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throdgrain

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Hi chums

They've installed google chrome here at work, and it's taken over as the default web browser. How do I change it back to Internet Explorer?

Thank you very glad
 

Bahumat

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throdgrain said:
Hi chums

They've installed google chrome here at work, and it's taken over as the default web browser. How do I change it back to Internet Explorer?

Thank you very glad

Open ie. if you don't get prompted go into tools > Internet options and its on the page where you set the homepage URL. A box says something like "warn me if this is not the default browser" or "set this as the default browser".

Can also do it in control panel.
 

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Control Panel -> Programs -> Default Programs - Set Default Programs
 

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Why would you want to do this ?

At work they had IE on all the machines. I installed Chrome. It runs about 10x faster. The world is a better place.

Admittedly they are old and shitty machines and it is an old version of IE (they wouldn't cope with the new one, and they're still on XP).
 

throdgrain

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There had to be one ... :p

Chrome is ok, I actually use it for playing the radio and some advertising tools as I find if I leave IE on the same thing for a long time it becomes progressively slower as it eats up all the memory. However I also use a online sales diary thing that will only work in IE for some annoying reason, which is why I need to change the default browser, and also I need to buy a bit more memory too :p

Anyway,Bahumat - thanks :)
 

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IE9 is pretty good imo. Used IE from the time I started on computers and never really got around to changing my habits.
 

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