Glad to hear you found the cause. Spam programs, antivirus programs,
spyware guardians, popup blockers, etc., all seem to cause unusual problems
for Outlook Express. That may be the major disadvantage to the MS decision
to split the IE team apart from the OE team of developers. The integration
appears to be disintegrating right before our eyes.
--
Jim Pickering, MVP, Windows Mail Apps
"dpm" wrote in message
...
Thanks for the response. I tried these suggestions and a whole lot more,
including going back to five days ago with System Restore.
It finally hit me that when it started to bring up the link then
disappear, it was almost like blocking a pop-up window. My pop-up blocker
had been working just fine [have used the same one for about 2 months now]
but in back tracking, I found that it had auto-updated from version 4.3 to
4.4 yesterday and guess what [yep, there's the problem]. After deleting
the program from the system, everything works fine again. Have emailed the
blocker support to either get a fix, or a download back to the earlier
version.
I gotta remember to stop these automatic updates when I install the
programs.
Thanks again for the reply.
dpm
"Jim Pickering" jimp (AT) mvps.org wrote in message
...
See if these help fix the problem (assuming you've not omitted info
relating to an install of IE7):
Internet Shortcuts in Outlook Express Don't Start Browser [Q177054]
http://support.microsoft.com/support.../Q177/0/54.asp
Nothing Happens When You Click a Link in Outlook Express [Q176581]
http://support.microsoft.com/support.../Q176/5/81.asp
Q260238 - OLEXP: Hyperlinks in Outlook Express May Not Be Active:
http://support.microsoft.com/support.../Q260/2/38.ASP
OLEXP: "Send To" and E-mail Links Do Not Work w. Outlook Express:
http://support.microsoft.com/default...;en-us;Q306098
You Cannot Open New Internet Explorer Window or Nothing Happens After You
Click a Link
http://support.microsoft.com/default...B;EN-US;281679
Also might want to see this information from Frank Saunders, MVP-Outlook
Express:
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.
--
Jim Pickering, MVP, Windows Mail Apps
https://mvp.support.microsoft.com/pr...8-1171988A62D6
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"dpm" wrote in message
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I'll try to explain this as best I can [I'm late for work already and
will have to review replies later].
As of yesterday, I can not access the internet thru a link in my email.
When I click on a link, it starts to open the IE window then it closes
[very fast, one second it's starting to open then it's gone]. As a test,
I sent myself an email with a link to eBay. Can't open it from OE but if
I save the link to my desktop and click on it, it works fine. As is
usually the case, I haven't changed any settings prior to this
happening.
Any suggestions??? TIA
dpm