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Windows cannot find PROGRAM …needed for opening files of type URL

  • I am getting a message ” Windows cannot find PROGRAM …needed for opening files of type ‘URL: HyperText Transfer Protocol’ I use Windows 98 SE, IE5 and Outlook Express. This has happened before when fiddling with my internet connection (not recently). Can you help?

    This problem is probably occurring because you uninstalled another web browser which was associated with HTML documents (eg. Netscape). The problem arises when the association still exists but the program, in this case a web browser, has been uninstalled. You will find a full explanation of how to reinstate the file association with Internet Explorer (which I am assuming is your current web browser) by reference to the Microsoft Knowledge Base article at: support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/q191/2/19.asp.

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