"dadiOH" wrote in message
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MIcrosft has joined the sneaky" baggage added "
installers. Yesterday on Win 7 machine I downloaded
Microsoft's "Defender (presumably an anti virus anti
malware tool) With the download, MS set IE as the
default search engine.
So now if I go (via a HTTP shortcut ) to Google --I first
get IE which in turn calls Google from within IE !
Annoying !! So my questions"
Where in the registry is the setting(s) for default
browser? And where is the setting(s) for default search
engine?? If I can find those I'll edit them back to
what I want!

Since you have been involved with computers for so long I am surprised
that you think that Internet Explorer is a "search engine". It isn't. It
is a browser.

Well --- I'm not so sure! Yesterday, in setting up a new Win 7
machine,
I tried to download Windows Defender (which I''m convinced, doesn't do much)
I got a mesage that Defender was already installed on Win Vista -- that's
what it said
-- and along with it came a window displaying "Bing" quite prominently
and a check box which, if checked, would have set Windows 7 so that nothing
else could change the "Default Search" settings.

To change the things you want to change there is no need to screw up your
registry, just do it in the same old way; namely, via Internet Options.


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dadiOH
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