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Old January 24th 10, 09:52 PM posted to microsoft.public.windows.inetexplorer.ie6_outlookexpress
William Thompson
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Default News link


"Michael Santovec" wrote in message
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You are going about it the wrong way. If you want OE to open news links,
it needs to be the default for news links. Your default browser doesn't
matter.

In IE look at Tools, Internet Options, Programs, is OE set as the default
for Newsgroups?

In OE look at Tools, Options, General, is it set as the default news
handler?

Also try: Start, Run and enter the following (with the quotation marks):
"C:\Program Files\Outlook Express\msimn.exe" /reg
assuming that is the path to msimn.exe on your PC. This reinitializes
some registry settings.


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Mike - http://TechHelp.Santovec.us



"David Haggas" wrote in message
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"PA Bear [MS MVP]" wrote in message
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Start he Start he http://windowsupdate.microsoft.com

Then make IE your default browser again.


Made Firefox default then IE8. Made no difference.
FF and Chrome both launch OE even when they are not the default browser.
There must be a corrupt or missing file somewhere. Re-install IE8?
Windows update is up to date.




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