Click an Email Address and Have it Open Outlook
If you're like me and you're browser of choice is Google Chrome, then upon installation you may have noticed that Chrome has commandeered some of your Windows' processes that you'd prefer were back to the way they were in the pre-Chrome days.
If you inadvertently accepted the offer to have Gmail set as your default mail handler, you'll now notice that whenever you click on email links (even if you click them within Outlook!) that your Gmail launches.
While I love Chrome and Gmail and many of the fun toys that Google has to offer, my primary email is my work email, and I want Outlook and my work email to be the default.
After (too) much research, I've learned the way to change these settings back to the way you/I/we want them.
First - in Chrome:
Click the "three bars" icon in the top right.
Choose Settings
Click Show Advanced Settings
Click Content Settings
Go to Handlers.
Click Manage Handlers.
Remove Gmail from the Handlers section for Mailto: links.
Second - in Windows:
Go to your Default Programs (in the start menu).
Set the Mailto: protocol back to the email client of your choice.
Presto, change-o!