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Microsoft wants Edge to automatically open by default every time you turn on your Windows 11 PC (www.windowscentral.com)
submitted 4 months ago by to c/technology@lemmy.world
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When will they ever learn?

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[–] 1 point 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 child)

Although windows will still try to open edge and will blank out your default browser just to spite you. Absolutely infuriating.

I used to replace the edge .exe with a copy of firefox .exe, then write protecting everything in that directory and disabling scheduled updates and that seemed to work (for a while at least.)

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  • [–] 1 point 4 months ago

    Not that I've seen, at least not in the IoT versions of 10 and 11 we're currently running. Although there are some hard-coded functions wherein Windows will disrespect your default browser assignment no matter what, such as pressing F1 for help in Explorer. Since we have Edge disabled entirely on all machines here, instead when you do that nothing happens.

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