Outlook or OE6 email links fail to open IE6

[coyote3141]

http links embedded within received messages fail to open IE6.0 when clicked (instead, nothing happens). I just switched to IE6.0 from NS4.8, a clue? Netscape is fully uninstalled. IE6.0 SP1 (w/OE6.0) are now default browser and email client resp. Security settings do not appear to be an issue. IE and OE (and Outlook 2000) seem to run fine otherwise.

 

[joegz]

Check the file association for the type URL:Hypertext Transfer Protocol to see what command it is running.

Under Explorer click on TOOLS - Folder Options and then File Types. If your on W2K you can hit the N key on your keyboard to take you to the N/A file types. Look for the file type mentioned and then select ADVANCED.

Select the OPEN action and click on edit and look at the command line it is running. It should look similar to this (assuming DDE is not being used):

"C:\PROGRA~1\INTERN~1\iexplore.exe" -nohome "%1" joegz
"Sometimes you just need to find out what it's not first to figure out what it is."

 

[SESaskDFC]

Howdy Coyote"

Try this..

Start>Run Type in regsvr32.exe urlmon.dll (copy and paste the command if you wish) and press <enter>

Wait for the confirmation dialogue and then reboot.

Murray

 

[Kento]

Wouldn't it be nice if posters actually replied on these forums? Anyway, if none of the above helps then extract a new oleaut32.dll file and see if that fixes it.

 

[coyote3141]

Howdie & thanks to all, but none of the suggestions solve problem.
Reinstall of Office2K/OL2000 did not solve it either. OE6 is not used at all at present so it's probably irrelevant.
More refined problem description follows. Clue(?): OL2000 New email font/line formatting (bold, underline, left, etc.) is not available - i.e. options are grayed out - but remarkably these same format options work fine in Reply to email. Also, click on embedded links which actually read like URLs, e.g.

http://www.anything...

or

http://anything,

work just fine (IE6 opens and goes forth). Only embedded links of a general text flavor, e.g. &quot;Go to this page&quot; w/associated URL shown of course, fail to respond at all. The cursor does change to the link &quot;finger&quot; but otherwise nothing happens when I click.

 

[joegz]

When the mouse pointer goes over the link does it display in the status bar what the address is? If it does what is the format of the address?

I don't know if it was intentional or not but your embedded link of Go to this page is not an embedded link. It is not pointing anywhere.

joegz
&quot;Sometimes you just need to find out what it's not first to figure out what it is.&quot;