How to Make Yahoo the default e-mail in Internet Explorer

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I've removed all the incorrect stuff and provided an answer thanks to the dilligence of a reader. Thanks, Judy

Why make Yahoo your default?

Background: If you are like me and use Yahoo as your primary way to send and receive e-mail, you have a problem.
As you surf the web and find a web page that has an e-mail link and you want to send an e-mail using that link.
If you click it, Outlook or Outlook Express opens. You can tell that it is an e-mail link by looking at the status bar
on the bottom (provided you have it turned on- View/Status bar). It will show "mailto" in your IE status bar.
Clicking the link opens whatever program is set as the default in IE.
You can see the default that is currently set by opening Internet Options.
You can get there from Control Panel or by opening IE & using the Tools menu.
Once there, click the Programs tab & the default e-mail will probably be Outlook Express or maybe Outlook.

The info from Judy's e-mail:

After a whole bunch of messing around I found your site, but couldn't get your suggestions to work. Then I unearthed this: by Yahoo! Toolbar employee Jon | 2 months ago

Great suggestion (to put Yahoo Mail as default on the Toolbar). We don't currently do this for Toolbar, since not all Toolbar users use Yahoo Mail. One option may be to include it for users who install Toolbar from a promotion within Yahoo Mail. In the meantime, if you install Yahoo Messenger from messenger.yahoo.com it includes a package called "Yahoo Browser Services" which will tell your Windows OS to open all mailto: links in Yahoo Mail, so if you click an email address while you're surfing the web, it will open the new message window in Yahoo Mail.

So: I downloaded Yahoo Messenger and selected CUSTOM INSTALL; said NO to shortcuts, anti-spy, and yahoo toolbar but YES to browser services. After I installed it I went to Tools/Internet Options/Programs: Yahoo Mail was on the drop-down list and I selected it. This was successful.

Once you have completed this simple procedure, you will have Yahoo as your default. FINALLY