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Clark Wilson
Applications on my system attempting to open URLs directly fail with a
couple of different messages. One is that there is no file association
for this type. Another is that the specified file could not be found.
With help from newsgroup folks I am fairly sure that my URL file
association is okay. The failure seems to be on whatever the next step
is.
My test is this. I open a cmd.exe window. From the command line I
execute this command:
rundll32.exe shdocvw.dll,OpenURL "http://www.microsoft.com/"
which has the form required by the URL file association registry entry.
I get an error box with the title "Problem with Shortcut" and the text
"This Internet Shortcut cannot be opened because failed to run." Note
the empty name of the thing that should have run.
I think I have a blank or missing entry deep in the registry. I hope
that someone here can tell me how to find and fix the registry entry
(something with "www_openurl" in it?), or can otherwise help me solve
the problem.
Is there a better Microsoft newsgroup to post this in?
Clark Wilson
couple of different messages. One is that there is no file association
for this type. Another is that the specified file could not be found.
With help from newsgroup folks I am fairly sure that my URL file
association is okay. The failure seems to be on whatever the next step
is.
My test is this. I open a cmd.exe window. From the command line I
execute this command:
rundll32.exe shdocvw.dll,OpenURL "http://www.microsoft.com/"
which has the form required by the URL file association registry entry.
I get an error box with the title "Problem with Shortcut" and the text
"This Internet Shortcut cannot be opened because failed to run." Note
the empty name of the thing that should have run.
I think I have a blank or missing entry deep in the registry. I hope
that someone here can tell me how to find and fix the registry entry
(something with "www_openurl" in it?), or can otherwise help me solve
the problem.
Is there a better Microsoft newsgroup to post this in?
Clark Wilson