After disabling IE 10 I get a warning message if opening a hyperlink. This appears in all Office 2013 applications. " Your organization's policies are preventing us to complete this action for you." I want to open hyperlinks with another browser. I cannot find a policy that is configured to prevent opening a hyperlink. My browser is set as default and the file associations are correct. Does anyone know what is wrong?
*Bump* After more than ten days waiting for some help on this issue, there is not a single reply. Update on this matter. Found this: htt p://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/windows_7-performance/your-organizations-policies-are-preventing-us/94986167-d289-477b-ba57-238472079b32?msgId=43301069-e1e8-49e0-8212-91d9656832ed But I have IE disabled. And found this: htt p://support.microsoft.com/kb/310049 Also fixes IE, which I have disabled. Third and last I found was this: htt p://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/office/forum/office_home-outlook/your-organizations-policies-are-preventing-us-from/0ce46a96-7132-4ec4-9722-d8da0fc3e957?msgId=eb23356c-4ee4-4cb5-8f1a-de0e1450a2ed Which also fixes IE. I have disabled IE because I don't want to use it, but I want to be able to open hyperlinks with the browser of my choice. Any help would be appreciated.
I found this funny behavior also on one of my machines. When I receive a document through outook 2013 containing a hyperlink, I get the same error message. I have set IE10 as default browser (not disabled) but use Firefox for my daily browsing. Other machines with the same W8 enterprise and same office installation from Technet with legal key work with no such issue. I googled but didn't find a solution yet. Fixit tool only works for 2010 but not for 2013 atm.
Thanks PaulDesmond for your reply. I really start to think that IE rules, even when you have another browser installed. If this is the case, the European rules for browser choice is a joke. You can choose a browser but not able to use it completely.
This is not entirely true as I mentioned my finding only on one machine but otheres with exactly same programs like Firefox do not show the error. It must be somewhere in the registry but I didn't find it yet
Run Process Monitor from Sysinternals and track winword.exe or whatever office thing is giving you this error, use a little bit of brain and try to find the Keys that make sense and hopefully also find out why the call ends as fault Open your winword.exe (or whatever you have the problem at), open a document that has a url in it, now go back to Process Monitor, add Winword.exe to Filters as Process Name (CTRL+L) or use that Crosshair thing on the toolbar and target word with it, wipe the current listing clean (CTRL+X), switch over to winword.exe click the link.. back to process explorer and stop tracking (CTRL+E), explore.. ;P you might also want to upload the LOG by saving it with CTRL+S so i can also have a look at it Also might want to look at the Registry first and see if something did not get set correctly. (You can also just Export the 2 keys and upload or copy/paste into a codebox here Code: HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Classes\http HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Classes\https HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Windows\Shell\RegisteredApplications\UrlAssociations\http\OpenWithProgids (might not exist, if it does delete) That's obviously no given solution, but trying to find why/what its causing it.
I have to say this is very strange. I must say this doesn't affect Office 2010 at all because I have IE 10 disabled and all is well. I guess errors and workarounds like this happens when software like Office 2013 and Windows 8 are rushed to RTM status when there are plenty of "beta style" bug in them.
My problem first showed-up in O2010 in W7. After a clean install of W7 one of my favorite websites needed Adobe Flash installed for the "live cams", so I installed it. No choice to not install the Chrome TB or Chrome browser! so they both got installed after which I promptly uninstalled them in W7 CP/ uninstall programs. That's when my Word> hyperlink problem started. I googled & found several people saying the only way to fix it was installing Google Chrome again!!! lol I kept drilling down & found the MS Support page & used the Fix-it there & that cured the problem.
This week did a clean install of Windows 8 with Office 2013 and disabled IE because I use Pale Moon. Opening a link in Outlook 2013 give me the nag screen once again, " Your organization's policies are preventing us to complete this action for you." The solution however is very simple, and no IE resetting is required! Open notepad and copy/past. Code: Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00 [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Classes\htmlfile\shell\open\command] @="\"C:\\Program Files (x86)\\Pale Moon\\palemoon.EXE\" -nohome" You can put every browser and his path in there! save as something.reg and execute. Hyperlinks work again in your favorite browser.
Code: Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00 [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Classes\htmlfile\shell\open\command] @="\"C:\\Program Files (x86)\\Pale Moon\\palemoon.EXE\" -nohome" Please post code in a Code box. After 50 chars the forums soft inserts a break that will screw the posted code ... check yours, in the reg path after \shell . ************************* EDIT: HINT: The Code Box can be created via the '#' button in post editor .