How do I make my Outlook for Mac default? For example whenever I click on a mailto link in an email or website it should be open my Outlook for Mac client. Any suggestion will be highly appreciated. Set the default operating system In Windows on your Mac, click in the right side of the taskbar, click the Boot Camp icon, then choose Boot Camp Control Panel. If a User Account Control dialog appears, click Yes. Select the startup disk that has the default operating system you want to use.
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The default mail program is the software that is registered with your operating system as the software that is to handle mailto URL's. When another application wants to send an email, it looks up the default and passes the email to the default mail program.
Use the following steps to change the default mail program in Mac OS X:
Open the Mail application from the Applications folder.
Click on the Mail menu and select Preferences...
Click the General button. If you don't see the General button, click on the small oval in the upper right corner to reveal it.
Select a new default mail program from the Default Email Reader menu (e.g. Thunderbird, Entourage).
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How to change your default web browser
- Make sure that the other web browser is installed.
- Choose Apple menu > System Preferences, then click General.
- Choose a web browser from the ”Default web browser” menu.
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- Make sure that the other email app is installed. Although you might be able to use a web browser for email (webmail), a web browser isn't an email app.
- Open the Mail app.
- Choose Mail > Preferences, then click General.
- Choose an email app from the ”Default email reader” menu.
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