windows 8 mail app will not open (URL) links in metro ie10

Have you gone into Default Programs and set IE to all its defaults?

Alex,

 

Yes, I've tried that. I have uninstalled and reinstalled the mail.app suite, as well as Internet Explorer and Google Chrome.

 

I would bet that its a registry setting somewhere, I just haven't found it yet.

 

--Mark

 

 

 

Hi Mark,

 

Sorry for the delayed response. Have you been able to fix the issue?

 

If not, let us see if the following helps.

 

Please run the App troubleshooter. This should diagnose and try to repair if there is something wrong with the app. Here`s the link to access it.

 

Do let us know the results.

The only difference between the two machines is one that still functions has the 32bit version of Win8Pro and does NOT have a 3rd party browser installed (Chrome or Firefox). My 64Bit version is causing me the issue. I believe the installing the another Browser somehow confuses or corrupts the registry.

Is IE still your default browser or not?  I think it has to be in order to use Modern UI Fullscreen IE.  So does that work?   If not you should make sure that IE is registered as your default browser (e.g. using Default Programs, as the administrator).  You do not have to uninstall the other browser(s) to make IE your default browser.  I wouldn't be surprised though, if installing other browsers would change this, e.g. perhaps they have an option which you should uncheck before allowing the install?

 

If IE is not your default browser I don't think you should expect IE to open links from anywhere unless you did something to cause that to happen explicitly, such as dragging a link to a Desktop IE or copying a link to ClipBoard and then doing a right-click  Go...   Or perhaps your mail app could provide a right-click or Shift-right-click options list which would let you direct the link away from a default?   Etc.

 

 
HTH

 
Robert Aldwinckle
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I just had this problem. I had disable the windows firewall service because I use a 3rd party firewall. You might what to check if Windows firewall service is running. Press Win+X select computer management ---> services. Windows firewall service is require for installing some windows store apps. Apparently it's also needed for win8 apps to update.

I had this problem for several days and tried all the suggestions in all the forums I could find and none of them worked. The only thing that did work, after I reformatted my drive and reinstalled windows 8, I started the mail app and it was working. So I started reinstalling all my software and then it stopped working again. I did a system restore and it was working again. So I started to install one thing check the mail app...still working...tried another...still good. It was then when I installed object dock and tried the mail app that it stopped working again.. Needless to say I uninstalled Object Dock and the mail app started working again. So If you have this problem then uninstall object dock and download rocketdock instead. Object Dock was the problem the whole damn time...days and days of research and having to reinstall the OS and all that damn software and 25 large games. BASTARDS!!! I want my time back dammit.