Click URL and Website can't be found.

[Confuzzled]

Since installing IE8, when I click on a link from Windows Mail, I get a
message that the URL can not be found. When I close out the error message,
and click on the link again, it brings me to the Website. Only the first
click of the link brings the error message. This only happens with links
from Windows Mail, not links from the browser.

Any ideas? Thanks!
Confuzzled

 

[PA Bear [MS MVP]]

Is IE configured as your default browser?

What anti-virus application or security suite is installed and is your
subscription current? What anti-spyware applications (other than Defender)?
What third-party firewall (if any)? Were any of these applications running
in the background when you installed IE8?

Has a Norton or McAfee application ever been installed on this machine
(e.g., a free-trial version that came preinstalled when you bought it)?

Just asking for now!! Do NOT use such a Restore Point yet!! => Do you have
an available Restore Point which predates the install of IE8?
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~Robear Dyer (PA Bear)
MS MVP-IE, Mail, Security, Windows Client - since 2002

 

[Gary VanderMolen]

Sounds like Internet Explorer doesn't have all its defaults.
Open the Default Programs applet, which you can access either from
the Start menu or via the Control Panel, then click the first item:
"Set your default programs."
After a few seconds, a list of programs comes up. Click on "Internet
Explorer". If it doesn't respond with "This program has all its defaults"
then fix it by clicking on the option indicated by the first green arrow.

If no improvement:
The following procedure will rewrite the default protocol
assignments in the registry:
Open the Default Programs applet, then click on "Set program
access and computer defaults." Expand the Custom selection, and
select Internet Explorer. Click OK.