Hi Milhouse,

Does uninstalling and then reinstalling Opera help? If that does not help, you may download a REG file which restores missing keys related to Opera registration. It's available here: [url]http://www.winhelponline.com/fixes/opera_fix.reg[/url]. Download the file and save it to Desktop. Right-click on the file and then choose Merge. If you want to view the contents of the file, open it using Notepad.

Note: The file paths are hard-coded for C:\ drive. You may need to change the drive-letter if you've Windows installed in a different drive than C:\

FYI, I'm using the latest version of Opera and it's listed correctly when I use the "Associate a file type or protocol..." dialog.

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Regards,

Ramesh Srinivasan, Microsoft MVP [Windows Shell/User]
Windows® Troubleshooting [url]http://www.winhelponline.com[/url]


"Milhouse Van Houten" <btvs@myrealbox.com> wrote in message news:ejxe88WlHHA.1624@TK2MSFTNGP06.phx.gbl...
Could someone tell me why when on Ultimate I go here: Start/Default
Programs/"Associate a file type or protocol..."

Scroll down to "URL : HyperText Transfer Protocol"

I get only the choice between IE and FF:
[url]http://img294.imageshack.us/img294/1609/capturexx4.png[/url]

Why can't I choose other browsers? Opera is the default browser on the
system and it's not even listed here as a choice.

Everything I've tested opens links in Opera, but Outlook 2007 suddenly
decided today that it wants to use IE. If I change the above screen to FF,
it uses FF, so I'm thinking if I could choose Opera there it would use Opera
again, though it apparently wasn't necessary before.

The corresponding Registry entry seems to be this:
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\Shell\Associations\UrlAssociations\http\UserChoice

The value there does change to something appropriate for IE or FF when you
use the above screen to change the browser for the HTTP protocol. However,
when I put "Opera.Protocol" there (which was what it always used to be),
links in Outlook still open in IE.