RE: MSN Today - No Links Work unless IE is already open.

This appears to be another Micrsoft screwup. This has happened to me, first
on my desktop and then on my laptop. When I queried microsoft I get the
three monkey reply: Do no Evil, see no Evil, speak no Evil. I have
resigned myself to the fact that I cannot access hotmail from messenger.

"CeeLee" wrote:

> I am using MSN Messenger 7.0 and have my settings configured to launch MSN
> Today on startup. I am using IE 6 with 128 encryption. I can access my
> HotMail account from MSN Today, but NONE of the links are 'active'. Clicking
> on any of the article links brings me to the standard 'The Page Cannot be
> Displayed' error page in IE UNLESS I already have an instance of IE open. If
> I have an IE window already open, clicking on a link in MSN Today launches a
> new IE window.
>
> If I copy and paste the link (i.e.
> http://g.msn.com/MT/1?http://www.msn...20riskier&CE=1)
> into FireFox or Netscape, the pages will load, but with IE, no luck.
>
> This issue has been occuring for about three weeks. I have not installed
> any new software or made any configuration changes in that time.
>
> I have run virus and security scans with Norton System Works 2005 and no
> problems were found.
>
> Is this just a hiccup with IE and Messenger?