Computer help forum: cannot click on links in email

and do try it first--follow the resolution steps in this link:
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;Q281679

or you can check the following (This method involves manually editing the file type association):

1. Double-click the My Computer icon.

2. On the View menu, click Folder Options (Microsoft Windows 98) or Options (Microsoft Windows NT), and then click the File Types tab. In Microsoft Windows 2000, click Folder Options on the Tools menu.

3. In the Registered File Types box, click URL: Hypertext Transfer Protocol. In Windows 2000, click File Types to sort the files alphabetically. The programs that are listed in the Opens With box are the programs with which hyperlinks are currently associated.

4. If the program in the Opens With box is Iexplore (Microsoft Internet Explorer), click the Edit button. If another program, such as Netscape, is associated with this file type, you must troubleshoot that program to reassociate the file type. (hint--make MSIE your default then change it later.)

5. In the Edit File Type dialog box, be sure that open is listed in the Actions box. If open is not listed, click New, type open in the Action box, and then click OK.

6. Click open, and then click Edit.

7. In the Application used to perform action box, you see the following text, including the quotation marks:
"C:\PROGRA~1\INTERN~1\iexplore.exe" %1
In some cases, the "%1" may have been replaced by something else.

8. Save these settings, and then repeat the process for other URL protocol file types.


Then too, some programs that control pop-up windows and advertisements can stop hyperlinks from working. Also, some third-party add-ins are known to cause a problem and must be uninstalled when misbehaving in this way.

My Question is:

In the email, is the link(URL) highlighted in blue or not?


I had a friend that used webtv and when they would send me emails with URL's, they would not work. I had to copy and paste the URL to the address bar.



Hope this helps.


Rick

Thank you........ the folder opetion in IE worked. Why didn't I think of that?

My father in law had this problem beginning immediately after downloading and installing this weeks patches. I had him run IEFix and it corrected the problem. I just wonder if it has to do with the updates as the few entries in this thread seem to have started this week.

Just curious.

the fix offered by Edward and Tufenuf? The "URLMON.DLL" did the trick for me. I suddenly had this problem and don't know if one of my spyware scan programs quarintined something I needed, or what. I ran CCleaner, Spycatcher, and Ewido before this problem started.

Hello
I wonder if other files are damaged too,because I noticed that when I went to put back the driver,the driver was there but it seemed defaced,I cannot find any other way to described it,after I replaced Actxprxy.dll the hyperlinks worked,I looked at the other drivers in System 32 and some of them looked the same way,,the computer also could not find mswrd632wpc and it was there but it looked like the defaced driver too,so perhaps something happened to some of the service pack files,I really must order the sp2 cd,I don't know why I did not do it.

i cannot click on links in emails