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| 491752 | 2006-10-16 02:55:00 | I have downloaded latest versions of Thunderbird & Firefox in the hopes that it might solve a problem - but it doesn't. When I click on a link in email it doesn't open Firefox or anything else. The same happens when I try to do the same in Outlook express. It has just suddenly started doing this. I have scanned for virus & adware - nothing. Any ideas? | peterdb (10059) | ||
| 491753 | 2006-10-16 03:04:00 | Go to "Add and remove programs" in Control panel and Check "Set Program Access and Defaults" | KiwiTT_NZ (233) | ||
| 491754 | 2006-10-16 03:17:00 | Thanks - tried that but still doesn't work | peterdb (10059) | ||
| 491755 | 2006-10-16 03:57:00 | Why would a link in email open firefox? Make OE the default email program. |
Speedy Gonzales (78) | ||
| 491756 | 2006-10-16 06:02:00 | Hi peterdb, i came across the same thing on a friends system i have here, the culprit was somebody had helpfully installed IE7 beta2, apparently a common side affect for some users with IE7beta versions. Don't know if this will be the case for you??, but if you do have IE7B2, to resolve it, update to the RC1 version, then set firefox as default again within firefox, reboot and alls fine again. | J ZEP (336) | ||
| 491757 | 2006-10-17 00:52:00 | Thanks J ZEP I have tried to remove IE& beta 2 but without success - the uninstaller hangs part way through. However I reinstalled beta 3 and it all now works. I still need to remove remnants of beta 2. What is RC1 version? | peterdb (10059) | ||
| 491758 | 2006-10-17 01:57:00 | Why would a link in email open firefox? Make OE the default email program. because it's a LINK and they're using FF as the default browser.......when you clik a link, as you well know speedy it opens the browser not the mail program lol try this; copy all the text between the stars here into a notepad file then saveas OEmail.bat then double clik the resulting file that may help ****************************** @echo off regsvr32 urlmon.dll /s regsvr32 Shdocvw.dll /s regsvr32 Actxprxy.dll /s regsvr32 Oleaut32.dll /s regsvr32 Mshtml.dll /s regsvr32 Browseui.dll /s regsvr32 Shell32.dll /s echo ALL DONE Pause *********************************************** |
drcspy (146) | ||
| 491759 | 2006-10-17 03:40:00 | Well depends where the link is pointing to :D | Speedy Gonzales (78) | ||
| 491760 | 2006-10-17 07:21:00 | Thanks J ZEP I have tried to remove IE& beta 2 but without success - the uninstaller hangs part way through. However I reinstalled beta 3 and it all now works. I still need to remove remnants of beta 2. What is RC1 version? Glad that helped, took me a couple of hours to realise it was IE7 causing the problem, i personally don't use IE, i'm a Firefox user myself ;). RC1 = Release candidate 1, which being RC "should", be more stable than any beta version (which are ironing out the bugs). Alpha, beta, RC then final release - think thats the general order they come out. (Alpha, Beta being first and second letters in greek alphabet). You can download it Here (www.microsoft.com) |
J ZEP (336) | ||
| 491761 | 2006-10-18 04:43:00 | I spoke too soon - it started playing up again. Am downloading RC1 to see if that will work. I am using Firefox & Thunderbird as defaults but the problem is in those c-I click on a link in TB and nothing happens. Something else has gone a little haywire too but Im not sure what yet. |
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