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Thank you, Bucket.
Thank you, Bucket.
Thanks to Bucket and Tater. Worked like a champ. Just 1 slight twist to Tater's instructions. When I went to paste Bucket's update into my new text file it tried to use my word processing editor (I use Open Office) and that file didn't work to update the registry. Then I used the "open with" option and used Wordpad to do the paste everything worked and it solved my problem.
Just Shift-click on the link in the email. (Hold down the Shift key and while holding it then click on the link.) That worked for me. None of the other suggestions worked for me.
This is a good correction for the problem I had but it assumes an insecure computer that allows easy changes to system registry keys. A better user registry key that works for both insecure and secure computers is:
Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Classes\htmlfile\shell\opennew\command]
@=""C:\\Program Files\\Internet Explorer\\IEXPLORE.EXE" %1"
Registry editing did not seem to make any difference, tried both.
Also could not find entries in registry that were exactly as I thought I had edited.
The last time I edited a registry was with edlin in DOS 4!
Shift and triple click worked.
Link to confirm joining Forum worked directly!!!!!
Now other links work direcly as well !!!!!