You have to have URL:HyperText Transfer Protocol. See the attached screen
shot.

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 URL:HyperText Transfer Protocol (NOT URL:Internet Shortcut)
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.
--
Bruce Hagen
MS MVP - Outlook Express
~IB-CA~

"patrick" wrote in message
...
Yesterday I was downloading daag.exe and some other documentation from the
msdn paterns and practices site. I was asked to do a survey and agreed.
The
survey window said it would activate when I was done browsing the
"patterns
and practices" section. when I cloed the site, IE displayed a message that
it
had encountered and error and had to close. I did not send an error
report,
but guesss I should have.

Anyway, the next time I used Outlook Express and tried to click a link in
an
email, nothing happened. I tried another email link that had worked
sometime
before, but nothing happened with that either. So I began looking for
answers
with google. I found a lot of answers. One I saw in several places said to
check file associations and make sure "URL:Hypertext Transfer" was set to
"%windir% iexplore.exe", and to make sure you do not use the "URL:
Internet
Shortcut" item. But I do not have any file association labled
"URL:Hypertext
Transfer". I tried to create a new entry named "URL:Hypertext Transfer",
but
a dialog box pops up saying this action would delete/replace the other URL
entry ("URL: Internet Shortcut"). I did not want to do that. I know this
stuff is in the registry, can I eneter it in there, and where would I look
for directions? I don't want to reintall IE again, that makes me have to
reinstall service packs and patches all over agian, too. TIA