Jason wrote:
On Mon, 01 Jan 2018 00:01:31 -0500 "Paul" wrote in
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It would work if you selected MSEdge :-)

Paul



Actually, it did not work! In the Win Settings panel, I was offered Edge,
IE, Chrome, and FF and couldn't change any of them.

There are a series of Registry merge files (.reg) for your
inspection here. They include file extension (HTML) and protocol (HTTP).
Missing is HTTPS. These are mainly for examination in Notepad.
*Don't* just double click them. You can add .txt to the end
of the name, to make it a bit safer.

https://www.tenforums.com/tutorials/...dows-10-a.html

In one of those files, I can see a concerted effort to set some competing
browsers to "zero" :-) Which presumably stops them from being
offered in some menu.

Some of the entries are protected with a hash. This may be
an attempt to detect "interference" from things that don't
know how to generate the associated hash.

While the description for html.reg says it's for "Microsoft Edge",
the visible evidence inside is it's a file to associate
Internet Explorer. Brink has offered files like this before for
Win8 and Win7, and these might have been brought forward from
one of his other web sites (sevenforums, eightforums).

Before you'd actually run one of those, you'd want a backup to protection
you from making a mess. I don't know how good those are, and how
they were extracted from the OS in the first place. Since Windows
has a "restoring defaults" button, the content may actually
be coming from the system resource that carries that out. Rather
than being vacuumed out of the registry after a clean install.

Paul