If you’re a Windows 10 user, you probably have at least one email app installed. But what if you want to set a different email app as your default? There are a few ways to do this, but the easiest way is to open the Settings app and select “Evernote.” Then, under " Email," select “Default Email App.” Now that you’ve set your default email app, you can change it any time you want. Just make sure that your new email app is up and running before you try to send any emails!
If you click an email link in Windows 11 and the wrong email client pops up, you can easily change the default email app. All it takes is a quick trip to Windows Settings. Here’s how to do it.
First, open the Settings app by pressing Windows+i on your keyboard. Or you can right-click the Start button in your taskbar and select “Settings.”
When Settings opens, click “Apps” in the sidebar, and then select “Default Apps.”
In Default Apps, click the search bar and type in the name of the email app you’d like to use as your default. When it appears, click its icon in the list below. (Or you can browse the list of apps and find it.)
On the email app’s “Default Apps” settings page, click the button below “MAILTO.” This configures how Windows will open “mailto:” links that are common in web pages.
In the “How do you want to open this” window that pops up, select the email app you want to use as default for “mailto:” links, then click “OK.”
If you want to configure the same email client to open EML files (which are email files saved as text files to your computer), you can also click the “.EML” link on the Default Apps page and choose the email app from the list. When you’re done, close Settings. Happy emailing!
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