Outlook2000 following secure browser removal

[system]

“Accidentally” installed Avast secure browser. Don’t want it, so uninstalled. But now links in emails in Outlook no longer fire up Chrome :-[

How do I restore Outlook to former click-through functionality? [Windows XP]

[DavidR]

Prior to uninstalling the Avast secure browser (ASB), if you clicked a link in an email it opened the ASB ?

If so, surely you should be able to set Chrome as yore default browser again ?
Then any internet link should open the default browser to view the page.

[system]

Thanks. Yes - prior to removal, links opened in ASB. But where do I set my default browser back to Chrome pls?

[bob3160]

@c.purchase post:3

Thanks. Yes - prior to removal, links opened in ASB. But where do I set my default browser back to Chrome pls?

Start by doing a search for Default email app then follow the screenshots.

https://screencast-o-matic.com/screenshots/u/Lh/1534343311079-36738.png

https://screencast-o-matic.com/screenshots/u/Lh/1534343236124-14179.png

https://screencast-o-matic.com/screenshots/u/Lh/1534343377945-32620.png

[DavidR]

@ Bob, it isn’t so much choosing the default email app, but choosing what is the default browser, so when clicking a web link, it is opened in your browser of choice.

I don’t use Chrome, but I would have thought it is in the browser settings/options, similar to my firefox settings.

[bob3160]

@DavidR post:5

@ Bob, it isn’t so much choosing the default email app, but choosing what is the default browser, so when clicking a web link, it is opened in your browser of choice.

I don’t use Chrome, but I would have thought it is in the browser settings/options, similar to my firefox settings.

David,
When a link starts with mailto, It will open the default email program regardless of the default browser.
To not have any surprises, it’s advisable to select both your default Browser and your default email program.

[alanb]

When a link starts with Mailto

Just me being a complete and utter pedant here, @Bob, but the link must start “mailto:”

(Works in the address bar, too).

[bob3160]

@alanb post:7

When a link starts with Mailto

Just me being a complete and utter pedant here, @Bob, but the link must start “mailto:”

(Works in the address bar, too).

Hope that makes you happy.

[alanb]

Hope that makes you happy

;D ;D

[DavidR]

@bob3160 post:6

@DavidR post:5

@ Bob, it isn’t so much choosing the default email app, but choosing what is the default browser, so when clicking a web link, it is opened in your browser of choice.

I don’t use Chrome, but I would have thought it is in the browser settings/options, similar to my firefox settings.

David,
When a link starts with mailto, It will open the default email program regardless of the default browser.
To not have any surprises, it’s advisable to select both your default Browser and your default email program.

I’m reading exactly what the OP posted in relation to links “But now links in emails in Outlook no longer fire up Chrome.” The highlighting is mine, so if they are to fire up Chrome, then they would be web links not mailto links.

He isn’t asking how to fire up his email client Outlook, he is already in Outlook and wants web links he clicks in emails to open Chrome.

[bob3160]

For the browser, change the search term to Browser and follow the instructions.

[system]

…thanks to some of the responses above, I get to answer my own Q…

Windows XP, Chrome. The option to make Chrome the default browser is within Chrome’s settings (not XP’s)

Thanks for the help

[DavidR]

Which is what I said in Reply #4