Restrictions in effect on this computer???

[Michael Moser]

Since this morning, whenever I click on a URL contained in an email I
get a popup stating:

"This operation has been cancelled due to restrictions in effect on this
computer. Please contact your system administrator."

What is THAT supposed to mean? Since I am my own sys admin (and I am not
aware of having changed anything in that respect lately): what could
cause this stupidity and how to I get back the old, usual behavior?

Michael

 

[Diane Poremsky [MVP]]

See http://www.slipstick.com/problems/link_restrict.htm

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[Michael Moser]

Michael Moser, you wrote on Wed, 13 Aug 2008 11:33:04 +0200:


http://tinyurl.com/57wojf

Thanks! The very first possibilit - to just go to IE's setings and
hitting "make IE my default browser" brought things back to normal.

I don't know, why IE should suddenly NOT be my default browser but maybe
it was just one of the other settings that was reset with via this
button.

Thanks again and regards,
Michael

 

[Diane Poremsky [MVP]]

It's definitely not an outlook problem - its an OS/IE problem, you'll need
to check in the IE forums for other ideas.

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[Maria O]

trying to follow directions from slipstick.com - after I copy a notepad with
corrected registry key to desktop, it says to click on ".reg" . OK, 'cept I
can't find it!

It's definitely not an outlook problem - its an OS/IE problem, you'll need
to check in the IE forums for other ideas.

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I've had the same problem, as well. Looking at Google and other
search engine results, *_many_* people are having this problem.

I've reset IE's settings; reset a registry setting, as listed in an MS
KB article; and more.

This happened after some updates from MS. I bet it's all tied to a
patch that was released too early without enough testing.
Unfortunately, I don't have the time right now to do a clean install
of the OS and everything else. My backup image of a clean install
system needs updating, but still, even using that image, it would
still take more time than I have to reinstall all my software that
isn't in that image, and move all the files back that live on the C
drive. That's why most people who are serious maintaining the
computers set aside time to do clean installs, etc. No one should
have to do that to fix a botched patch.

Any other ideas in the meantime?

_____________
Dave J. (Scoop0901)
Philadelphia, PA (USA)
http://blog.scoop0901.net/

 

[Gordon]

trying to follow directions from slipstick.com - after I copy a notepad
with
corrected registry key to desktop, it says to click on ".reg" . OK, 'cept
I
can't find it!

You need to save the notepad file you have created/copied/downloaded as a
file with a reg extension.

 

[Maria O]

Thanks - did that. Rewrote the new key to the registry and it didn't fix the
problem. As long as I go through Outlook- this happens. When I log into my
email from the web - no problem.

So, I guess the problem is with Outlook?

 

[Gordon]

Thanks - did that. Rewrote the new key to the registry and it didn't fix
the
problem. As long as I go through Outlook- this happens. When I log into
my
email from the web - no problem.

You did log off from your Windows User and back on again?