332214 - failed to change default application (mail) in general preferences

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 332216

(Thunderbird :: Preferences, defect)

Description

[Mathias R. Huber]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.0.1) Gecko/20060111 Firefox/1.5.0.1
Build Identifier: Mozilla Thunderbird version 1.5 (20051201) (en-US)

failed to change default application (mail) in general preferences


Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
details of BUG:

a) startup of thunderbird:
   dialog: yes/no
   "Do you want to use Mozilla Thunderbird as the default mail application?"
   --> click "yes"

   on next startup of thunderbird same question occures...


b) thunderbird menu :
in menu:
Tools --> Options
  Tab: General

    Default Settings:
      Make Thunderbird the default application for:
-->     Opt: Mail
        Opt: News
        Opt: RSS Feeds

    select Opt: Mail

    will not save the settings!

NOTE:
for a) and b)
Windows XP Professional 
  "system preferences"
     "internetoptions"
        Tab: programs
          e-mail:
  --> program is correctly set to "Mozilla Thunderbird"


simple bug fix for me:
1. add administrative group temporarly to the user member groups
2. login as user
3. change settings
   --> make thunderbird as default mail application from a) or b)
4. logout as user
5. remove administrative group from user member groups
6. login as user
   --> problem is solved on startup of mozilla thunderbird

(additional steps to reproduce:)
7. close mozilla thunderbird
8. make another mail application to defaut
9. start mozzilla thunderbird
    --> change of default mail application failed!!
    --> to fix it i have to use step 1. to 6.


NOTE:
this does not appear on first run on thunderbird!

Actual Results:  
change default application (mail) did not succed

Expected Results:  
change default application (mail) should succed for all windows users

detailed OPERATING SYSTEM description:

  OS: Windows XP Professional (german)
  User: Mainuser (in german XP it is called "Hauptbenutzer")
  Userrights: FULL access to Thunderbird user folder

Comment 1

[Mathias R. Huber]

CORRECTION:

detailed OPERATING SYSTEM description:

  Usergroup: "Mainuser" (in german XP it is called "Hauptbenutzer")

Comment 2

[Elmar Ludwig]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 332216 ***