Outlook keeps prompting me to select Internet Explorer to open links

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If you keep getting prompted by Windows 10 to select Internet Explorer when you click a link in Outlook, fifty-fifty when you had before specified Internet Explorer, then this postal service may help you set the problem. When y'all click on any web link in Microsoft Outlook, it asks you How do you lot want to open this, and offers you lot various options including Net Explorer.

This issue is known to occur if you lot are using Outlook 2022 or Outlook 2007 on Windows ten and have set Cyberspace Explorer 11 set as the default browser. Follow this tutorial to resolve the issue in one case and for all.

Outlook keeps prompting me to select Internet Explorer

Open Registry Editor, navigate to the post-obit registry key and click on it.

HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\htmlfile\shell\opennew\command

You should encounter opennew and command registry keys. If they don't be, click the following registry subkey:

HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\htmlfile\shell

Here create a new Fundamental and name information technology opennew.

Now click the opennew registry primal and create a new sub-central and name information technology command.

Next, under opennew, locate and so double-click the following value:

(Default)

In the Value information box, enter the following to take the hyperlinked folio open on a new tab:

cmd /c start %1

If y'all want to open the link in a new windows, type the post-obit instead:

"C:\Program Files\Cyberspace Explorer\IEXPLORE.EXE" %1

Go out Registry Editor.

If you do not want to do all this, simply download and utilise the automated Fix It from KB3094186.

Anand Khanse is the Admin of TheWindowsClub.com, a 10-year Microsoft MVP (2006-16) & a Windows Insider MVP. Please read the unabridged post & the comments beginning, create a System Restore Indicate earlier making any changes to your system & be careful about any 3rd-party offers while installing freeware.