I have this problem on my home computer as well as the computer at
work.
Home: XP Media Center 2005 SP2, Office 2003, IE7
Work: XP Pro SP2, Office 2003, IE6

While reading e-mail using Outlook, or from a Word document, I click
on a Web link:
1) If I have IE opened, I'll either get a new tab (IE7) or a new IE6
Window with that Web page opened.
2) If I don't have IE opened, about about 20 seconds I get a window
(similar to Windows Explorer) asking where the browser executable is
located. If I close that window and start IE, then click the link
again, I get the results as in #1 above.

Any ideas?
Thank you.

On Jan 25, 7:21*am, Clamorous <Joseph.San...@goodrich.com> wrote:
> I have this problem on my home computer as well as the computer at
> work.
> Home: XP Media Center 2005 SP2, Office 2003, IE7
> Work: XP Pro SP2, Office 2003, IE6
>
> While reading e-mail using Outlook, or from a Word document, I click
> on a Web link:
> 1) If I have IE opened, I'll either get a new tab (IE7) or a new IE6
> Window with that Web page opened.
> 2) If I don't have IE opened, about about 20 seconds I get a window
> (similar to Windows Explorer) asking where the browser executable is
> located. If I close that window and start IE, then click the link
> again, I get the results as in #1 above.
>
> Any ideas?
> Thank you.

Hello Clamorous,

You could try re-associating the URL (internet shortcut) file type.
You can download the fix here:

http://dougknox.com/xp/file_assoc.htm

Scroll down to URL File Association Fix

On Jan 25, 7:40*am, Claymore <claym...@ontera.net> wrote:
> On Jan 25, 7:21*am, Clamorous <Joseph.San...@goodrich.com> wrote:
>
>
>
>
>
> > I have this problem on my home computer as well as the computer at
> > work.
> > Home: XP Media Center 2005 SP2, Office 2003, IE7
> > Work: XP Pro SP2, Office 2003, IE6
>
> > While reading e-mail using Outlook, or from a Word document, I click
> > on a Web link:
> > 1) If I have IE opened, I'll either get a new tab (IE7) or a new IE6
> > Window with that Web page opened.
> > 2) If I don't have IE opened, about about 20 seconds I get a window
> > (similar to Windows Explorer) asking where the browser executable is
> > located. If I close that window and start IE, then click the link
> > again, I get the results as in #1 above.
>
> > Any ideas?
> > Thank you.
>
> Hello Clamorous,
>
> You could try re-associating the URL (internet shortcut) file type.
> You can download the fix here:
>
> http://dougknox.com/xp/file_assoc.htm
>
> Scroll down to URL File Association Fix- Hide quoted text -
>
> - Show quoted text -

Claymore,

Thank you. This did work on the PC at work, I'll now try this over the
weekend with my home PC.

Thank you for your quick and accurate assistance.
Joe

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Clamorous wrote:
> I have this problem on my home computer as well as the computer at
> work.
> Home: XP Media Center 2005 SP2, Office 2003, IE7
> Work: XP Pro SP2, Office 2003, IE6
>
> While reading e-mail using Outlook, or from a Word document, I click
> on a Web link:
> 1) If I have IE opened, I'll either get a new tab (IE7) or a new IE6
> Window with that Web page opened.
> 2) If I don't have IE opened, about about 20 seconds I get a window
> (similar to Windows Explorer) asking where the browser executable is
> located. If I close that window and start IE, then click the link
> again, I get the results as in #1 above.
>
> Any ideas?
> Thank you.