IE starts magically

[mholt]

When I click on SEND LINK in Firefox, my computer locks up and 48
copies of IE start. It doesn't seem to do anything other than start
-- there's no address in the pages that appear. But it's quite
annoying, and it seems to have started only since Christmas!

I've run virus tests, AdAware, etc., and get nothing at all before and
after triggering the problem.

Any ideas?

 

[Randem]

You definitely have issues on that computer. If you can try restoring you
computer to before you had the problem to see if that cures it.

You can save the registry (export) with the problem, then restore to a point
where you don't have the problem then export that registry to see if you
find differences. It will take some detective work if you don't have a good
text compare program.

Here are other solutions http://www.randem.com/virusproblems.html

 

[Lem]

When I click on SEND LINK in Firefox, my computer locks up and 48
copies of IE start. It doesn't seem to do anything other than start
-- there's no address in the pages that appear. But it's quite
annoying, and it seems to have started only since Christmas!

I've run virus tests, AdAware, etc., and get nothing at all before and
after triggering the problem.

Any ideas?

Assuming that you have FF3 (you didn't say), click on Tools > Options,
then select the Applications tab. Search for mailto in the Content type
column and confirm that the corresponding "Action" is your email program.

If this doesn't solve your issue, ask here:
http://support.mozilla.com/tiki-view_forum.php?locale=en-US&forumId=1&openpost=1
or configure your newsreader to use news.mozilla.org and ask in
mozilla.support.firefox

--
Lem -- MS-MVP

To the moon and back with 2K words of RAM and 36K words of ROM.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollo_Guidance_Computer
http://history.nasa.gov/afj/compessay.htm

 

[PA Bear [MS MVP]]

Multiple browser windows open when you click on a mailto: link:
http://windowsxp.mvps.org/MailtoProtocol.htm

Is FF configured as your default browser?