URL will not work from Outlook Express

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Dick Harrison

I am running IE 6 and Outlook Express 6. IE works fine, but when I have a
email with a URL short cut, - the curser changed to a hand when I am over
the text, but nothing happens when I click it. If I cut and past it to IE
it works fine. This just started -- not idea what caused.

Ideas on how to resolve?

Thanks, Dick
 
Dick Harrison said:
I am running IE 6 and Outlook Express 6. IE works fine, but when I
have a email with a URL short cut, - the curser changed to a hand
when I am over the text, but nothing happens when I click it. If I
cut and past it to IE it works fine. This just started -- not idea
what caused.
Ideas on how to resolve?

Thanks, Dick
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From http://www.fjsmjs.com/OE/nolinks.htm

Open Windows Explorer.
Go to Tools | Folder Options | File Types.
Scroll down to URL:HyperText Transfer Protocol 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.

If that doesn't fix it, go to Start | Run and type

regsvr32 urlmon.dll

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Frank, thanks -- your instruction worked -- I got the path using the
"bourse" option, and it did not put in the: -nohome you had in your
instructions. It seems to work -- is this a problem not having the -nohome
at the end of the path?

FYI - the way if got messed up is I installed Mozilla Firefox when I was
having a problem with IE, I got the IE problem fixed but did not uninstall
Firefox. I did uninstall Firefox yesterday and then Outlook URL would not
work. The path in the URL HyperText Transfer Protocol (and several others)
was to Firefox, which does not now exist.

Thanks, Dick
 
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Frank, thanks -- your instruction worked -- I got the path using the
"bourse" option, and it did not put in the: -nohome you had in your
instructions. It seems to work -- is this a problem not having the -nohome
at the end of the path?
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IE Repair always sticks it in (for all except filetype "ftp").

The IE6 Resource Kit gives the clearest description of this switch.
It just looks to me though that it could be nothing more than an optimizer.

http://www.microsoft.com/technet/prodtechnol/ie/reskit/6/part7/z03ie6rk.mspx

<quote>
-nohome

</quote>
Specifies that the browser will start without its home page.




Why not do an experiment and see if leaving it off results in slower
or unexpected rendering? E.g. perhaps without the switch a Home page
would always start to be fetched before the link's page finally replaced
the Home page. Or in the case of Home pages which involve multiple
redirects perhaps sometimes the rendering of a link page could get
aborted by residual processing of the Home page, etc.

Another ambiguity present in the definition it seems to me is whether
such extra processing (or the avoidance of it) would occur only if
iexplore.exe was not already active. So I suggest you work that factor
into your testing too.


Good luck

Robert Aldwinckle
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