- Links are COLD
- Posted by Jeff Strickland on April 6th, 2008
I use XP Home and OE6 for my news client. I have recently found that links
in news messages are cold. The cursor changes to a finger as it flies over a
link, but there is no response to any link when it is clicked.
I just checked, and URLs in a regular e-mail are cold too. I get a response
to mailto: links (a new message is opened and addressed to the mailto
, but
links to a url -- www.microsoft.com, for example are cold. I have to copy
the URL and paste it into the browser address bar.
I think I started this problem when I removed the browser that iTunes is
giving away. I tried the iTunes browser for a couple of days and decided I
did not like it. Upon uninstalling it and setting IE back to the Default
Browser, I notice that IE does not launch when a link is clicked.
My guess is that the iTunes browser used a common DLL, then uninstalled the
DLL when it was removed.
The iTunes browser is called Safari. I don't recall what I decided I don't
like, but uninstalling it has caused an unintended consequence.
I think I need to reinstall IE to recover from the problem, but I do not
want IE7 and I can't get IE6. Can I?
- Posted by sandy58 on April 7th, 2008
On Apr 7, 12:32 am, "Jeff Strickland" <cr...@verizon.net> wrote:
Cold? You mean DEAD?
- Posted by Jeff Strickland on April 7th, 2008
"sandy58" <aleckie60@googlemail.com> wrote in message
news:e11266be-6406-4ee9-b71d-6c61b530269e@p25g2000hsf.googlegroups.com...
Yes. Links work or do not work. When they work they are hot or live, when
they do not work they are cold or dead.
I'm not really looking to define a dead link or a live one, I'm trying to
get the links working again.
The links work if I copy and paste them, but not when I click them within an
e-mail or news message.
- Posted by sandy58 on April 7th, 2008
On Apr 7, 5:12 pm, "Jeff Strickland" <cr...@verizon.net> wrote:
I take it that they (links in e-mail or message) are underlined? Sent
like that?
- Posted by Jeff Strickland on April 7th, 2008
"sandy58" <aleckie60@googlemail.com> wrote in message
news:c9d0af77-09ce-4634-b6cd-350d6d905fd6@b5g2000pri.googlegroups.com...
Of course.
The cursor knows they are links because it turns to a finger as it flies
over.
- Posted by Jeff Strickland on April 7th, 2008
"sandy58" <aleckie60@googlemail.com> wrote in message
news:c9d0af77-09ce-4634-b6cd-350d6d905fd6@b5g2000pri.googlegroups.com...
Links to launch e-mail work fine -- I have a message with a link to an
e-mail account and that link works properly by launching my mail client --
but links to websites do not work because they do not launch my browser.
