In vista it is possible to accidentally set the default e-mail client to one you don't want. For instance I installed outlook 2007 along with the package for Microsoft Office 2007 and decided I did not like outlook. I whent to remove outlook, and the email link on my start menu no longer pointed to windows mail. I did not realize this at the time, I was moving quickly. I pressed enter and nothing happened. I pressed enter again. Clicking yes in a dialog asking me whether I would like to remove the currently invalid link. The link was gone. Right clicking on the blue button at the bottom left corner of the screen

, which normally brings up the start menu, brings up a context menu. On this context menu is the option "properties" with a tab,"start menue"(which by the way cannot be said and speech recognition because saying start menue brings up the start menue). In this propertys dialog there are two buttons named customize.



I pressed to the top one.
And was granted a dialog with two check boxes at the bottom.

I checked the e-mail link.
NOTE: you may want to unchecked the Internet link press OK press customize again and recheck the Internet link. That way the Internet link will be on top on your start menu so you can press window key down arrow enter. To start your web browser.

This still did not fix a problem completely. I had to go to default programs (a button on the start menu) press set default programs for this computer. Select windows mail, and press OK first.