Hi,
This problem is caused when Yahoo! messenger sees no default browser selected for URL file types.
You have to go to Control panel and go to
folder options
Click the
Filetypes tab
and make sure urls and http commands are handled by a browser like pic below...which i have Firefox 2.0 b1 handling them.
If you see no icons selected to left of the following..
(none) URL:File Transfer Protocol
(none) URL:Gopher Protocol
(none) URL:HyperText Transfer Protocol
(none) URL:HyperText Transfer Protocol with Privacy
This means your links won't open as your filetypes for these actions do not know how to open the said protocols.
Highlight each one and go to
Adavanced and press it..
you should now see..
Highlight
Open and click
Edit
And you will get the open http box as this example shows how the following is set.
(none) URL:HyperText Transfer Protocol
You will see this..
Thus this is working properly as i have Firefox set to open Http links.
So you will have to Click browse if you dont have an application set fot it and pick
iexplore.exe or
firefox.exe from your Program files folder.
And set the file for handling all the four mentioned above and reboot and your links should open again.
Hope this helps.
Dermot