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
    2014-06-04T18:55:52+00:00

    Firedog, I know you have been on this case for some time and I respect your expertise.  I have to say I am very nervous about messing with Registry entries.  I'm going to sleep on it and decide whether to try it in the morning....

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  2. Anonymous
    2014-06-04T19:33:01+00:00

    Hi Everyone,

    I'm sorry for the delay and inconvenience this issue caused you. I've escalated the issue to our Engineers for investigation.

    @Firedog, Ron and Tom,

    Thank you for helping out.

    Regards,

    Ron

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  3. Anonymous
    2014-06-04T20:59:48+00:00

    As the original poster of this question, it was to ask why links pasted into emails do not become live links.  This is Windows Live Mail operating in Win 7 64bit.  It used to work fine, and then suddenly it quit.  I did find if you hit a carriage return after pasting it, it will make a live link, but that doesn't work well if in the body of a message.  Works fine in Vista.

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  4. Anonymous
    2014-06-04T22:00:38+00:00

    As the original poster of this question,

    Only if your name is Luke Blackwell and you have a mother who runs a dog boarding house ...

    it was to ask why links pasted into emails do not become live links.

    No, it concerns the problem that arose with the introduction of Internet Explorer 11 that makes it impossible to paste text containing an embedded hyperlink into a Windows Live Mail message and have the link remain live.

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  5. Anonymous
    2014-06-05T03:32:34+00:00

    However, the .reg file I'd created didn't do the job - I had to do it manually.

    I do not know why. 32bit related?

    For windows 32bit and 64bit

    Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

    [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Main\FeatureControl\FEATURE_BROWSER_EMULATION]

    "wlmail.exe"=dword:00002AF9

    The following HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE versions apply to all users of pc. 

    For windows 64bit

    Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

    [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Main\FeatureControl\FEATURE_BROWSER_EMULATION]

    "wlmail.exe"=dword:00002AF9

    [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Wow6432Node\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Main\FeatureControl\FEATURE_BROWSER_EMULATION]

    "wlmail.exe"=dword:00002AF9

    (redundant)

    For windows 32bit

    Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

    [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Main\FeatureControl\FEATURE_BROWSER_EMULATION]

    "wlmail.exe"=dword:00002AF9

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