XP Issues

[SirPorl]

A friend of mine is running XP with SP2 on his machine. All of a sudden when you click on the IE icon to launch it it brings up the properties for the shortcut instead of launching the program. I have checked it for spyware and viruses and it comes up clean. This is something stupid simple but I can't seem to figure it out. Anything will help out.

SirPorl

 

[MrChad]

In Control Panel, go to Add/Remove Programs and click on Set Program Access and Defaults.

Under Custom, select Internet Explorer as your default web browser, then click OK. This should repair the Internet Explorer icon.

 

[scottws]

So it acts like you are right-clicking it? I would first check to see if the mouse somehow got configured for left-hand use (Control Panel | Pointing Devices). If it is configured for right-hand use (normal/default) then - only if it is USB - I would unplug the mouse and plug it in again. If it is PS/2 or that doesn't solve the problem, I would reboot.