GMail Icon Setup

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Screenshot of Windows XP with Gmail as Default Email Program

Here is a little installer I put together with NSIS. It simply adds the registration keys needed to set GMail as the default email application in windows. And places the GMail icon on your system.

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It does not grab the mailto links. For that I suggest you use Google's GMail Notifier.

How does it work? What does it do? Well it's pretty simple. It simply adds the following keys to the registry.

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Clients\Mail\Google GMail]



@="Google GMail"







[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Clients\Mail\Google GMail\DefaultIcon]



@="C:\Program Files\GMail Icon\GMail.ico"







[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Clients\Mail\Google GMail\shell]







[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Clients\Mail\Google GMail\shell\open]







[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Clients\Mail\Google GMail\shell\open\command]



@="rundll32.exe url.dll,FileProtocolHandler http://www.gmail.com"







[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Clients\mail]



@="Google GMail"

It also adds the GMail Icon to the default install folder on your computer.

I have also tested the uninstaller it completely removed the program and sets the default email to nothing... so you can re-choose the default email client you want to use.

Screenshot of Windows Vista with Gmail as Default Email Program

It also works in Vista!!