Thanks again for your help, but I already had tried setting the default
Program Accesses with no luck. In regards to System Restore, I have never
been a fan of System Restore. I found it to be a space hog and to fail when
it was most needed. I have it turned off. I keep periodic images of my
hard drive with True Image and if all else fails I will restore a good
image.

Thanks,
Bill


"Steve Cochran" wrote in message
...
Go to Control Panel | Add / Remove Programs | Set Program access and
defaults and set IE and OE as default. See if that fixes it.

steve

"Bill Wittmer" wrote in message
...
Having exhausted all suggested solutions and the problem still existing,
I thought that maybe some registry editing may solve my problem. As
mentioned, when I click on a hyperlink in Outlook Express, "My Documents"
opens up. Having made all the suggested changes in "File Types" and
still no resolution, I am trying to find the registry keys that effect
what happens when one clicks on a hyperlink. Maybe a change in the
registry will fix the problem. Having read a lot of posts in this
newsgroup, it appears that this is a problem with several posters who
still have not found a resolution to the problem using the information
that was provided. It is evident that some other solution is needed. I
do not want to poke around the registry randomly so I hope that someone
can make a suggestion as to where to look and what keys to check.

Regards,
Bill


"Bill Wittmer" wrote in message
...
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
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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.
**********************************

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