Set Default Browser for all users on a 2008 R2 Terminal Server
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Friday, March 01, 2013 8:53 PMWe have a 2008 R2 Terminal Server with several hundred users. Another admin installed a 3rd party browser that has now become the default browser for everyone on the server! We have software that is not compatible with this other browser and I would like to set the default browser back to IE8. I've gone through the forums looking at suggestions and I have not found one that works correctly! I looked at several solutions that use GPO and none of them has worked for me. Is there a simple registry setting or GPO solution that does work to set the default browser for the users on our terminal server? Most of our users do not even have desktops - we use the environment to put them directly into our application, so they never have the oportunity to make IE their default browser. Thank you.
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Sunday, March 03, 2013 11:28 AM
I think you will find the "solution" here: http://newoldthing.wordpress.com/2007/03/23/how-does-your-browsers-know-that-its-not-the-default-browser/
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Monday, March 11, 2013 4:04 PMThis solution doesn't quite do everything. I have set the registry values as indicated in this post, but IE still is prompting to become the default browser. There must be another entry that indicates to Windows what the default browser is. So, this is close, but not quite everything that is needed. Isn't there just a simple single registry entry that indicates the default browser??? Still looking for a solution.
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Monday, March 11, 2013 8:39 PMDid you see last part for Vista which should be same for 2008 and later?
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Goran Johansson
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