Re: can't open URLs or attachments
- From: "Bruce Hagen" <Nospam@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 23 Jul 2006 17:16:52 -0700
Unless you go to Windows Updates and download SP2 and the approximately 60 updates that follow it, this thread is moot.
Make sure you disable your anti-virus program before you download SP2 and the following updates.
Post back when you have an up-to-date machine.
--
Bruce Hagen
MS MVP - Outlook Express
~IB-CA~
"Jim" <j_outler.NOSPAM@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:V0Uwg.18998$Nt.16205@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Bruce Hagen wrote:
| Try making sure OE is recognized as the default e-mail client. BTW,
| is your OS Win98?
|
Nope... Windows XP Pro SP1, with majority of updates
'OE' is the default for Mail and Newsgroups; 'Outlook' the default
for Calendar and Contact List
Have never made any changes, but can't say the registry isn't
whacked.
Jim
| Make OE the default e-mail client:
| http://www.oehelp.com/oedef.aspx
|
| For links in e-mail:
| http://www.oehelp.com/oelnk.aspx
|
| And:
| http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=306098
|
| If you have MS Outlook installed, also see:
| http://www.oehelp.com/OETips.aspx#13
|
| "Jim" <j_outler.NOSPAM@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
| news:QzTwg.18771$Nt.14062@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
|| Grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr
||
|| Maybe I was a little hasty in saying that everything was Okey
|| Dokey... (which it was at the time), but I've found I still have
the
|| problem. Explorer STILL wants to know if I want it to be the
|| 'default' browser?
||
|| Upon answering 'Yes', my ability to open URLs in OE goes away,
until
|| I repeat the process of un-checking 'Use DDE' in the aft mentioned
|| procedure!!!
||
|| Use to be able to open links without a problem, not sure what
|| happened. I hope it isn't a by-product of some hot-fix or update,
for
|| that would take days trying to determine which one.
||
|| I do appreciate the help, for it did give a work-around; just wish
it
|| would STICK!!!
||
|| Jim
||
|| Bruce Hagen wrote:
||| You're welcome & thanks for posting back.
|||
||| "Jim" <j_outler.NOSPAM@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
||| news:nOgwg.16094$ZH1.12875@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
||||
||||
|||| Bruce Hagen wrote:
||||| You can try this:
|||||
||||| Try re-registering these dlls:
|||||
||||| Start | Run | type, or Copy/Paste, these in one at a time and
try
||||| again. (Note the space in each command).
|||||
||||| regsvr32 Mshtml.dll
||||| regsvr32 Oleaut32.dll
||||| regsvr32 Shell32.dll
||||| regsvr32 actxprxy.dll
||||| regsvr32 shdocvw.dll
||||| regsvr32 urlmon.dll
|||||
||||| In IE, go to: Tools>Internet Options>Programs. Click: Reset Web
||||| Settings - (uncheck box for homepage) - Click Yes.
|||||
|||||
|||| Thanks Bruce. That seem to have done the trick. I've opened
and
|||| closed IE several times and gone to mail and clicked on links
and
|||| they've worked!!!
||||
|||| Thanks for the help. If anything should go wrong again, will
post
|||| back.
||||
|||| Jim
||||
||||| "Jim" <j_outler.NOSPAM@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
||||| news:X4cwg.12762$Ur.10000@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
||||||
||||||
|||||| Bruce Hagen wrote:
||||||| As long as you haven't downloaded IE7 Beta:
|||||||
||||||| From:
||||||| http://www.fjsmjs.com/OE/nolinks.htm
|||||||
||||||| If nothing happens when you click a link:
||||||| Open Windows Explorer.
||||||| Go to Tools | Folder Options | File Types.
||||||| Scroll down to URL:HyperText Transfer Protocol (NOT
|| URL:Internet
||||||| Shortcut) and select it.
||||||| Click Edit or Advanced, depending on your Windows version.
||||||| Select 'open'.
||||||| Click Edit.
|||||||
||||||| "Application used to perform this action" should read:
|||||||
||||||| "C:\PROGRAM FILES\INTERNET EXPLORER\iexplore.exe" -nohome
||||||| (Check the path to iexplore.exe to make sure that is correct
|| and
||||||| use the double quotes.)
|||||||
||||||| DDE should be checked and in the boxes below it you should
|| have:
|||||||
||||||| #1:
||||||| "%1",,-1,0,,,,
||||||| #2
||||||| IExplore
||||||| #3 (blank)
|||||||
||||||| #4
||||||| WWW_OpenURL
|||||||
||||||| URL:HyperText Transfer Protocol with Privacy should be the
|| same.
|||||||
||||||| Sometimes it is necessary to uncheck Use DDE.
|||||||
|||||||
|||||| UP to this point, the instructions fixes the problem... but
|||||| something else happens that causes me to have to repeat this
|||||| procedure each time I launch a new instance of Explorer.
||||||
|||||| I automatically get a message that states: "Explorer is not
your
|||||| default browser... ". I respond to make it so. After doing
|| this,
|||||| the previous settings have gone and all that is necessary for
me
|| to
|||||| do to regain the ability to launch a URL is to "uncheck Use
DDE"
|||||| and I'm good to go again.
||||||
|||||| Question: How can one make the changes stick??
||||||
||||||
|||||||
||||||| If you get a blank page:
|||||||
|||||||
||||||| 1. Click Start, and then click Run.
|||||||
||||||| 2. In the Open box, type:
|||||||
||||||| regsvr32 urlmon.dll
|||||||
||||||| 3. Click OK, and then click OK again when you receive the
||||||| following message:
|||||||
||||||| DllRegisterServer in urlmon.dll succeeded.
|||||||
|||||||
||||||| 4. If that doesn't fix it, see this article:
|||||||
||||||| http://www.mvps.org/inetexplorer/answers/26.html
|||||||
||||||| 5. If you are using WinXP try this:
||||||| http://www.mvps.org/sramesh2k/reg/IE_Default_Browser.reg
|||||||
|||||||
||||||| You can also try this:
|||||||
||||||| Go to Start/run, and type SFC (msconfig for WinXP).
||||||| Choose 'Extract One File From Installation Disk' ("Expand
File"
||||||| for WinXP). Type oleaut32.dll, not worrying about its
location.
||||||| Then, click Start.
|||||||
||||||| Next to 'Restore From', type in or browse for the file's
|| location,
||||||| which is probably in the Win98 (i386 for WinXP) folder of
your
||||||| installation CD-ROM (typically D:\Win98), or in your
||||||| Windows\Options\Cabs (Windows\i386 for WinXP) folder, as the
|| case
||||||| may be.
|||||||
||||||| Then, next to 'Save File In', enter C:\Windows\System
||||||| (C:\Windows\System32 for WinXP), and click OK. System File
|| Checker
||||||| (or msconfig) looks for the file, saves it as you requested,
|| and
||||||| then tells you that 'the file has been successfully
extracted'.
|||||||
||||||| You may need to reboot.
|||||||
||||||| "FireBrick" <w9ol.nospam@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
||||||| news:OTlv9PMrGHA.4212@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
|||||||| For some reason, I've lost the ability to click on a URL and
|| have
|||||||| IE open the link.
|||||||| Also
|||||||| If I get a file as an attachment, I can no longer open/save
it
|||||||| from OE.
||||||||
|||||||| I've checked all my security settings but can't find
anything
|||||||| wrong.
||||||||
|||||||| Please and thank you.
||||||||
|||||||| --
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|||||||| If at first you don't succeed, skydiving is not for you.
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||||||||
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