Messed up mail link

[Ernie Lane]

I just got a new computer (XP Home) and I use the Internet Explorer and
Outlook Express that came with it. The link between IE and OE is messed up:

- When I click on the email button and select 'send link,' I get the Choose
Profile window, select the only one there, and then nothing happens.
Shouldn't it open a New Message window or something?

- When I click on an email (Mailto link, I get an apparent freeze, and
then after a couple of minutes I get an IE windows that says, "Could not
perform this operation because the default mail client is not properly
installed." When I click the OK button, I start getting dozens of IE
windows, one every couple of seconds, and I have to end the IE task in the
task manager to get out of it.

Any ideas?

Ernie Lane

 

[Ramesh [MVP]]

Multiple browser windows open when you click on a mailto: link:
http://www.mvps.org/sramesh2k/MailtoProtocol.htm

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Ramesh, Microsoft MVP
Windows XP Shell/User
http://www.mvps.org/sramesh2k

Windows 2000 Group Policy Registry Table:
http://www.microsoft.com/windows2000/techinfo/reskit/en-us/gp/gpref.asp

I just got a new computer (XP Home) and I use the Internet Explorer and
Outlook Express that came with it. The link between IE and OE is messed up:

- When I click on the email button and select 'send link,' I get the Choose
Profile window, select the only one there, and then nothing happens.
Shouldn't it open a New Message window or something?

- When I click on an email (Mailto link, I get an apparent freeze, and
then after a couple of minutes I get an IE windows that says, "Could not
perform this operation because the default mail client is not properly
installed." When I click the OK button, I start getting dozens of IE
windows, one every couple of seconds, and I have to end the IE task in the
task manager to get out of it.

Any ideas?

Ernie Lane