Mailto spawns multiple IE sessions

[Gus]

When following a mailto hyperlink from any Office XP
application, instead of opening a new message in Outlook
(default Email client) it spawns about 40 Internet
Explorer sessions, most of them with an empty URL and a
few with the mailto link in the address bar.
Any ideas?
I'm in Windows 2000-SP2, Office XP-SP2, IE 6.0-SP1 (other
boxes are in IE 5.5-SP2)
Thanks for your help!

 

[Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]]

Have you scanned your system lately with an up-to-date virus scanner? What
is the program set to open Mailto: links? You might want to check your file
associations.

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Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]

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| When following a mailto hyperlink from any Office XP
| application, instead of opening a new message in Outlook
| (default Email client) it spawns about 40 Internet
| Explorer sessions, most of them with an empty URL and a
| few with the mailto link in the address bar.
| Any ideas?
| I'm in Windows 2000-SP2, Office XP-SP2, IE 6.0-SP1 (other
| boxes are in IE 5.5-SP2)
| Thanks for your help!