In OE I cannot link to IE with a click

OE just sits there when I click on a known URL instead of going to IE. This is something new.

 

Maybe?

 

That did it. The problem was the question in advanced options/programs was "what is the HTML Editor. I had Frontpage marked and clicked down at the bottom about IE. Thanks much

 

Most welcome

 

FALSE ALARM I thought the problem was solved until I tried it again. I followed the instructions and no change. IE IS the default even tho the instructions were strange "Have IE see it if it is the default" I could have said MAKE it the default. Now it may be checking but not loading.

I'm going to re-install OPERA to see if that loads but I don't want to keep it.

 

Try the fixes in the MS KB article, Internet shortcuts in Outlook Express do not start Web browser. Athough the article says it applies to older versions of IE, it works on IE 6, too.

However, if it doesn't work for you, go to this page and run the regsvr32 commands...have to scroll down a little to see them.

 

There are quite a few regsvr32 commands. Which ones apply to my problem. I don't want to run any that could ***** things up --- (more?)

 

No, they won't mess anything up. You already have the dll files and the should all already be registered. Running those commands will just make sure they are.

 

Very disappointing.

I ran the five regsrv32 commands, got an acknowledgment that they had connected but it made no difference. The only way I have been able to pseudolink from the email replies to my problem, have been to copy/paste the BBS URLs.

I thought that perhaps a reboot might have been needed but that did not help either

Some links in email are indirect such as "click here" and I have been able to use these with a right click that allowed copying the URL. Not the best way but at least I have not been dead in the water.

 

Back on this page are some addtional directions for changing the path to Internet Explorer in the "Application used to perform action" field in Windows Explorer>Tools>Folder Options>File types.

When I've encountered the problem you're having and the regsvrt32 commands don't work, that one has.

 

Sheesh - it seems like this is going on forever.

I had checked the URL listing in file types and I already had it up for IE. However, I copied the line from that location you suggested. When I tried to plug it in, the system could not find iexplore.exe. I looked and it is the correct folder in C:.

Typing "iexplore -nohome" on the RUN or the Dos command line, does load IE.

 

The purpose of that is just to change the path from the "short name" with the tildes to the "long name." I don't know why it works but it does. I've used that fix on a number of different systems and never had a problem with it.

Make sure you've cleared everything out of that field before putting in the new "long name" path. It's easy to miss a letter or two on either end.

If that's not the fix, it looks like your "links in OE don't open browser" problem goes quite a bit deeper than any I've encountered.

 

While I appreciate all the posts I got to try to help me in this linking problem, I was unable to solve it.

Now, I have installed Mozilla as my default browser and the Mozilla email client. I imported all my addresses and the linking is very smooth. Faster, of course, because the browser is already online.

There have been a couple of problems because of the different methods. The most difficult was re-constituting my mailing list groups but it just is a matter of doing it. It works.