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"ah" wrote in message
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I am running Windows XP Pro SP2 with Office 2003 SP2 (having now
uninstalled Office 2007 beta). I commonly use Firefox as browser. I
stupidly updated IE7 to 7.0.5730.11 and now, when I click a link in an
email I get this message. I searched in Google and found the fix that I
copy he
RESOLUTION
To resolve this problem, follow these steps to clear the Use DDE check
box: 1. Double-click My Computer.
2. On the Tools menu, click Folder Options.
3. On the File Types tab, click URL:MailTo Protocol in the Registered
File Types list, and then click Edit.
4. In the Actions box, click Open, and then click Edit.
5. Click to remove the Use DDE check box, and then click OK.
6. Click Close two times.


I did as advised here but even if I "click OK and Close two times"
(actually it is not "OK and Close two times" but OK two times and Close),
the Use DDE turns back to checked because instead of the last Close I
should click Apply but I can not because the Apply box is greyed.

In the procedure, I noticed that the application used to perform the
action was "C:\PROGRA~1\MICROS~3\OFFICE11\OUTLOOK.EXE" therefore, the next
time I got the Locate Link Browser message I went to Program Files etc...
and clicked on Outlook.exe. Now I don't have the message anymore but when
I click on a link in an email, Outlook opens it, instead of Firefox (of
course, because I provided it to the program).

What is strange is that some links actually return a valid page and some
others return a "page not found". As the page not found message happened
a bit too often, I tried to open the same links using Firefox (by reading
my email directly on Gmail) and those links, dead in Outlook, were _not_
dead on Firefox. Strange. But anyway I would like to read on Firefox
rather than on Outlook, as I used to do before updating IE7 to the last
version.

I went back to the procedure and replaced the Outlook.exe link by the
Firefox.exe one but it still reads the links in Outlook, as I provided the
link when I had the locate link browser the first time and now I don't
have this message anymore so I can't change the link.

Could someone help and tell me how to fix this problem, I would be
extremely grateful.

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ah