Help!

I asked Chris for help and he told me to put it up on the blog.

A problem recently occurred on my computer. When I click on a link in an email I get the following box:

“This operation has been canceled due to restrictions in effect on this computer. Please contact your system administrator.”

The only way I’ve been able to get around the problem is to forward the email to my hotmail account we’re I can open the link.

Thank you in advance for any help you can provide me.

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Permalink Reply by Greg De Santis on March 24, 2009 at 3:24pm: Your problem most likely is not an Outlook error, it is probably a corrupted registry link in Internet Explorer 7 or 6.
Getting a restriction error when clicking on a hyperlink in an e-mail; this seems to be a very common question in the Microsoft public newsgroups, and I have found these fixes to help the problem:
http://www.slipstick.com/problems/link_restrict.htm
For the Internet Explorer 7 fix:
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;Q310049; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by NORMAN WILCOX on March 24, 2009 at 7:03pm: Greg,

Thanks for your help. Noticed your photo is the USS USS Honolulu. I was on the USS Seahorse (SSN 669). I was onboard from 1968 to 1971. I reported aboard two weeks before it was lanuched (Groton, CT) and the boats first crew member.

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Permalink Reply by Greg De Santis on March 24, 2009 at 7:30pm: Thanks for noticing the picture of my boat. I have a few more pictures on my profile if you want to take a look. It's the USS Honolulu SSN-718 out of Pearl Harbor. I served on board her for about 5 years from 1988 - 1993. I also took part in the Cold War, and in Desert Storm. As far as the Cold War went, no Golfs, Hotels, Yankees, Deltas or Typhoons could get a shot off while we were on station. And how about those noisy Victor I, II and III's; or the Oscar-I and Oscar-II's. Or even the noisest of all submarines the Echo I and II class. I served as a submarine sonar technician for 8 years from 1985 - 1993.
I also spent some time in Groton, CT, but only for Sub School.
It's good to meet other ex-service members here at Geeks.; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by JT on March 24, 2009 at 7:57pm: Greg,

Could this Registry Link error also cause problems with installing the latest Adobe Flash? I wonder. I have, for the longest time, not been able to install the latest Adobe Flash so if I ever need to view things in Flash i use FireFox because it does work there.

BTW, I am a Navy Vet also. I was not in Submarines. I was at first on a Ammunition Ship and then with Operation Deep Freeze with the Sea Bees and then finally at Naval Station Philadelphia when Ford pardoned all of the Viet Nam Deserters. I had to do a lot of the processing for them I was a PN2.; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by Greg De Santis on March 24, 2009 at 8:25pm: I know before you even begin you have to verify that any hint of the flash player is uninstalled.
Download and run the Adobe Flash Player uninstaller:
http://kb.adobe.com/selfservice/viewContent.do?externalId=tn_14157

Afterward, right-click on the Internet Explorer icon located on
your Taskbar and select: Run as administrator. Then visit:
http://www.adobe.com/shockwave/download/download.cgi?P1_Prod_Versio... which should be Adobe Flash Player version 10.0.22.87
Windows, Internet Explorer and click on "Install Now".

Or after uninstalling, you can download it directly from here:
http://filehippo.com/download_flashplayer_ie/
And make sure that all Internet Explorer windows are closed out before you install it.
So far I have this version working on IE 6, 7 and the newly released version of 8.; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by Young Werther on March 24, 2009 at 5:21pm: Probably a security thing.
Google the error message and download the fix from Microsoft.; ▶ Reply to This