Error on clicking on links in Outlook
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Sometimes it so happens that when you click on any Hyperlink in an Outlook email, you get an error message which goes like this:
This operation has been cancelled due to restrictions in effect on this computer. Please contact your system administrator.
This error is actually not an Outlook error. Your Outlook configuration is alright, but you need to go and fix something outside Outlook to get this working. This error occurs when a specific part of the Windows Registry related to Internet Explorer settings is corrupted or missing. This can happen if you upgraded the version of your IE.
There are a couple of approaches you can take to resolve this:
Troubleshooting Outlook: Error 0×800CCC0D
One of the most common errors that you receive while using Microsoft Outlook is shown in the picture below. This error can result from a large number of possibilities, and we will try to cover as many of them as possible in this post.