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Windows live mail not opening when clicking on mailto links

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Hello. I have always been able to have my WinLiveMail open whenever I clicked a mailto link on a website. Recently that function stopped working. It still works on another laptop, but not mine, so I'm guessing some setting changed, but for the life of me I have no idea what it might be. Running Win7 Pro 64 and the latest version of FF. The general>applications>mailto is set to Windows Live Mail as it always has. I changed it to GMail and it works. I changed it to FireFox and it opens the window offering choices, but it won't open WLM. PopUps is unchecked but I can't figure why it's not working. It used to. Worked for years, regardless of the version of FF running. All the add-ons and extensions have been disabled and FF has been run in Safe Mode and it still will not open. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated. Nothing I find when I 'Google' the issue is helpful, and most of the posts are years old. I downgraded FF to an earlier version and all that did was cause my profile to disappear and really mess up my saved configuration. Fortunately I backed up the old profile and just renamed it to the new one created by the re install of the latest version and all my stuff came back. Just a side note as to what happens when I do click the mailto link, regadless of the site. The top menu banner flashes as I click it and that's all. Not other movement or screen changes whatsoever. Thanks in advance for any suggestions.

Hello. I have always been able to have my WinLiveMail open whenever I clicked a mailto link on a website. Recently that function stopped working. It still works on another laptop, but not mine, so I'm guessing some setting changed, but for the life of me I have no idea what it might be. Running Win7 Pro 64 and the latest version of FF. The general>applications>mailto is set to Windows Live Mail as it always has. I changed it to GMail and it works. I changed it to FireFox and it opens the window offering choices, but it won't open WLM. PopUps is unchecked but I can't figure why it's not working. It used to. Worked for years, regardless of the version of FF running. All the add-ons and extensions have been disabled and FF has been run in Safe Mode and it still will not open. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated. Nothing I find when I 'Google' the issue is helpful, and most of the posts are years old. I downgraded FF to an earlier version and all that did was cause my profile to disappear and really mess up my saved configuration. Fortunately I backed up the old profile and just renamed it to the new one created by the re install of the latest version and all my stuff came back. Just a side note as to what happens when I do click the mailto link, regadless of the site. The top menu banner flashes as I click it and that's all. Not other movement or screen changes whatsoever. Thanks in advance for any suggestions.