Setting ie as default browser in windows 7

However Windows is still able to determine that. How does Windows determine that? It must be referring to some registry key. Which one is that? Please note that I am not asking how to make IE the default browser. I know how to do that. I just want to know how Windows knows that IE is the default browser. You probably have the settings of the other browsers installed on your system to automatically set them as the default browser, negating the IE settings change.

Thanks for replying. I do not have settings in any browser which would automatically make it the default one. I even have turned off the option of all browsers that check it to be the default one. So I guess or rather expect that other installed browsers should not affect this functionality. As I said setting IE to be the default browser either from Internet options or control panel doesn't update the above said registry keys.

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I have the same question Report abuse. When you need to search something online, you can open a browser and type keywords into the search box or go to a specific website directly by typing the URL into the address bar. What's the benefit of setting your preferred web browser as the default one? The most obvious advantage is that the specific browser will be opened automatically when you click links on the internet, in the email or document.

After all, some users said it's a bad experience to see the wrong browser loading after clicking a link. Most users need this app, but some don't so we want the users who never use that app to be able to change their default and not have it forced back to IE. I haven't seen any way to force this site to open only in IE I think there are ways to redirect sites opened in Edge to IE, but that won't help Chrome users.

Isn't there a local security policy you can use to set default programs? Yes, but we only want to set the default once. That policy will keep reapplying after every group policy refresh cycle and we don't want that. That way, only a select group is able to change it. I think I would use a group to set a Deny Apply Policy permission for the users who don't need to have the default forced to IE That way it applies to everyone you haven't intentionally excluded.

I would use JRP78's method.