Do you think your method will work also on XP? I know my Vista likes to switch up drive letters, so you can make 26 of them with different drive assignments if you want.īTW, this was using TB 1.5.0.14 and TBP 1.5.0.14, I would think that ver. For example I have C:\ TBP and E:\ TBP as my 2 profiles.
INSTALLING DEFAULT MAIL CLIENT WINDOWS 7 PORTABLE
If you are using Portable TB off of other drives besides (or instead) of the C: Drive, you can just make other profiles and put the drive letter on them. If you are only using one profile, you can check the "Don't ask at statup" box. will still be stored in the fully functional Portable TB folder, so you can back it up and move it and run it wherever you like. Select "Create Profile", click "Next", click "Choose Folder", point to your "Profile" folder wherever your Portable TB is stored and then TB will use your Portable Profile, but be happy that it is running off the installed version. Type in into the command line (start, run) "thunderbird.exe -ProfileManager" (no quotes). Once installed, do not run it an start to set it up.
INSTALLING DEFAULT MAIL CLIENT WINDOWS 7 INSTALL
Install whatever non portable version of TB that matches your portable version on your Vista computer. Leave feedback for other users if this works for you too. This fixes Files\\ThunderbirdPortable\\ThunderbirdPortable.exe /MAPIStartUp"
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Clients\Mail\Mozilla Files\\ThunderbirdPortable\\ThunderbirdPortable.exe\" Files\\ThunderbirdPortable\\ThunderbirdPortable.exe\" Thunderbird" [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Clients\Mail\Mozilla &Options"
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Clients\Mail\Mozilla Files\\ThunderbirdPortable\\ThunderbirdPortable.exe\" -mail"
MINE is E:\\Program Files\\ThunderbirdPortable\\ThunderbirdPortable.exe Edit YOUR ThunderbirdPortable.exe path below. Make your TB Portable the default mail client: Tools > Options. Changes to make TB Portable the default e-mail client reg file, then edit the path to match your TBP installation. I have TBPortable installed on my hard drive and use it as my primary mail client.Ĭopy and paste the code below into a. Here are the registry entries which worked flawlessly for me.