Outlook express won’t launch when you click an e-mail link.

         We use e-mail links on this web-site to allow you to vote on various issues. In these cases when you click the e-mail link your e-mail programme should open an e-mail with the subject heading completed and perhaps some text in the e-mail body. To register a vote all you need do is to is to click send, although your vote will have greater substance if you add your name and address to the body of the e-mail first.

          Regardless of which e-mail programme you use clicking the following link should start it with an empty e-mail open, addressed to “Like_Wow_my_e-mailer_works”:

Test e-mail Link

If Outlook Express is your e-mail programme and clicking the above link does not start outlook express, the following may help:

         Manually start outlook express, click ‘tools’ on menu bar, then click ‘options’

This menu should show:

       Click make default (where cursor is shown)

       Click apply if the ‘apply’ text highlights

       Click OK

       Ignore the other settings shown in this picture they may not suit your purposes.

       Now exit outlook express and try the test link again.