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Outlook 2007 not allowing hyperlinks HELP !!!

Aug 25, 2010 6:45AM PDT

Am running window 7 Home Permium 64 bit / outlook 2007 SP2 on a Sony Vaio VPCCW21FX
As well as Spyware Doctor

In received e-mail the Outlook will not allow me to follow any links embedded in the email messages

I get a box with the following message (Microsoft Office Outlook Box)

"This Operation has been canceled to do restrictions in effect on this computer. Please contact your system administrator"

This just started and I cannot find away to shut this off and it is really really irritating! Can anyone help me??

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Re: hyperlinks in Outlook
Aug 25, 2010 6:51AM PDT

Let's assume this is a business environment. Most instances of Outlook run in businesses. Outlook isn't part of the Home and Student versions of MS Office.

Then, as suggested, you contact the system administrator. It's his job, after all, to fix this.

By the way, what is your default browser (IE, Firefox, Chrome, Opera, Safari)?

Kees

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home application / am the administrator on this system
Aug 25, 2010 7:05AM PDT

this a home application of outlook 2007 and IE is my default browser

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And when you found your IT-guy ...
Aug 25, 2010 6:55AM PDT
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links
Aug 25, 2010 7:07AM PDT

I have already read both of those before I tried this forum, but thank you

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Re: links
Aug 25, 2010 7:28AM PDT

And none of the suggestions in either link worked? Then you have a quite unique problem.

Luckily, if it only happens since a few weeks, you can try System Restore back to when in worked. Then you don't need to research and remedy the cause. It's kind of a brute force method.
Then immediately make a new system restore point to fall back to if necessary and gradually redo what you did with installing patches and new programs.

If the system restore doesn't help:
1. Go to a repair shop to have it fixed.
2. Start all over with a clean install of the OS. That's guaranteed to work and it's free (but it's some work).

Kees