Hyperlinks not working sometimes in IE favorites

[coldplay]

Hi , everybody:

I am using IE7 with all the patches from MS auto-updated. There is a problem been bugging me for a while. That is some hyperlinks(websites) in my favorites stop working for no reason, I click on it and nothing happens. The site has not changed its address and my system is clean. at first, I thought its some weird cache so I used CCcleaner to clean everything it can. But the problem is still there. I still have to type the address again then add it to favorites to replace the old-infunctional-link. And the new link will work for a while then stop working.

I have searched on google and found out its a quite common problem but I have not found a good solution to it. So I really could use some help here. thank you in advance

coldplay

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just checked with IE without add-ons, some favorites are still broken.

[coldplay]

reinstalling IE7 doesn't help :(

[ronjor]

Look through this list and see if you spot anything that could be related to your problem.

http://www.ie-vista.com/known_issues.html#tsie

[coldplay]

ty for the link.
problem has not been solved :(

[ronjor]

A couple of things you could try.

http://www.microsoft.com/windows/products/winfamily/ie/iefaq.mspx


{QUOTE-> My favorite websites don't load correctly, or don't seem to work at all in Internet Explorer 7. What should I do?

If you encounter a site which does not recognize Internet Explorer 7, a new tool known as the User Agent String Utility has been created to help you work around the problem. The utility comes in the form of a small executable that opens an Internet Explorer 7 instance that emulates Internet Explorer 6 by sending the Internet Explorer 6 user agent string. It also provides a mechanism for you to report problem web sites to Microsoft so that we can follow up with the affected site owners. Download the tool. <-QUOTE}

This is an older tip and may not apply.

http://www.taznetworks.com/rss/2005/04/internet-explorer-favorites-or.html

[MikeBCda]

I ran into something similar a while back, before I'd replaced IE-6 with -7 (I use Firefox as default, by the way, so no problems most of the time).

When I looked at Properties of the Favorites, each one pointed to its own entry in the favorites folder, rather than to a URL. So I wasn't going "out there" as intended.

Never did find a solution -- TweakUI has repairs for many special folders, but Favorites isn't one of them. Installing IE-7 did clear up the problem, suggesting that the Favorites folder had become corrupted and was replaced with a clean version in the new installation.

No ideas about suggestions if you've already got IE-7, sorry.

(Edit) As a P.S. - When I tried exporting Firefox bookmarks and did not import them into IE but instead used IE to open that HTML file, the resulting links worked just fine.

[coldplay]

{QUOTE-> A couple of things you could try.

http://www.microsoft.com/windows/products/winfamily/ie/iefaq.mspx

This is an older tip and may not apply.

http://www.taznetworks.com/rss/2005/04/internet-explorer-favorites-or.html <-QUOTE}


IE FAQ doesn't help and I have searched the older tip. I have same problem those guys had in taznetworks.com. His tip is good but the problem comes back after some clicks. :-\ :-\ :-\

would you guys say this weird thing has something to do with CCleaner ?

BTW, most of those unstable links are forum links which means I keep cookies on these forums. I put these forum site in to CCleaner's keep cookie option.

[coldplay]

{QUOTE-> I ran into something similar a while back, before I'd replaced IE-6 with -7 (I use Firefox as default, by the way, so no problems most of the time).

When I looked at Properties of the Favorites, each one pointed to its own entry in the favorites folder, rather than to a URL. So I wasn't going "out there" as intended.

Never did find a solution -- TweakUI has repairs for many special folders, but Favorites isn't one of them. Installing IE-7 did clear up the problem, suggesting that the Favorites folder had become corrupted and was replaced with a clean version in the new installation.

No ideas about suggestions if you've already got IE-7, sorry.

(Edit) As a P.S. - When I tried exporting Firefox bookmarks and did not import them into IE but instead used IE to open that HTML file, the resulting links worked just fine. <-QUOTE}

Yes, I looked its folder , those "not working links" are corrupted files. I dont know what caused it.

[coldplay]

driving me crazy, I am calling MS support, see you guys in a couple of years.

[coldplay]

I used notepad to read the file, found some little more symptoms:

a working fav shortcut is like this:

{QUOTE-> [DEFAULT]
BASEURL=http://www.wilderssecurity.com/
[InternetShortcut]
URL=http://www.wilderssecurity.com/
IDList=
IconFile=http://www.wilderssecurity.com/favicon.ico
IconIndex=1
[{000214A0-0000-0000-C000-000000000046}]
Prop3=19,2 <-QUOTE}

a non-working fav shortcut is like this :

{QUOTE-> [DEFAULT]
BASEURL=http://www.wilderssecurity.com/
[InternetShortcut]
URL=http://www.wilderssecurity.com/
IDList=
IconFile=http://www.wilderssecurity.com/favicon.ico
IconIndex=1 <-QUOTE}


Hell, who the heck removed the regstry info. in my url shortcuts file??

1 more thing, I have tried regsvr32 thing, I get error message at registrying mshtml.dll. It is something about

{QUOTE-> mshtml.dll was loaded but dllregisterserver entry point was not found <-QUOTE}

I have tried pick up this file from my winxp CD but it still can not be fixed

[ronjor]

Another discussion here. (http://groups.google.com/group/microsoft.public.internetexplorer.general/browse_thread/thread/8670fa633b2e655b/a0933bbf1cbad07%23a0933bbf1cbad07) It appears a lot of people are having issues with hyperlinks and IE7.

[coldplay]

Thank you for the reply:

I have reinstalled IE7 acouple times for this problem . In fact, this is a newly installed system just made yesterday and installed IE7 by using a standalone install pack downloaded from Microsoft.com.

Not all of my url.shortcuts not working. only corrupted files not working and almost all of those files are websites that store your password . for instance, forums and mail service providers.

[ronjor]

I would try deleting the old shortcuts that aren't working and see if they can be rebuilt in IE7.

[coldplay]

{QUOTE-> I would try deleting the old shortcuts that aren't working and see if they can be rebuilt in IE7. <-QUOTE}

thank you, let me try that to see what happens

do I need to go to registry and delete related stuff ? like a blog suggested in one of links you gave me ?

[ronjor]

I would stay out of the registry for now and see how it goes.

[GlobalForce]

Howdy People!

Possibly worth mentioning is a snapfiles comment made by Terry P. (Oct 27, 2006) in reference to CCleaner.
Whether it carries over to the latest release I couldn't say.

http://www.snapfiles.com/opinions/ie7/ie7.html

Further investigation would tell you he's not the only one with such a claim.


Steve

[coldplay]

{QUOTE-> Howdy People!

Possibly worth mentioning is a snapfiles comment made by Terry P. (Oct 27, 2006) in reference to CCleaner.
Whether it carries over to the latest release I couldn't say.

http://www.snapfiles.com/opinions/ie7/ie7.html

Further investigation would tell you he's not the only one with such a claim.


Steve <-QUOTE}

thank you for the link, its hard to know now, I uninstalled CCleaner, I will check with using CCleaner later.

[coldplay]

I have been doing some tests myself. It seems that most likely CClean 1.39 caused problem. I have been using CClean for quite a while , never had problem until 1.39 version. Now I have uninstalled CClean. I will give it a few days so see if this weird issue still exists.

update: some ppl on ccleaner forum saying 1.39.502 is loaded with bugs.