I had to do the same thing. Oddly enough, there's a checkbox in the Mail & Newsgroup preferences for setting Mozilla to be the default. Unchecking this (or simply leaving it unchecked during setup) has no effect. My guess is that this is a bug.
-david "uws" <nuws@xs4all.[s-p-a-m-t-r-a-p]nl> wrote in message 3c642ad4$0$225$[EMAIL PROTECTED]">news:3c642ad4$0$225$[EMAIL PROTECTED]... | Currently, I'm only using Mozilla for reading and posting to usenet. | However: everytime I start Mozilla mail'n'news, the default mail | handler will be cleared. That is: | | HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Clients\Mail\@ will be set to en empty | string, so I cannot use my keyboards MAIL button anymore, and my mail | client keeps notifying me it isn't set up as the default mail client. | | To avoid this problem I have secured this registry key, so it cannot be | modified by Mozilla, but now Mozilla comes up with an error message | everytime I start mail'n'news: 'cannot edit registry' or something similar. | | I haven't found a 'don't alter current default mail handler settings' | checkbox... :( | | Anyone an idea? I'm using Mozilla 0.98 on a Win2K SP2 workstation. | | TIA | -- | [uws] (o__ (o< nuws (at) xs4all (dot) nl | (o< (�_ //\' //\ [ http://www.uwsworld.com ] | (/)_ (/)_ V_/_ V_/_ 'all your base are belong to uws' |
