192250 - trying to make mozilla the default mailer show error dialog

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 141965

(SeaMonkey :: UI Design, defect)

Description

[Enrico Horn]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; WinNT4.0; en-US; rv:1.3a) Gecko/20021212
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; WinNT4.0; en-US; rv:1.3a) Gecko/20021212

When trying to make mozilla the default mailer for my system
(either when being asked by mozilla and answering yes or checking the checkbox
in the preferences for mail/news and pressing the ok button)
an error dialog pops up and says:
mozilla mail could not be set as the default mail application because a registry
key could not be updated.verify with your system administrator that you have
write access to your system registry, and then try again.

well i checked back with my system admin(that would be me thank you very much)
and i have write access. unfortunately it doesnt tell which key it wants to
update. any ideas?

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.try to make mozilla the default mailer
2.
3.

Actual Results:  
error message read description

Expected Results:  
make it the default mailer

Comment 1

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

Nothing to do with preferences... this is Windows Integration stuff.

Comment 2

[R.K.Aa.]

also reported in other bugs, 144456, 167715,  dup'ed against bug 141965

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 141965 ***