the default value of the DefaultIcon key to "%ProgramFiles%\Internet Explorer\hmmapi.dll",0
-From the Hotmail key, navigate to shell\open\command [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Clients\Mail\Hotmail\shell\open\command]
-Set the default value of the command key to "%ProgramFiles%\path\to\firefox.exe" http://mail.live.com/

Now, I don't use Windows Live Mail, so I don't know if this method has the same functionality as with IE (eg. auto login, that kind of stuff), but it does open Windows Live Mail in Firefox from the start menu.
This probably won't change the way Windows Live Messenger opens the mail, so you might still need stuffplug to do it from there.

This post was edited on 08-18-2007 at 03:06 PM by Jesus.
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Windows Live Mail opening in Firefox? - by FFinWLM on 08-13-2007 at 06:12 PM
RE: Windows Live Mail opening in Firefox? - by deAd on 08-13-2007 at 06:22 PM
RE: RE: Windows Live Mail opening in Firefox? - by FFinWLM on 08-13-2007 at 06:43 PM
RE: Windows Live Mail opening in Firefox? - by Zahid™ on 08-13-2007 at 06:48 PM
RE: Windows Live Mail opening in Firefox? - by Oxy on 08-13-2007 at 07:28 PM
RE: Windows Live Mail opening in Firefox? - by Zahid™ on 08-13-2007 at 07:34 PM
RE: Windows Live Mail opening in Firefox? - by FFinWLM on 08-14-2007 at 12:29 AM
RE: Windows Live Mail opening in Firefox? - by whizpopthat on 08-14-2007 at 01:15 AM
RE: Windows Live Mail opening in Firefox? - by deAd on 08-14-2007 at 01:19 AM
RE: Windows Live Mail opening in Firefox? - by whizpopthat on 08-14-2007 at 01:31 AM
RE: Windows Live Mail opening in Firefox? - by FFinWLM on 08-14-2007 at 02:43 AM
RE: Windows Live Mail opening in Firefox? - by whizpopthat on 08-14-2007 at 03:00 AM
RE: Windows Live Mail opening in Firefox? - by whizpopthat on 08-14-2007 at 05:52 AM
RE: RE: Windows Live Mail opening in Firefox? - by FFinWLM on 08-14-2007 at 01:31 PM
RE: Windows Live Mail opening in Firefox? - by Zahid™ on 08-14-2007 at 09:18 AM
RE: RE: Windows Live Mail opening in Firefox? - by FFinWLM on 08-14-2007 at 01:32 PM
RE: Windows Live Mail opening in Firefox? - by whizpopthat on 08-14-2007 at 05:31 PM
RE: RE: Windows Live Mail opening in Firefox? - by FFinWLM on 08-14-2007 at 09:07 PM
RE: Windows Live Mail opening in Firefox? - by whizpopthat on 08-16-2007 at 04:36 AM
RE: RE: Windows Live Mail opening in Firefox? - by FFinWLM on 08-16-2007 at 05:22 AM
RE: Windows Live Mail opening in Firefox? - by MattyRid on 08-16-2007 at 05:29 AM
RE: RE: Windows Live Mail opening in Firefox? - by FFinWLM on 08-18-2007 at 01:53 AM
RE: Windows Live Mail opening in Firefox? - by whizpopthat on 08-16-2007 at 08:16 AM
RE: Windows Live Mail opening in Firefox? - by whizpopthat on 08-18-2007 at 09:03 AM
RE: Windows Live Mail opening in Firefox? - by Jesus on 08-18-2007 at 03:01 PM
RE: RE: Windows Live Mail opening in Firefox? - by FFinWLM on 08-18-2007 at 08:44 PM
RE: Windows Live Mail opening in Firefox? - by FFinWLM on 08-18-2007 at 10:23 PM
RE: Windows Live Mail opening in Firefox? - by whizpopthat on 08-26-2007 at 07:17 AM
RE: RE: Windows Live Mail opening in Firefox? - by FFinWLM on 08-28-2007 at 05:03 PM
RE: Windows Live Mail opening in Firefox? - by whizpopthat on 08-28-2007 at 08:35 PM
RE: Windows Live Mail opening in Firefox? - by Spunky on 08-28-2007 at 08:51 PM
RE: Windows Live Mail opening in Firefox? - by whizpopthat on 08-28-2007 at 10:23 PM
RE: Windows Live Mail opening in Firefox? - by Jesus on 08-29-2007 at 10:03 PM
RE: RE: Windows Live Mail opening in Firefox? - by FFinWLM on 08-30-2007 at 04:50 PM
RE: Windows Live Mail opening in Firefox? - by roflmao456 on 08-30-2007 at 06:59 PM


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