Tech-Tips: Making Gmail your default mail application

You can designate Gmail as your default mailto handler, I've tested this at home & school, it seems to be the solution.  

You can designate Gmail as your default mailto: handler. This means that when you click on any hyper-linked email address, a Gmail compose window will open so you can send a message to that address from Gmail.  To set this up, go to this link http://support.google.com/mail/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=10966 and follow the steps provided OR open and print this PDF for easy step by step directions.

Click on this image to open the PDF document.

Link to Download Gmail Notifier file:
http://toolbar.google.com/gmail-helper/notifier_windows.html