Re: Unable to go to links in e-mails

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Control Panel | Add/Remove Programs | Set Program Access and Defaults | Browser: IE /must/ be chosen here if you're running IE7 and want such links to work.

Hyperlinks do not work in Outlook Express after you upgrade to Internet Explorer 7:
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/929867

If still no joy, for IE6 & IE7:

From:
http://www.fjsmjs.com/OE/nolinks.htm

If nothing happens when you click a link:
Open Windows Explorer, or the Control Panel.
Go to Tools | Folder Options | File Types.
Scroll down to [NONE] 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.
--
Bruce Hagen
MS-MVP Outlook Express
Imperial Beach, CA

"Mike B" <meb851@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:%238xyBJF2HHA.5616@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Nothing happens when I click on a link in e-mail advertising in Outlook Express 6.00.29 SP2. At times I can't even copy the links path when I right click on it and select "copy". I'm not positive, but this problem might have coincided with the installation of IE 7.0.6 (SP2). Firefox 2.0.0.6 is my default explorer, but the links don't work when IE 7 is the active browser either.


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