Force links in lotus notes emails to always open in a new window?

Question

I'm using C# to generate emails that are read using Lotus notes. The problem is we want the links to always open up in a new window in IE but they always open in the same window when I use "Lotus Notes - Basic Edition" (8.0.1) but when I use the regular lotus notes 8.0.1, they always open up in a new window. I tried looking around in the preferences but can't find a setting that'll explain this.

(note: I'm using IE 8 as my default browser. If I change it to chrome or FF this doesn't happen)

Solution

Not sure you are still facing this problem or not, but for the sake of other users posting the solutions.

In Location Preferences, under Internet Browser, don't select "Microsoft Internet Explorer", instead select others and then browse to path of Internet Explorer - "C:\Program Files\Internet Explorer\IEXPLORE.EXE"

Save it. Now your links will always open in different IE window.