Clicked URL Links Open Folder Instead of Browser
Rocinante
Using Outlook Express 6, whenever I click on a url link in a message, it
opens a local folder. Specifically, the "C:\Documents and
Settings\UserName" folder. Links in other programs, including Word, do open
properly in my default browser (Firefox). How do I change this behavior?
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Rocinante...@gmail.com
9/24/2005 11:52:32 PM
Margaret
Open Windows Explorer and click on Tools | Folder Options | File Types, then
scroll down to URL:Hypertext Transfer Protocol. Click Advanced or Edit,
whatever the choice is there. You want to Edit the Open action for this file
type. The values should read as follows:
application:
"C:\Program Files\Internet Explorer\iexplore.exe" -nohome
(edit the path to your installation of IE as necessary)
DDE:
#1: "%1",,-1,0,,,,
#2: IExplore
#3: <blank>
#4: WWW_OpenURL
Also see the following MS Knowledge Base articles:
Internet Shortcuts in Outlook Express Do Not Start Web Browser
http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/q177/0/54.asp
Nothing Happens When You Click a Link in Outlook Express [Q176581]
http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/Q176/5/81.asp
Q260238 - OLEXP: Hyperlinks in Outlook Express May Not Be Active:
http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/Q260/2/38.ASP
OLEXP: "Send To" and E-mail Links Do Not Work w. Outlook Express:
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;Q306098
You Cannot Open New Internet Explorer Window or Nothing Happens After You
Click a Link
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=KB;EN-US;281679
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Margaret
"Rocinante" <Rocinante...@gmail.com> wrote in message
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Rocinante
The only URL file type I see listed is the URL:Internet Shortcut. I don't
see a URL:Hypertext Transfer Protocol.
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Rocinante...@gmail.com
9/25/2005 1:15:10 AM
Frank Saunders, MS-MVP OE
>
> The only URL file type I see listed is the URL:Internet Shortcut. I
> don't see a URL:Hypertext Transfer Protocol.
Look under those with a File Type of NONE.
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