Bruce,
Thanks for your help. I have spent the better part of this afternoon
working on the solutions that you posted. However, I got only partial
success. My computer has three user accounts, one for me, my wife and my
son. After doing all that you suggested, I opened OE and clicked on several
hyperlinks and got the web pages. I was all set to celebrate. I decided to
check the other to user accounts and opened up my wife's and then my son's.
Each time I open OE in their accounts, I clicked on a hyperlink and ether
got no response or "My Documents" opened up. I then went through all the
procedures that you gave me for the other two user accounts and all the
settings were as they had been set under my account. No changes were
necessary. The only problem that I had encountered in running through the
solutions was in trying to register Mshtml.dll. On all three accounts, the
Mshtml.dll would not register. The error message advised "Mshtml was
loaded, but the DllRegisterServer entry point was not found. This file can
not be registered." I do not know if this is significant or not. As
mentioned, I resolved the problem under my user account, but not under the
other two. I saw another posting by you in regards to another individual
having a similar problem as myself. It was suggested that the identity in
the account my be damaged and creating a new user account was a possible
remedy. I would think that this may be an option for me and will try this
later today unless I find an alternate solution. Again, thank you.
Regards,
Bill
"Bruce Hagen" wrote in message
...
If this did not work:
From:
http://www.fjsmjs.com/OE/nolinks.htm
If nothing happens when you click a link:
Open Windows Explorer.
Go to Tools | Folder Options | File Types.
Scroll down to {NONE} 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.
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Try this next:
StartRun type, or Copy/Paste, these in one at a time and try again.
(Note the space in each command).
regsvr32 Mshtml.dll
regsvr32 Oleaut32.dll
regsvr32 Shell32.dll
regsvr32 actxprxy.dll
regsvr32 shdocvw.dll
regsvr32 urlmon.dll
In IE, go to: ToolsInternet OptionsPrograms. Click: Reset Web
Settings - (uncheck box for homepage) - Click Yes.
--
Bruce Hagen
MS MVP - Outlook Express
~IB-CA~
"Bill Wittmer" wrote in message
...
I made a mistake when looking at the file types. Upon opening it, I
immediately dropped down to the URL, since that is what appeared in the
Knowledge Base article. I found the file types for File Transfer
Protocol, Gopher Protocol and Hypertext Transfer Protocol. They all had
the proper associations for Internet Explorer. I am perplexed as to why
clicking on a hyperlink will open "My Documents".
"Michael Santovec" wrote in message
...
In "URL: Internet Shortcut", URL is the file extension. This actually
refers to favorites which are *.URL files.
For the various "URL ... Protocol", etc. these have No file extension,
since they aren't files. Assuming that you have the file associations
sorted by extension (click on the column heading to sort on that
column), these will be at the top of the list with the "(NONE)" file
extensions.
--
Mike - http://pages.prodigy.net/michael_santovec/techhelp.htm
"Bill Wittmer" wrote in message
...
I installed a program called Lightshell from
http://www.labyrinth.net.au/~mosses/rob/. Did not care for it and
uninstalled it. From there my problems began. I found that the
WindowsXP shell had been somehow damaged. The icons and taskbar would
not show. Internet Explorer would not open a web page and Outlook
Express would not display the contents of messages in the lower window,
whack remained blank. I ran System File checker and reinstalled SP2 and
got most of the functionality back. However, I am still having a
problem with Outlook Express, the hyperlinks do not work. They will not
open Internet Explorer and sometimes, they will open the "My Documents"
folder. I found KB article 177054. I made sure Internet Explorer was
my default browser. I went into the internet settings and made sure the
Internet Browser was listed as the default browser. I went to Windows
ExplorerToolsFolder Options and verified the file association for
URL's. When I found the URL extension, It was listed as URL: Internet
Shortcut. There was no listing for URL File Transfer Protocol, URL:
Gopher Protocol and URL Hypertext Transfer Protocol. The only thing I
can think of at this time is to do a repair install. But I would like to
exhaust all possible remedies first. I would appreciate any help that
anyone can offer.
Regards,
Bill