ShellExecute not opening page on Windows 8 when chrome is the default browser [duplicate]-Collection of common programming errors

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I have an elevated desktop application that sometimes opens webpages on errors. The problem I am having is on Windows 8 when Chrome is set as the default browser. It does not open the page, running the process non elevated works fine… Here is how I’m opening the page:

ShellExecute( NULL, TEXT("open"),sPageURL,NULL, NULL, SW_SHOWNORMAL );

where sPageURL is the url of the page.

I also tried opening an elevated CMD and opening a web page such as google.com through it like so:

start http://www.google.com

I got the error "Class not registered".

What is the best alternative way to overcome this issue?