The user will see a dialog that asks what program you want to use to open the link. Clicking the Always use this app box does not save the changes - the next time you click a link, the dialog comes up again.
Some users will see the Locate Link Browser window, while one Outlook 2003 user reported that Internet Explorer opened to the site's home page. Only Internet Explorer has a problem opening links, they work fine in Edge or Chrome, just not in Internet Explorer. To fix it, add this value to the registry: HKEYCLASSESROOT htmlfile shell opennew command Default value: 'C: Program Files Internet Explorer IEXPLORE.EXE'%1 The Default value above will open the link in a new browser window. If you want to use a new tab in an open browser, use cmd /c START 'C: Program Files Internet Explorer iexplore.exe' '%1' instead.
Outlook on Windows 10: Hyperlinks Don't Work Another week, another problem with Outlook and Windows 10. This time only 32-bit versions of Office 2010, plus Outlook 2007, and Outlook.
Links containing an & should open properly in new tabs using the command line above. The original CMD version offered by Microsoft did not work with & signs in the URL. The registry file was updated with the new command line. You'll need to create both the opennew and command keys then add the url to the default value. (It's the same value found in the open command key) Do It For Me If you don't want to edit the registry yourself, you can run this prepared.reg file: To remove the OpenNew key (and Command subkey), use this reg file.
To simplify all this, keep in mind that this is almost always a browser problem in that the Office app has to fire up a browser to follow the link and does not know which one. Essentially, that's it.
Fooling around with browser default settings can clobber a line in the Registry. Go to Settings and set the default browser to IE.
Try the ctrl-click on a link. If it works, reset the default browser to another browser and try again. This is the easiest check and should be done first before getting crazy with reloads, uninstalls, and Registry editing. If it doesn't work, go crazy! I'm no geek so have no idea if it replaced Outlook Express.
But I think so. My PC doctor, bless him, did something so now I can open the links. The 'advanced settings' in 'Accounts/Properties' had somehow got changed after the update. However, emails don't open automatically any more but will open via the 'send/receive button' and clicking on 'default e-mail'. Had to update Adobe Reader as well as PDF files wouldn't open either. I just wish someone would give us ordinary folk who don't do games or watch videos or need complicated graphics software, etc., a simple OS that would: let us use old software that worked up to Windows XP - how I miss my Quicken 2000 Deluxe - need a separate computer just for that!; didn't screw up internet and e-mails; worked on a PC as old as 8 years.