removing netscape 4.79 as default browser

Have a friend who has netscape 4.79 as default browser. She wants I.E. as default browser but changing the internet options check mark does not appear to work even though it should. The prefs.js does not display the user line to change from true to false and actually mine does not either.

Anyway I know by uninstalling netscape then reinstalling it can be made not to be the default browser but is there a registry entry that can be modified without uninstalling. Have looked at Netscapes web site and Microsofts but unable to find the key that may do this.

 

Hi gg,

I believe this is the Registry Key to which you refer:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Classes\HTTP\Shell\Open\ddeexec\Application

Ramona

 

Romana

Thanks for the key. It does look like the right one. Appreciated.

 

Pardon me for jumping.

There is a great FREE program for setting the default browser.

"SETBROWSER "

http://www.pc-tools.net/win32/freeware/gui/

I've used it for jumping from NS 7.0, NS 6.2.X and IE, seems pretty stable and very small (42K)

Good luck.

 

Thank you have already downloaded and will give a try.

 

SetBRowser freewar

I have XP, and I'm leary about SetBrowser because it doesn't menton XP. Does anyone know if it's safe for XP?
Alice

 

Havent tried on xp yet but have clients that have run it on w2k and it works fine.