"http://" prefix not triggering browser

**Katsu999** · 2011-06-11 06:15

Hi All

Recently my XP-SP3 PC stopped reacting to clicking on anything starting with "http://".

I seem to remember this is similar to suffixes (.doc , .txt) in that they can 'point' to a program, but I can't remember where in windows I'd set this for "http://".

Thanks for jogging my memory, and no, I don't remember what I did to break it!

Will

**Medico** · 2011-06-11 07:14

I wonder if somehow you lost your file association. Check out this article from MS and see if it helps.

**Katsu999** · 2011-06-16 10:53

Thanks for that, but it's not a Suffix (AKA File Extension) problem (blah.doc blah.txt), its a Prefix problem (http://blah), and that MS page is just for Suffix's.

Anyone else have an idea I can try, or knows a solution to this niggling problem?

Thanks

Will

***JoeP517*** · 2011-06-16 15:29

Have you tried

regsvr32 /i shdocvw.dll

Joe

**Oskarius38** · 2011-06-23 11:12

Normally you do not have to use those prefix! Just write the sites name in the address field and then press Enter!

Oskarius38

**BruceR** · 2011-06-23 13:46

Originally Posted by Oskarius38

Normally you do not have to use those prefix! Just write the sites name in the address field and then press Enter!

Oskarius38

The problem is clicking links, not typing addresses.

Bruce

**Lavin** · 2011-06-23 14:39

Originally Posted by JoeP517

Have you tried

regsvr32 /i shdocvw.dll

Joe

Or this:

Click Start, and then click Run.
Type regsvr32 urlmon.dll, and then click OK.

**drwattson** · 2012-03-02 20:59

at the top of the list of filetypes are protocols

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