Re: Changing the default browser
- From: Stephen Glynn <stephen.glynn@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 28 Aug 2005 09:41:28 GMT
Thanks (and to everyone else who replied). I don't particularly want to get rid of IE, partly because this irritation isn't big enough for me to want to put in much effort fixing it, but mostly because you need IE fully to use a lot of sites (not least Microsoft's, of course, but there are several British government sites that don't work properly in anything other than IE).
I supposed there must be something in (e.g.) Serif Pageplus' Registration Wizard that says 'launch IE' rather than 'launch the default browser'. I just wondered either if there was some setting other than the one in Internet Options that I could change in order to alter the result of the instruction to 'launch IE'.
Can anyone think why a programmer, unless perhaps he worked for Microsoft, would bother to specify which browser a Wizard should launch unless he wanted to point to a site that only worked in IE?
Steve
DanS wrote:
Stephen Glynn <stephen.glynn@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in news:InpPe.2140 $qe5.1006@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx:
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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