Random "run command" issue.

Caporegime
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Running Vista Ultimate (32-bit), and up until yesterday had never seen anything like this before!

I went to run iTunes, to which I got told that iTunes needed repairing (odd, but what the hey), so I went to download iTunes installer again from apple, the way I usually browse to any website when I haven't got an IE window open (don't try and get me to convert to firefox, I DON'T want to), by typing the address into the run box. So in the run box, I type:

www.apple.com/itunes

which randomly tried to open the iTunes application, again telling me that it was broken :/

If I type into the run box:

www.apple.com

it will open IE, and load the page, very odd. However, it gets stranger... typing:

www.google.com/itunes
www.apple.com/wmplayer
www.google.co.uk/wmplayer

etc, etc, etc, will all try to load iTunes or Windows Media Player applications respectively!

These are the only two apps I seem to be able to launch in this way, for instance, adding cmd or mstsc do nothing :confused:

Anyone got any ideas?
 
That works fine, but it doesn't solve the problem now does it?

It works for any root URL, or any subfolder URL so long as it doesn't contain /WMPLAYER or /ITUNES, so adding http:// isn't needed, it USED to work by omitting the http:// and now it doesn't, so something must be wrong.
 
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