Hi,
try to do a system restore to solve your problem.
or you may uninstall the messenger 2009 and then try to install a previous version.

O Select My Computer from the Start menu.
o Choose Tools | Folder Options... from the menu.
o Go to the File Types tab.
o Highlight (NONE) URL:HyperText Transfer Protocol.
o Click Advanced.
o Highlight open.
o Click Remove.
o Click Yes.
o Click OK.
o Now click Close.
o Start Internet Explorer.
* If you use a browser other than Internet Explorer, start it and make sure it is the new default.

When i try and tools / folder options i cant see that option anywhere? I click start, then computer, but cant find the tools tab?

Any suggestions?

Thank u very very much mate u are a star ive trying to do this all day and nite and even intalled the old version of msn just cos of this lol thanks again

Thanks Stevo. The first bit sorted my problem out too

In Vista, we don't have a file types tab in folder options, you have to do it through Default Programs under Control Panel. But the problem there is, I can't remove a file type, only change what program opens it, and IE is already the default for the URL:HTTP. But my IE was not set as the default browser and somehow was not set to detect that it was not the default browser.

After making it the default browser through IE, it still didn't work :(

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Thank you, i've looking how to do that, thank u you save alot time,
also big thanks to Steve

Explanation :)

to open your inbox directly from the messenger, the messenger is sending a message to your browser ( sorry if i make some english mistakes) this message is agreed upon by the browser and messenger, for sure the message wants to target the internet exploere which is the only software can understand it .and according to it go to the suitable page, if firefox wishes to help in this function , mozilla needs microsoft's support i think, some people said opera browser do it, this makes the one wonder if microsoft supported opera browser or that the messaging between the messenger and internet explorer is simple to analyze and not encoded, if not encoded maybe we can see firefox works one say, the solution of making IE the defualt browser is the right solution, i want to add, if you deleted firefox , the IE will be the dafault browser automaticaly, but IE still doesnt serve you until you go and make it the default as what Stevo said, is it a bug in IE?

THANKYOU!! Worked like a dream..took all of a minute to fix a promblem buggung me for weeks. Thank you again.

Ok folks i think i figured it out. And you can thank Micro$hit for this one! I don't mean to write a book over it, but if you understand what its all about then this problem might apply to you. ( Many thanks for nothing to Microshit for all there so-called support). Here we go... I had downloaded and intalled IE8,as so many have been forced into this by Micro$hit, and as many of us found out...its another fine piece of crap! Now, Micro$hit tells everyone "your shit out of luck, you downloaded it and F%ck you!". Right? WRONG! Here's what they don't want to know! First you'll have to uninstall Sevice Pack 3, SP3 locks your IE that can't be removed. Once you've deleted SP3 you can now remove IE8. Now i did all this, and it does take time so be patient. After I did this and downloaded SP3 i was able to keep IE7! Buuuuuuuuuut!, when it came time to open email in my inbox, it wont work?! So the only way to open is with IE8 orrrrrrrrrrrr! Google Chrome! So obviously Micro$hit has set things up that your forced to use IE8, but not if you use Google Chrome. If you need help deleting SP3, go to http://www.tech-recipes.com/rx/2817/how_to_uninstall_ie8/ and use Graywolf_ANF details on how-to. If you find this works for you please leave a thank you to him as he seems to know what to do (not like Microshit will!). Remember, once you have deleted SP3, then you delete IE8,then you can update SP3,add Google chrome, and thats it! hope this works for anyone, leave a post and lets see how we do! JLS