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re: Right click to send email. How to set up. Thunderbird Tuesday, June 23, 2009 at 6:21 pm Posted by Ms. Eagle (33507 messages posted) Off topic, check MozillaZine's T'bird FAQ or support forum. Blocking Unwanted Parasites with a Hosts File [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Right click to send email. How to set up. Thunderbird Thursday, June 25, 2009 at 11:56 am Posted by Paul Kruger (21 messages posted) I thought I posted this in the windows 2000 forum? I am using windows 2000. I am also monitoring the Mozilla forum but no one there has a clue about Win2k and adding to the context menu. They only seem to want to respond re. XP and Vista. None of the "solutions" offered work so I am seeking help from people who know Windows 2000 specifically. If there is another forum here that this belongs to please suggest. Thanks. [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Right click to send email. How to set up. Thunderbird Thursday, June 25, 2009 at 1:44 pm Posted by Ms. Eagle (33507 messages posted) This isn't a Windows issue, is the point. Not sure what you mean by monitoring the Mozilla forum. It shouldn't matter which OS you're running. They have a forum for T'bird, so naturally.. that'd be the appropriate place to post! They have quite a useful search database, as well. Well first off, you need to make sure the program of your choice, T'bird, is set as default mail client. I presume you have. Also, check in Folder Options under file types and make sure the mail and mailto entries are set to T'bird. Blocking Unwanted Parasites with a Hosts File [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Right click to send email. How to set up. Thunderbird Friday, June 26, 2009 at 7:58 am Posted by Paul Kruger (21 messages posted) Point is, regardless of if it is Thunderbird or some other program that removed an item from the context menu, I am not asking for help to fix Thunderbird, it works fine. I am asking for help to fix a right context menu issue in Windows 2000. The people at Mozilla are the "experts" with Tbird but I thought this was where to get help with a Windows2000 issue, ie, how to trouble shoot a missing right click item, regardless of what program it relates to? If I am wrong I apologize but I thought this was for people seeking help specific to Windows 2000 problems? Perhaps my error was in even mentioning that it was a problem caused by my email but that the actual problem is a context menu issue, not an email program problem. [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Right click to send email. How to set up. Thunderbird Friday, June 26, 2009 at 4:35 pm Posted by Ms. Eagle (33507 messages posted) Judging by your other thread, you're right. My mistake. I thought T'bird wasn't associated correctly with your email settings. I suspect it's may be a malware infection you're dealing with here. Had you considered that? I'd go through these steps, but if you do indeed have an infection/s, you'll need to register and post on a malware support forum for further help. It will not, as I'm sure you know, work to do a repair install of 2K if your system's infected. First, check Add/Remove for anything suspect you don't recognize as having installed yourself. Uninstall it/them if possible.. unless you're unsure.Clear out all temp folders, etc. for all users with..CCleaner Before running the scan, click Options and specify any Cookies you don't want removed. Uncheck the box that says, "don't remove temp files less than 48 hrs. old". Download, install and update MalwareBytes' anti-malware... run a scan.. Malwarebytes' Anti-Malware If you still have issues, register and post on one of the following malware removal forums. Before posting, follow their preliminary cleaning steps. *Post on only ONE forum. MalwareBytes' malware removal forum GeeksToGo forum Blocking Unwanted Parasites with a Hosts File [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Right click to send email. How to set up. Thunderbird Saturday, June 27, 2009 at 2:59 pm Posted by Paul Kruger (21 messages posted) I use CCleaner pretty frequently. I am downloading the malware utility you suggested and will follow up after scanning. Thanks [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Right click to send email. How to set up. Thunderbird Sunday, June 28, 2009 at 6:03 pm Posted by jd (2 messages posted) My wife and I are having the same issue globally in winXP. I appears to be an issue with a recent TB upgrade that was implemented recently. On Saturday, June 27, 2009 at 2:59 pm, Paul Kruger wrote: >I use CCleaner pretty frequently. I am downloading the malware utility you suggested >and will follow up after scanning. > >Thanks [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Right click to send email. How to set up. Thunderbird Monday, June 29, 2009 at 7:25 am Posted by Paul Kruger (21 messages posted) It may have been caused by TBird but I think what was broken will need to be fixed in the settings. The few fixes suggested did not work as they all assume a default installation location etc. For me even those did not function. I am hoping for solution that is generic enough to be applied for any email client or other program that one might want in the sendto menu. On Sunday, June 28, 2009 at 6:03 pm, jd wrote: >My wife and I are having the same issue globally in winXP. I appears to be an issue >with a recent TB upgrade that was implemented recently. > > > [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Right click to send email. How to set up. Thunderbird Monday, June 29, 2009 at 9:49 am Posted by jd (2 messages posted) Ok, this was a weird fix for me. I have to mention that prior to resolving this I did make a registry change where I added a path to the thunder mapi32.dll but I can't recall off hand what key it was. I am not sure this had anything to do with the fix. I installed Thunderbird 3 Beta and chose to make it my default mail client, closed tb3 and opened tb2 and chose to make tb2 my default client and viola... works on both of our laptops. [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Right click to send email. How to set up. Thunderbird Monday, June 29, 2009 at 10:12 am Posted by Paul Kruger (21 messages posted) My icon is gone...not just not working. Win2K did you have a missing icon or just one that did not work? [Reply or follow-up to this message] NEW- Right click to send email. How to set up. Thunderbird Tuesday, June 30, 2009 at 8:54 am Posted by Paul Kruger (21 messages posted) I tried an experiment and am now more confused than before. I have a second Win2k Machine accessible via KVM switch on the network. Mostly for the kids to use. I installed Tbird client and the sendto email icon works as is should. I thought I might copy this to the machine with the problems. (a) it did not work. (b) when I tried to view it on the working machine the file is zero bytes...it has nothing in it yet it works. (c) On the working machine it says "Send to Mail recipient" and has that nice little yellow envelope. When I copy it to the non-working machine it is renamed and says it is "MailRecipient.MAPIMail" and has no icon other than the generic Tbunderbird email icon. The only thing I can think is that the icon is not supposed to contain anything, but that it simply refers to a key in the registry that has the working code. Does anyone know where to find this code and where is the actual Icon etc that appears when it works properly? Paul [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: NEW- Right click to send email. How to set up. Thunderbird Tuesday, June 30, 2009 at 11:33 am Posted by Paul Kruger (21 messages posted) Update...still no luck. I tried to find all keys on working machine that referenced the path to Tbird. I copied all to a text file and then compared to registry on non-working machine. Only one was different. I changed to match but nothing else changed. This is just FYI to keep updated on what I have tried and the results...if any. [Reply or follow-up to this message] Tip: Use one of the [Reply or follow-up to this message] links above to add a message to this thread Search this forum Start a new thread on a different subject Report abuse of the forum Return to the Windows 2000 Discussion Forum