You can try reregistering these dlls.

Start | Run | 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.

If still no joy, you may have a damaged identity. File | Identity | Add New
Identity. Create a new one and test it. If all is well, you can import your
messages from the old identity and delete it.

How to Create and Use Identities in Outlook Express
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=209169
--
Bruce Hagen
MS MVP - Outlook Express
~IB-CA~


"DanR" wrote in message
m...
Bruce Hagen wrote:
Open this link, and go from the
http://www.fjsmjs.com/OE/nolinks.htm

Something may have changed. The two links here work.

I have similar problem. But only some links in OE bring up a blank
page. The
link you provided:
http://www.mvps.org/sramesh2k/reg/IE...lt_Browser.reg
Takes me to a blank page (The page cannot be displayed) with the
error message "Invalid syntax error"
This link (below) works and takes me to the infoweek site:
http://www.informationweek.com/story/IWK20021031S0004
This is inconsistent however. Sometimes links from certain
newsletters will
work and next day they bring up the Syntax error message. Links from
other newsletters always work.
I tried the manual "regsvr32 urlmon.dll" and that didn't help.
I copied and pasted the above mvps link and ran that but that did not
help.
I did the "Go to Tools | Folder Options | File Types" and that is OK.

After typing "this" message and clicking "send" I opened this
message up in
my "outbox" and the "mvps" link now works. I went back to your
original message and the link will not work. And now all of a sudden
the link does work in your original reply. But the:
http://www.mvps.org/inetexplorer/answers.htm#new_window
Gets me a page not found error.
This is very confusing to me as I'm sure my post is to you.

I again clicked send "this" message and opened it up in my outbox.
None of the links in my section of this post worked. All said
"Syntax error". I then open up another newsletter and click a link
and that works. Then I go back to my outbox and all the links in my
section of this post work. I notice a lot of people asking about similar
problems with OE all
of a sudden. Something goofy is going on.

Thanks Bruce. I looked at that page and have tried all methods except the
replacement of the leaut32.dll file. But I just now stumbled on something.
I almost always use the preview pane for reading messages in OE. And from
that preview pane NONE of the links in this current message work. Get
syntax error for every link at this time. But if I double click the
message and open it in its own window the links work. Does that provide
any clues?