Send Page / Send A Link not working

[Guest]

I have Windows XP and recently (no exact date or any known changes or updates
I may have made) have been unable to use the mail (send a page or link)
option on the IE toolbar. Also I cannot, on either My Documents or My
Pictures choose one and then right click to 'send to mail recipient' On each
of these occasions,which would have opened my hotmail new message option,
WHEN CLICKING ON "SEND PAGE" OR "SEND A LINK", HOTMAIL NO LONGER WORKS -
"SEND PAGE" RESULTS IN THE FOLLOWING URL AND PAGE:

http://www.hotmail.com/secure/start...9AT0JWF\hmposturl.htm^::hmposturl.htm::^4068;

Server Error in '/' Application.
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The resource cannot be found.
Description: HTTP 404. The resource you are looking for (or one of its
dependencies) could have been removed, had its name changed, or is
temporarily unavailable. Please review the following URL and make sure that
it is spelled correctly.

Requested Url: /secure/start




WHEN CLICKING ON "SEND A LINK" RESULTS IN THE FOLLOWING URL AND PAGE:

http://www.hotmail.com/secure/start...\CH2ZCTQF\hmposturl.url^::hmposturl.url::^94;

Server Error in '/' Application.
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The resource cannot be found.
Description: HTTP 404. The resource you are looking for (or one of its
dependencies) could have been removed, had its name changed, or is
temporarily unavailable. Please review the following URL and make sure that
it is spelled correctly.

Requested Url: /secure/start



I TRIED THIS WORKAROUND TO NO AVAIL:

Workaround:

The address bar shows this entry:

http://www.hotmail.com/secure/start?action=compose&[email protected]

Changing the above to the following line helps:

http://www.hotmail.msn.com/secure/start?action=compose&[email protected]

To make this permanent, try these steps:

Open Regedit and navigate to:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Clients\Mail\Hotmail

Create a new REG_SZ value named posturl

Double-click posturl and set its value exactly as given below:

http://hotmail.msn.com/secure/start


THANKS IN ADVANCE FOR ANY HELP (WinXP - IE6 - SP2 + updates)

Mike

 

[PA Bear]

See Ramesh' page: http://windowsxp.mvps.org/hmposturl.htm