Pretty much. You have to train IE once you have set another browser as default. Once you have IE as your default, if you open Firefox it will probably ask if you want IT as your default. Viscous circle.
Icons - since they were probably set up using IE, they will open in IE. Just a question. Why are web sites on your desktop. Why not keep them in your Favorites?
You can set any browser as your default. But. Windows updates want IE as the browser.
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I think computer viruses should count as life. I think it says something about human nature that the only form of life we have created so far is purely destructive. We've created life in our own image. - - Stephen W. Hawking
I have Firefox as my default browser. I presume that in order to use IE, I have to click on my desktop IE icon, click on Properties, then on the Programs tab, and put a check in the box about having IE check to see if it is my default browser. Then, when I go to a wabpage I'll get a question from IE: do I want to make it my default? And I need to say Yes.
That is a pretty complicated way to have to switch to IE. Is there an easier way?
I find that if I open IE, I can type a URL in the address box and get the URL in IE. But if I go back to my desktop to click on a website icon, I'll be switched back to Firefox unless I have made IE my default.
Am I understanding things correctly? grandpaw

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