How to make Eudora 7 my default email app

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I change the settings in the registry as instructed by several in the community. 

Made sure the Eudora program files are in the correct place.

The windows 10 build is 1803 (17134.885)

Nothing changed.  When I go to setup default apps, Eudora does not show as a choice.

When I click on an email link in a web page in Chrome or any other browser it opens up a MS window asking me to use one of the following apps but Eudora is not a choice.

You've given yourself two problems, unfortunately:

1- you've manually edited the Windows registry (not 'register') which is a sure way to cause problems for your computer; and

2- you're using an email client that was discontinued in 2007, and whose code is currently owned by the Computer History Museum. It has no support on Windows 10.

I'll make two recommendations:

If you have a restore point that was created shortly before you started to edit the registry, you should restore that restore point. That will hopefully undo the changes you made.

You should abandon Eudora in favor of a modern email client that is supported on Windows 10. We will gladly help you do that.

Actually, email clients (that you install on your computer) are becoming increasingly less popular as more people and organizations switch to webmail, like Outlook.com and GMail, which are free and easy to sync among all your devices.

This advice is probably not what you wanted to hear, but I would rather tell you the truth rather than help you dig yourself in deeper.

You've given yourself two problems, unfortunately:

1- you've manually edited the Windows registry (not 'register') which is a sure way to cause problems for your computer; and

2- you're using an email client that was discontinued in 2007, and whose code is currently owned by the Computer History Museum. It has no support on Windows 10.

I'll make two recommendations:

If you have a restore point that was created shortly before you started to edit the registry, you should restore that restore point. That will hopefully undo the changes you made.

You should abandon Eudora in favor of a modern email client that is supported on Windows 10. We will gladly help you do that.

Actually, email clients (that you install on your computer) are becoming increasingly less popular as more people and organizations switch to webmail, like Outlook.com and GMail, which are free and easy to sync among all your devices.

This advice is probably not what you wanted to hear, but I would rather tell you the truth rather than help you dig yourself in deeper.

The registry changes did not change anything and I have worked in the registry before and pretty much know what I am doing.  The problem is that everything was fine until the latest update to the windows 10 code.  I guess I could switch to a web based email client but I have used Eudora since it came into being.  I like the way it works and the interface.  I have used outlook before and hate it.  Used have an exchange server.  I know a lot of people use gmail.  I just find not being able to include Eudora as a default program a flaw in an OS.  

I just find not being able to include Eudora as a default program a flaw in an OS.  

You're on the wrong track there, friend. Microsoft doesn't decide to exclude old software. The developer makes the decision to exclude Windows 10.

You can be sure that if it were up to Microsoft, every program that ever existed would work great on Windows 10. But it's not up to Microsoft, because Microsoft doesn't have the proprietary knowledge or the legal authority to change somebody else's software to make it work with Windows 10.

After Eudora was discontinued, its developers at the time made it open source. For a few years, a band of volunteers were maintaining the code, but eventually they gave up. There's only so much that you can do to old software code to keep it working with new technology.

And if you think that Microsoft should hold back Windows' development so that it can continue to work with ancient software that few people use ... well, let's say that a whole lot of people in Mountain View and Cupertino wish Microsoft would do that.  😉