Solved Opening link problem in Outlook 2007

[billberry12]

When I click on a link in an email message to open it, Outlook takes me to my homepage in Internet Explorer. This is a new problem, since it worked before. Any ideas on how to reset it correctly.

 

[Irene]

Can you do a system restore to a point before the problem occurred?
System Restore - Windows 7 features - Microsoft Windows
What is System Restore?

 

[billberry12]

I did a system restore back to a week ago today. That corrected it. I don't know what I did in the past week, except some updates since SP1 was installed. Maybe thoses updates messed it up.

 

[mlomheim]

Internet Explorer Home Page Opens When You Click a Link That Is Pasted into an E-mail Message

 

[mlomheim]

The link above could be the issue Internet Explorer Home Page Opens When You Click a Link That Is Pasted into an E-mail Message

 

[billberry12]

Windows 7 Forums - View Profile: mlomheim doesn't address how to do it in Windowsa 7. I did narrow down the culprit to a Microsoft Office Junk Filter update I did yesterday. That caused the problem, and removing the update solved the problem. I am not sure what the update was suppose to do, but it did cause this problem.

 

[billberry12]

This is the update that caused the problem.

Update for Microsoft Office Outlook 2007 Junk Email Filter (KB2508979)
Download size: 3.2 MB
You may need to restart your computer for this update to take effect.
Update type: Important
This update provides the Junk E-mail Filter in Microsoft Office Outlook 2007 with a more current definition of which e-mail messages should be considered junk e-mail.
More information:
Description of the Office Outlook 2007 Junk Email Filter update: March 8, 2011
Help and Support:
Microsoft Support