Resetting the default browser to IE?

seamus

Yes, yes, it sounds like an easy one but it's not. The images for our machines in work come with Windows and applications heavily customised, and as a result, most, if not all options in IE are greyed out, and can't be changed.
Including the one which says "IE should check to see whether it is the default browser". In a moment of absent-mindedness I clicked on "Yes" when Firefox asked me if it could default, and now I can't change it back.
So anyone know any tricks, reg hacks, etc? I need IE as default since most of our internal stuff only works in IE, and they're the links I get in my mail.

mickeyboymel

Download Tweak 88 from this page at Kellys Koorner and run it to set default browsers:http://www.kellys-korner-xp.com/xp_tweaks.htm

sceptre

Have a look here, particularly the "check if default" entry.

As I remember, there's a big long list of things to be changed (this lists the start but if I remember correctly it's about 160 entries to get /everything/ swithed back) if you want to manually put it back to the way it was so changing that one entry and hopefully getting the popup box is a lot simpler.

That's:

User Key: [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Policies\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\
Control Panel]
System Key: [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Policies\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\
Control Panel]
Data Type: REG_DWORD Check_if_Default
Value Data: 0

edit: Mickey's solution might be easier. I'd try the above single key solution first if what's on the other page is an exe though.

Dun

I presume you don't have access to the "Set Program Access and Defaults" in the Control Panel then (if you're using Windows 2000 SP3/4 or XP SP1).

seamus

Originally posted by Dun
I presume you don't have access to the "Set Program Access and Defaults" in the Control Panel then (if you're using Windows 2000 SP3/4 or XP SP1).

Ah bollox. I forgot about that.

Cheers. Thanks for the other suggestions too guys.

sceptre

Originally posted by Dun
I presume you don't have access to the "Set Program Access and Defaults" in the Control Panel then (if you're using Windows 2000 SP3/4 or XP SP1).

Like an idiot I forgot about that too.

Dun

Happens to the best of us at one time or another.