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Outlook Express problem

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by happy

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I have had this problem with 98SE and Windows 2000 Pro and Outlook Express.
What happens is if, for example, you click on a website link that is supposed to open a new mail for you ready to send.
All that happens is I get loads and loads of Internet Explorer windows will come up, it does eventually stop.
I have also noticed that I cannot set Outlook Express as the default mail handler,
it will allow you to change but will not keep the change.
I have "fixed " it by reloading IE5.
But I am interested to know if anybody else has had this problem and what they did to solve it.

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by sergey kovzik

it's like your registry got corrupted. I has similar problems. all those protocols like http, ftp, mailto, nntp etc are described in registry. so I've checked it and repaired.
you can look into HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\mailto\shell\open\command
there is other keys related to same problem.
because you have now normal registry :) you can search for "mailto" to track links.

by happy

Thanks for replying Sergey and doug if this works then you will split the points as I am closing this question,if not then I appreciate the input

You may be interested to hear that I have found a solution to the problem if in IE5 you go tools--internet options-programs. I discovered that e-mail did not have a program associated with it and the only choices were Goldmine and Microsoft Outlook seeing as I had uninstalled Goldmine I chose Microsoft Outlook.

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