Windows 10: Can not declare IE 11 as default program

I am glad that this also happens with outtlook 2007.
This confirms one more than Microsoft on purpose to force our hand on their Edge that does not work well.

 

Clearly an Outlook only problem. I can make a link in Word 2010, click on it and IE comes right up. I can attach that Word doc to an email and email myself. When I receive the Word attachment the link brings up IE with no prompting.

 

Please read through the thread again. You will see that the problem is specific to the combination "Outlook 2010 & IE11 & Windows 10." It is not resolved by setting defaults.

 

Normal it work if you launch the link from the .DOC file attached (CTRL + Link).
In that same message paste the link in the message body and when you receive the message, click on this link and not the link in the attachment. You will see that ask you to choose

 

Look at the default protocols for Outlook and URL:

Control Panel > Associate a file type or protocol with a program
Scroll down to the Protocol listings

HTTP URL:HyperText Transfer Protocol Internet Explorer HTTPS URL:HyperText Transfer Protocol with Privacy Internet Explorer FTP URL:File Transfer Protocol Internet Explorer
I haven't used Outlook (OL 98 was the last version I had a license) in many years, but there's a fragment memory that indicates OL has it's own protocol set or subset.

If the protocols above look ok, post a screen shot of the protocol list - there might be an OL: specific protocol ... I just don't have the means to check it on my machines.

 

Thanks for the protocol list mtroxel,

I don't see anything that would help, but I'm working on old memory (if it's not in the list, I'd have to recall what that might be).

I'm shooting in the dark, so please bear with suggestions I'll make.

See if turning off automatic hyperlinking has any affect.

Is there any way to export an eMail msg to a text .eml file (save as)?
It might be helpful to see the actual code, but I think it's related to the way MS processed URLs in earlier Office and Outlook.
Link keeps cropping up from the recesses - MSO had it's own Link definition for URLs ...

I'm fairly sure that there is a configuration option that controls how URLs are handled in MSO, but .... these are really old memories in an ancient brain *Wink

If you can export/save the msg as a text .eml file and are willing to post the content

*Arrow BE CERTAIN to remove all eMaill addresses (sender and recipients) from the file BEFORE posting it.

 

This looks promising for the issue

Microsoft Outlook Hyperlinks Fail to Work | Productivity Portfolio

The MS Fixit link did not open for me, but the rest of the article has a lot of things to try.

 

Not true. It also happens with Outlook 2003 and IE11 and Windows 10. I have posted the problem in this forum and in the MicroSoft forum. And if you read the other posts you will see that it also does not work with Outlook 2007. Apparently , the only one that does work is Outlook 2016.

Z

 

You might try disabling IE 11 in Control Panel > Pgms & Feat > Turn Windows features on or off
Restart the machine, then re-enable IE 11
go through the motions of setting IE as your default browser and see if there is any change.

If that did not help, see if there is a repair option for Outlook in Pgms & Feats - repair Outlook if that option is available.

It might just take a registry kick to make this work.

 

Just tried it SlartyBart. Turned it off, didn't help. Turned it back on, didn't help. Keep in mind these are on emails I receive. If I send myself and email with a link, the link doesn't bring up IE, but same for ones sent to me. See next note.

Outlook won't let me save in that format, but it will let me save in .txt. Here's one from this forum, but I don't think that tells you anything you don't already know.

 

Here is part of a Outlook 2003 email that I turned into text so you can see the code:


Breaking News from Moneynews


Larry Lindsey: Fed Won't Dare Raise Rates <
http://news.newsmax.com/?SKCDaWf17cOvZglI8WeULU.mE3bGbfUZS&http://www.newsmax.com/Finance/Stree...t_nbr=afzo84vc>


Related: Steve Forbes Slams the Fed in This Video <
http://news.newsmax.com/?K6C6aNfAZcJ6cgrI8WeUPU.mExbGNfRZK&https://w3.newsmax.com/LP/Finance/IC...t_nbr=afzo84vc>


Larry Summers: Yuan Devaluation Raises Big Deflation Risk <
http://news.newsmax.com/?S6CDaNf17ZOvcLrU8WnUPU.7ExynbfRBS&http://www.newsmax.com/Finance/Stree...t_nbr=afzo84vc>

Does that help?

Z

 

Tried all of that.

• Have gone back & forth on default browsers many times to no effect.
• Re-registered all the .dll's in that article. They all registered except for these:
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
• His directions for resetting the (none) http and https file types are for XP. I know where he's going, done it many times. But they don't work for Win 10 and I don't know how to get to that point in the GUI, but if I go to the registry and look at the two keys in yellow, they both have the %1 switch as shown below.

 

You're right. I should have said Outlook 2010 and earlier. It seems really weird to me that, at least in Office 2010, Outlook is the only one that gives the nag screen. I like IE11 better than FireFox, but at least email links open right away in FireFox (if that's your default browser). I'm going to try that for a while with the one machine I still have Win 10 on.

 

Yeah, that wasn't much help (either my suggestion or the text format). Thanks though.