Since sending the message below, I've read Bruce Hagen's reply as follows to
a similar enquiry, and my further queries are interleaved:

"Bruce Hagen" wrote in message
...
Control Panel | Add/Remove Programs | Set Program Access and Defaults |
Browser: IE /must/ be chosen here if you're running IE7 and want such
links to work.

LG: My settings are all under 'Custom' and the first one is set to 'Use my
current Web browser' [IE7 is the only browser that I have installed] and
there's a tick against 'Enable access to this program' [referring to
Internet Explorer]. Presumably this is correct. Still nothing happens when
I click a link.

If still no joy:

From:
http://www.fjsmjs.com/OE/nolinks.htm

If nothing happens when you click a link:
Open Windows Explorer, or the Control Panel.
Go to Tools | Folder Options | File Types.
Scroll down to [NONE] URL:HyperText Transfer Protocol (NOT URL:Internet
Shortcut) and select it.
Click Edit or Advanced, depending on your Windows version.
Select 'open'.
Click Edit.

LG: I use Windows XP Home, and after clicking 'Advanced' there is no 'Open'
and I cannot select 'Edit' because it is greyed out. Should I select 'New'
and add the data (including the DDE stuff)? It's the same story with URL:
Hypertext Transfer Protocol with Privacy.

"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~


"Lindsay Graham" wrote in message
...
I'm using WinXP with IE7 and OE6. Not sure whether the problem is with OE
or not, but perhaps someone can advise ...

For the last few days (it was fine before that), www links quoted in
emails to me will not work, whether single-clicked or double-clicked. Is
there some setting that can affect this in OE or elsewhere? The only
possibly relevant change that I can think of is that I've changed ISPs
(I'm travelling and have just moved from France to Hong Kong).

Lindsay Graham
normally in Canberra, Australia