Taken from PC World Magazine, February 2011 Edition

If you use a web-based e-mail client such as Gmail or Yahoo Mail, you’ve likely encountered this hassle before: You click a ‘mail to’ link on a Web page, and then watch while Windows tries to open Outlook, Windows Live Mail or some other desktop program you don’t use and have not configured.  Error messages (and possibly cursing) ensue.

You could jump through various hoops to configure Windows, your browser, or both to direct such e-mail links to the proper destination (to Gmail say), but why bother?  I’ve found a small, simply utility – GmailDefaultMaker (find. pcworld.com/71071) – that will do the hoop-jumping on your behalf.

Just run the free program and choose the default e-mail service you want: Gmail, Hotmail or Yahoo. (Yes, the program needs a name change.) Then go about your business.  It’s that easy.

Now, whenever you click a ‘mail to’ link, you’ll land in the proper Web client, not in an unwated desktop program.