Hatrack River Forum: Net Browsers Help (Solved)

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Posted by Corwin (Member # 5705) on :

I use Internet Explorer for my web navigation. A couple of days ago on some of the computers in the campus IE stopped working. Everything else was ok (Yahoo!Messenger, etc), so I downloaded Opera. Yey, it worked!

Now comes the problem. IE is working again. That's good. But I put Opera as my default browser and when I was pushing the "WWW" button on the keyboard it opened Opera instead of IE. I looked in IE's options and, while it has the option to CHECK if it is the default web explorer, it has none to SET it like that. Well, none that I found. And what do you know, it doesn't check! Grrr... I tried uninstalling Opera and now there's no more explorer associated to my WWW button.

So, do you have any idea how to reset this stuff? What obvious way/option am I missing?

I hope this makes sense... [Big Grin]

[ January 24, 2005, 09:35 AM: Message edited by: Corwin ]

Posted by Boris (Member # 6935) on :

Is it the button on your keyboard you're talking about? If that's the case, you should be able to set the shortcuts to whatever you want by going into the control panel for your keyboard.

Posted by Corwin (Member # 5705) on :

That's not the only problem. If I have a URL in a document if I click on it it won't open anything anymore. Also, when from Y!Messenger I receive a mail alert and tell it to open Y!Mail, nada... I'll try the keyboard setting though.

Posted by Corwin (Member # 5705) on :

Ok, that was easy enough. The button's now reset to IE. But normally it would have a default setting, called "WWW" that is the default browser.

Posted by aspectre (Member # 2222) on :

Are we talking of your own computer, or does the computer belong to the school?

Posted by King of Men (Member # 6684) on :

Well, why would you want to use IE, anyway? Death to Micro$oft!

Posted by Corwin (Member # 5705) on :

aspectre: Nope, it's my own computer, not the university's. You probably thought about that because I said "campus", right? It was just because I'm in one of the campus residences.

KoM: [Razz]

Posted by Corwin (Member # 5705) on :

So, anybody else have an idea? This stuff's still not working properly...

Posted by fugu13 (Member # 2859) on :

I forget how you do it on windows, but what you need to do is set the file associations to IE.

I think you can get to a window which allows you to set them by right clicking, going to open with -> other. . ., picking Internet Explorer, and checking an option that's something like "always open files of this type with . . .".

Posted by Corwin (Member # 5705) on :

Yeah, been there, done that. The files work, but web links from, let's say, a Yahoo Messenger chat window don't. Meaning that if someone types http...bla...bla..bla in chat Y!M will see it as an address but when I click on it nothing happens. (and no, that's not the beauty of it! [Wink]

) And it still won't do anything when I get an e-mail notification and tell it to directly open the e-mail...

Posted by Corwin (Member # 5705) on :

Nevermind, I found it. There's a button that resets all sort of settings and also makes IE the default browser. Since I didn't modify those settings before it costed me nothing to click it. Of course, to find out what it does you have to look at that "what's this" message... [Big Grin]

"If at first you don't succeed, look in the trash for the instructions."