How do I stop Outlook from stealing mailto protocol from Gmail?

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In Chrome, when I click on a mailto: link, I'd like to be taken to my Gmail's Compose window. So I downloaded ChromeMailer and it works relatively well. However, after using Outlook 2010, the default for the mailto reverts to Outlook.

I went into Outlook's Options, clicked Default Programs... and was greeted with this:

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As you can see, the checkbox is grayed out and I can't do anything to changed it. Clicking Select All checkbox does nothing either.

How do I stop Outlook from stealing the mailto protocol handler?

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