Windows Live Mail can not copy hyperlinks from one e-mail to another.

Anonymous
2013-11-20T10:57:38+00:00

Hey all.

Long story short, I am writing this for my mother who current runs a dog boarding business as well as various other e-mail accounts, ranging from fan clubs to personal ones. She has a draft e-mail saved which contains information and links she would COPY and PASTE into e-mails prior to sending them. Essentially, these are signatures. No matter which signature she copies and pastes, each one has at least one weblink.

As of yesterday, when copying and pasting that information, the link does not copy with the text. Instead of pasting the text as a hyperlink, like she has been able to, it simply shows the text without any clickable option.

I have double checked the options, Read all messages in plain text is unticked, as well as the Mail Sending Format and News Sending Formation both being set to HTML.

Can anyone help please?

Thank you.

Windows for home | Other | Email and communications

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  1. Anonymous
    2014-06-03T17:07:26+00:00

    If this is a solution to the problem, how do I implement it?

    As Hoge says, copy the lines from Windows Registry ... to ... =dword:00002AF9into Notepad, then Save As > All files on the desktop with file name hoge.reg. Then double-click on the file to Merge these entries into the registry. Reboot the computer (to make sure that the registry entries stick), then launch Windows Live Mail and test. I'm not on a computer with WLMail at present, so I can't test for myself. The solution does look likely to work, though.

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  2. Anonymous
    2014-06-04T03:55:35+00:00

    The default deocument mode of WLM is ie7. It causes this problem.

    The registry file makes it to be ie11.

    ie11.eml

    MIME-Version: 1.0

    Content-Type: multipart/alternative;

     boundary="----=_NextPart_000_052F_01CF79BB.B0ED4A20"

    X-Priority: 3

    X-MSMail-Priority: Normal

    Importance: Normal

    X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V15.4.3555.308

    X-Unsent: 3

    This is a multi-part message in MIME format.

    ------=_NextPart_000_052F_01CF79BB.B0ED4A20

    Content-Type: text/plain;

     charset="iso-8859-1"

    Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit

    ------=_NextPart_000_052F_01CF79BB.B0ED4A20

    Content-Type: text/html;

     charset="iso-8859-1"

    Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit

    <HTML><HEAD>

    <meta http-equiv="X-UA-Compatible" content="IE=11" >

    </HEAD><BODY>

    <a href="http://www.microsoft.com">aaa</a>

    </BODY></HTML>

    ------=_NextPart_000_052F_01CF79BB.B0ED4A20--

    ie7.eml

    MIME-Version: 1.0

    Content-Type: multipart/alternative;

     boundary="----=_NextPart_000_052F_01CF79BB.B0ED4A20"

    X-Priority: 3

    X-MSMail-Priority: Normal

    Importance: Normal

    X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V15.4.3555.308

    X-Unsent: 3

    This is a multi-part message in MIME format.

    ------=_NextPart_000_052F_01CF79BB.B0ED4A20

    Content-Type: text/plain;

     charset="iso-8859-1"

    Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit

    ------=_NextPart_000_052F_01CF79BB.B0ED4A20

    Content-Type: text/html;

     charset="iso-8859-1"

    Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit

    <HTML><HEAD>

    <meta http-equiv="X-UA-Compatible" content="IE=7" >

    </HEAD><BODY>

    <a href="http://www.microsoft.com">aaa</a>

    </BODY></HTML>

    ------=_NextPart_000_052F_01CF79BB.B0ED4A20--

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  3. Anonymous
    2014-06-04T09:03:57+00:00

    As someone with little knowledge of changing registry settings can we get clarification that this is a definite solution and instructions in layman's terms how to implement it.

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  4. Anonymous
    2014-06-04T12:09:03+00:00

    I have to say that as a non-technical user, the thought of fiddling with Registry entries scares the **** out of me. Early versions of Livemail were beset with Registry problems and some third party registry cleaners have screwed things up in the past.

    If this is a simple fix that works, and will work permanently, why doesn't Microsoft issue a patch with next s/w update?

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  5. Anonymous
    2014-06-04T12:45:55+00:00

    Because MS does not know their software. Especially WLM team does not know IE at all, though WLM uses IE internally. Maybe they do not know that WLM uses IE internally. Maybe they do not know "document mode", They do not know the default document mode of WLM. They do not know how to know the  document mode of WLM. It is difficult for MS to find out the cause and to fix the problem.

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