Forgive my asking here but I've tried proper Windows techy groups with no success and I know that there are some seriously clued up people around this group.
I run Windows XP which is nice and stable on my machine but about 25% of the time, if I click on a link in an email or newsgroup message, instead of opening the link in my default browser (Firefox), IE opens up with an "Address not valid" header and "res://ieframe.dll/syntax.htm#" in the address bar.
I've been completely unable to work out why it does it sometimes and not others. It doesn't seem to make any difference if Firefox is open already or not. The links concerned are plain text links in Outlook Express.
Tempting to uninstall IE but a) I'm not sure if that is possible and b) there are some sites that I visit that just don't work right in other browsers.
I've been down the road of re-registering dlls (whatever that is) but it's never made any difference.
Any suggestions?
Tim