"Send a Link" and "Send Page" not working

I have Windows XP and recently (no exact date or any known changes or updates
I may have made) have been unable to use the mail (send a page or link)
option on the IE toolbar. Also I cannot, on either My Documents or My
Pictures choose one and then right click to 'send to mail recipient' On each
of these occasions,which would have opened my hotmail new message option,
WHEN CLICKING ON "SEND PAGE" OR "SEND A LINK", HOTMAIL NO LONGER WORKS -
"SEND PAGE" RESULTS IN THE FOLLOWING URL AND PAGE:

http://www.hotmail.com/secure/start?...3A%5E 4068%3B

Server Error in '/' Application.
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------

The resource cannot be found.
Description: HTTP 404. The resource you are looking for (or one of its
dependencies) could have been removed, had its name changed, or is
temporarily unavailable. Please review the following URL and make sure that
it is spelled correctly.

Requested Url: /secure/start




WHEN CLICKING ON "SEND A LINK" RESULTS IN THE FOLLOWING URL AND PAGE:

http://www.hotmail.com/secure/start?...%3A%3A%5E94%3B

Server Error in '/' Application.
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------

The resource cannot be found.
Description: HTTP 404. The resource you are looking for (or one of its
dependencies) could have been removed, had its name changed, or is
temporarily unavailable. Please review the following URL and make sure that
it is spelled correctly.

Requested Url: /secure/start

Hi Msscomm,

Have you tried changing this line:
http://www.hotmail.com/secure/start?........
to
http://www.hotmail.msn.com/secure/start?.....

--
Ramesh, Microsoft MVP
Windows XP Shell/User
http://windowsxp.mvps.org


"Msscomm" wrote in message
...
I have Windows XP and recently (no exact date or any known changes or
updates
I may have made) have been unable to use the mail (send a page or link)
option on the IE toolbar. Also I cannot, on either My Documents or My
Pictures choose one and then right click to 'send to mail recipient' On
each
of these occasions,which would have opened my hotmail new message option,
WHEN CLICKING ON "SEND PAGE" OR "SEND A LINK", HOTMAIL NO LONGER WORKS -
"SEND PAGE" RESULTS IN THE FOLLOWING URL AND PAGE:

http://www.hotmail.com/secure/start?...3A%5E 4068%3B

Server Error in '/' Application.
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------

The resource cannot be found.
Description: HTTP 404. The resource you are looking for (or one of its
dependencies) could have been removed, had its name changed, or is
temporarily unavailable. Please review the following URL and make sure
that
it is spelled correctly.

Requested Url: /secure/start




WHEN CLICKING ON "SEND A LINK" RESULTS IN THE FOLLOWING URL AND PAGE:

http://www.hotmail.com/secure/start?...%3A%3A%5E94%3B

Server Error in '/' Application.
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------

The resource cannot be found.
Description: HTTP 404. The resource you are looking for (or one of its
dependencies) could have been removed, had its name changed, or is
temporarily unavailable. Please review the following URL and make sure
that
it is spelled correctly.

Requested Url: /secure/start

Ramesh

Thanks for the reply - where should this new address be inputted ?

left off on the initial note was this attempted workaround:
________________________________________
The address bar shows this entry:



Changing the above to the following line helps:



To make this permanent, try these steps:

Open Regedit and navigate to:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Clients\Mail\Hotmail

Create a new REG_SZ value named posturl

Double-click posturl and set its value exactly as given below:

http://hotmail.msn.com/secure/start

The mailto: links should work fine now.
______________________________________
Tried this and got nowhere - tried reregistering w/ regsvr32 sendmail.dll

So where should I alter the hotmail.com to hotmail.msn.com ? Was this an
effect of new security settings in SP2 ?

TIA

Mike

Hi Msscomm,

You need to change the text in the address bar. BTW, this is not a SP2
issue, but a temporary problem with MSN/Hotmail pages.

Have you tried creating the posturl REG_SZ value as said in my page?

--
Ramesh, Microsoft MVP
Windows XP Shell/User
http://windowsxp.mvps.org


"Msscomm" wrote in message
...
Ramesh

Thanks for the reply - where should this new address be inputted ?

left off on the initial note was this attempted workaround:
________________________________________
The address bar shows this entry:



Changing the above to the following line helps:



To make this permanent, try these steps:

Open Regedit and navigate to:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Clients\Mail\Hotmail

Create a new REG_SZ value named posturl

Double-click posturl and set its value exactly as given below:

http://hotmail.msn.com/secure/start

The mailto: links should work fine now.
______________________________________
Tried this and got nowhere - tried reregistering w/ regsvr32 sendmail.dll

So where should I alter the hotmail.com to hotmail.msn.com ? Was this an
effect of new security settings in SP2 ?

TIA

Mike

Ramesh - tried creating the Reg value - nogo - actually appears to have been
fixed w/your other suggestion of re-registering with regsvr32 sendmail.dll -
all appears to be working now - Thanks.
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"Ramesh, MS-MVP" wrote:

Hi Msscomm,

You need to change the text in the address bar. BTW, this is not a SP2
issue, but a temporary problem with MSN/Hotmail pages.

Have you tried creating the posturl REG_SZ value as said in my page?

--
Ramesh, Microsoft MVP
Windows XP Shell/User
http://windowsxp.mvps.org


"Msscomm" wrote in message
...
Ramesh

Thanks for the reply - where should this new address be inputted ?

left off on the initial note was this attempted workaround:
________________________________________
The address bar shows this entry:



Changing the above to the following line helps:



To make this permanent, try these steps:

Open Regedit and navigate to:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Clients\Mail\Hotmail

Create a new REG_SZ value named posturl

Double-click posturl and set its value exactly as given below:

http://hotmail.msn.com/secure/start

The mailto: links should work fine now.
______________________________________
Tried this and got nowhere - tried reregistering w/ regsvr32 sendmail.dll

So where should I alter the hotmail.com to hotmail.msn.com ? Was this an
effect of new security settings in SP2 ?

TIA

Mike

Thanks for the feedback Msscomm.

--
Ramesh, Microsoft MVP
Windows XP Shell/User
http://windowsxp.mvps.org


"Msscomm" wrote in message
...
Ramesh - tried creating the Reg value - nogo - actually appears to have
been
fixed w/your other suggestion of re-registering with regsvr32
sendmail.dll -
all appears to be working now - Thanks.
-----------------------------------------------
"Ramesh, MS-MVP" wrote:

Hi Msscomm,

You need to change the text in the address bar. BTW, this is not a SP2
issue, but a temporary problem with MSN/Hotmail pages.

Have you tried creating the posturl REG_SZ value as said in my page?

--
Ramesh, Microsoft MVP
Windows XP Shell/User
http://windowsxp.mvps.org