Re: Changing the default browser

Stephen Glynn <stephen.glynn@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in news:InpPe.2140
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>
> I use Firefox as my main web browser. I've set it as the default
> browser in Internet Properties and most of the time it appears when I
> want it to.
>
> However, some third-party software will insist, when it needs to access
> the internet (e.g. when I'm trying to register it), on trying to open
> Internet Explorer.
>
> Is this some quirk of the third-party software, or is there anything I
> can do in Windows XP (home) to fix this minor annoyance?
>
> Steve

While you can't really completely remove IE EASILY, there are pages on
the web that have instructions on how to do it. google for that.

http://www.litepc.com/xplite.html is a utility that supposedly allow you
to do it.

nLite is a custom installer for XP, http://www.nliteos.com/nlite.html ,
nLite allows you to take your existing XP CD and create a new XP install
CD from it where you can pick and choose what to/not to install, like OE,
all the unneeded services, Messenger, Dr. Watson, NetMeeting, the list
goes on and on, and does list IE. I have a new nLiteXP CD ready to try,
but need a new bigger HD first. supposedly from what i have read, you can
get the XP install down to a few hundred meg (not counting swap file).

what I have done on my PC is, at first I renamed IEXPLORE.EXE and deleted
it from the PREFETCH. Then I renamed the entire IE Folder. All the files
are still there, but it won't run as IE, which is what I think you'd be
happy with. now, whatever in the OS may use it can still use it, because
the OS doesn't open iexplore.exe, it uses the dll's of IE to do what it
needs. come to think of it, a 3rd party app may do the same, but nothing
can launch IEXPLORE.exe if it's not there.


Regards,

DanS

PS- Internet Explorer can't be THAT integrated into the OS, since in XP
Embedded, you can EASILY build an OS image without IE.. AS-a-matter-of-
fact, you can use XPEmbedded to create an XP OS for a desktop as well.
.

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