Win 8 - IE 11 - File / send to greyed out

But since I am here installing my brand new computer and setting it up the way I want, I just went with what was in front of me. So far, things seem to be working, just not this.

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With Firefox you can click File -> Email link... and it'll do what you want. Most folks here use Firefox and/or Chrome (as Bob suggested) and use IE only when it can't be avoided. I like both although I didn't see the feature you're looking for in Chrome.

A Google search finally gave an answer. Go to Control panel / default program / set program access and computer defaults / custom / select your email program, in my case windows live mail, and put a check mark in it. That's it. It works now.

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Eddie

From time to time I like to send a link to a website to family and friends, so I would click on the IE 11 browser "file" and then select sent to. And I can, of course, copy the "link" and then open my default email program and paste the link in the body, but that's just more work. And I didn't have to do that before.

Did I just read that Microsoft is dropping support for Windows 8.1 next month? LOL And I just bought this computer.

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next month.

http://support.microsoft.com/lifecycle/search/default.aspx?alpha=Windows+8

Here is how to make a mail client the default

http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-vista/change-the-default-e-mail-program

my email client, Yahoo was "not" listed, just mail. I set up "Outlook" and went back to defaults and it wasn't listed either. So then I selected windows live mail from the "store", went back to defaults and it was listed, so I selected it, but there is another step that has to be done in protocol's mail, did that and now browser "mail icon" works. Just not the browser "file/sent to" doesn't work.

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Yes and no. The simple answer is that Microsoft released a rather major new patch to Windows and will be basing all future updates on the assumption that people have said update installed. Another way to look at it is that Windows 8.1 was the equivalent to Windows 8 SP1 and this is Windows 8 SP2. In the past Microsoft has dropped support for the "gold" and older service pack revisions very quickly after the next service pack was released. After XP SP2 came out, Microsoft started basing all of its subsequent patches on that SP2 baseline, just like it did SP1 before it and SP3 after. This is the exact same scenario, but there's a new bit of confusion because Microsoft wanted to get away from the whole service pack method since loads of people won't buy anything until at least SP1 (there are companies with codified policies to that effect).

It's a damned if you do, damned if you don't kind of situation for Microsoft. Move away from the old SP system and you might get people upgrading a bit earlier, but now you have to educate your customers on the new system or it creates confusion exactly like your post. On the other hand, however, there are plenty of people who will latch onto service packs as some kind of righteous vindication about how buggy Microsoft products are. Like the digital version of a televangelist who runs around proclaiming how bad people are and usually get a bug up their rear about one group in particular, of which the televangelist secretly belongs.

Thanks for replying. When I first completed the initial setup I went to windows updates and there were a bunch of updates. Did them, took a while, and went about my business. Thanks to your reply I went back to control panel/updates and there was that monster update. Did that, again took a while. So progress is being made.

Thanks again