General Failure when opening a link in Outlook 2007

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Published on 2009-11-19T11:45:57Z Indexed on 2010/03/25 16:03 UTC
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Why do I get the error: "General Failure. The application cannot be found.", whenever I click on a link in a message in Outlook 2007?

Actually, it is not I who have the problem, but my colleague. Thanks.

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