I have been trying to keep IE from opening & actually just posted to this forum earlier to see if some who were discussing it had answers for me. THEN I FOUND YOU. I had goine into IE to check for default setting before, but must have missed it. Sure enough it was checked to see if it was the default Browser. I am very hopeful that I now will not have to even think of IE. I'm appreciative of your input. And for your very easy to follow instructions.
Firefox is my default browser, but anytime I click on a url in my Outlook 2002, it opens in IE. Likewise, when I click on any shortcut on my Desktop, it opens in IE. If I open Firefox and create a shortcut for a particular page, even tho the shortcut shows the Firefox icon, it still opens in IE! The only time my browser opens in Firefox is when I open Firefox and click on a url from there.

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