External hyperlinks not opening.

**Spoonman** · August 23rd, 2006, 08:30 AM

Hi everyone! It's my first post here, so please be gentle

I have a certain problem with external hyperlinks on my Windows XP SP2 PC. I've tried searching for a solution on these forums, but couldn't find anything. Please help me!

The thing is, once I've had my browsers set up this way: my default browser was Firefox 1.5 and it opened all the external hyperlinks (for instance, from ICQ messages, from Excel sheets, from Picard tagger and so on) in a usual fashion.

Then I installed Maxthon and it grabbed hold of all external hyperlinks since the installation. This bugged me a lot, but after I uninstalled Maxthon, all external links stopped opening entirely. I've tried setting my default browser to IE and back to Firefox, but to no avail. Is there something I can do to restore the previous state of things?

Thanks!!!

**rik** · August 23rd, 2006, 13:04 PM

You could run a System Restore back to a point prior to installing Maxthon.

**Spoonman** · August 23rd, 2006, 13:16 PM

Ummm... It looks like I have no system restore checkpoints. I guess I disabled automatic restore point creation to improve my PC's speed. Silly me, I can't reverse the installation this way. Maybe there is some other way I could re-enable the DDE interaction the way it was before?

**Kane** · August 23rd, 2006, 13:47 PM

1. Reinstall Maxthon.
2. Choose Restore Last Default Browser in the Options menu.
Then, uninstall it if you don't plan to use it. (or keep it as a non-default browser).

http://windowsxp.mvps.org/ie/myie2.htm