Re: desktop shortcuts/Outlook email links, don't work; XP says "Ca

Dear Mike,
I was SOOO hopeful this nifty IE fix you sent, would work. But, it did not.
I still get the error message of Cannot Find www.... when I click a desktop
shortcut, but now, instead of a blank IE page popping up, I get my home page
of Google come up.

After finding the IEFix to not have worked, I redid that scan for XP
(sfc/scannow) and also did a rescan of the IE repair command. With each step
I also rebooted just be sure it all took. But I'm in the same problem I
started out with.


On a side note, when I copy a shortcut url and plug it into my taskbar
google window on the bottom of my desktop (same line as the Start button),
the Google doesn't work now, either. I paste the url into the little window
and prior to the iefix.exe, I could click on the icon and this managed to get
me into IE and the page I was wanting to go to. Now it doesn't work. The url
gets pasted, but the icon to make it go to the webpage, does nothing.

Yikes, what do I do NOW???

"MAP" wrote:

> Ms Max wrote:
> > My system runs XP Professional WITH SP1, but NOT SP2 updates. My
> > browser is IE 6.0.2800.1106.xpsp1.020828.
> >
> > Problem: when I click on a desktop shortcut, Windows gives me an error
> > message that says it Can't Find the url, and then a blank IE window
> > opens with the address box blank, as well.
> >
> > The first remedy I tried was running the command, sfc/scannow, which
> > then asks for my XP Prof install disk and hunts for missing/corrupt
> > files (I got this advice from
> > www.homecomputerrepaironline.com/geektips/index.cfm?id=66&geek_cat=3).
> > This didn't fix the problem.
> >
> > Next I tried a similar fix of IE by running the command: rundll32.exe
> > setupapi,InstallHinfSection DefaultInstall 132 %windir%\Inf\ie.inf (I
> > got this advice from
> > http://www.dougknox.com/xp/tips/xp_ie_reinstall.htm). This also did
> > not repair the problem.
> >
> > Next I did a reinstall of the IE 6.0 SP1 program, hoping this would
> > correct things. This didn't work, either.
> >
> > As a last resort, and I don't know if this is related or not, but in
> > the Start Menu when I click on Help & Support, nothing happens, no
> > window opens and I'm not given that page where I can choose from all
> > sorts of Windows internal help options.
> >
> > My idea was to do a restore back to 3 days prior when links and
> > shortcuts were working fine. I finally went to Start
> > Menu/Programs/Accessories/System Tools to get the Restore function
> > and then did a restore to 3 days back, 1 week back and 2 weeks back.
> > Each time the system took about 20-30 minutes to perform the restore
> > function, and each time it finished by telling me that it had made NO
> > CHANGES to the system. Why is that????
> >
> > In any case, I still have my original problem, the desktop shortcuts
> > don't work. Nor do any of the links in emails in Outlook.
> >
> > Any help and suggestions would be greatly appreciated, I'm just a wee
> > bit frustrated! I'm not a total newbie, and I did what things I
> > imagined and/or was told would help, and I'm still with the same
> > problem.
> >
> > Thank you.
>
>
> http://windowsxp.mvps.org/IEFIX.htm
>
> --
> Mike Pawlak
>
>
>
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