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Hey guys, is there a way that you can launch a computers default browser using the start>run textbox? We have a large network at my work and we have to go around and change the proxy and port numbers on each computer, but some of the computers have internet explorer and firefox, and to save time i only want to change the proxy and port on each computers default browser. Thanks!
I think you can do it using a login script. An 'if' statement would determine if IE is set to the default or not. You can go from there.
IEDefault=[0,1]
Determines whether Internet Explorer will be set as the default browser.
0 Internet Explorer will not be set as the default browser.
1 (default) Internet Explorer will be set as the default browser.There is more at:
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/pr...
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Just to say --
Some browsers set themselves as Default, when you start that browser.If Default is IE, then open Netscape, Netscape will set itself as Default. If I then open IE, then IE will set itself as Default.
My Default changes everyday.
I guess you know all of this.
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Thank you both, but all i need is to know if there is a way to quickly launch the default browser from the start>run textbox. I dont need to determine which one it is, i just need it to open up. We are dealing with alot of computers and we need to be able to do this quickly and only to the default.
Chuck - Both IE and Mozilla will ask you to change it to the default if it detects that it is not. I have never had one do it automatically, strange. Thanks though
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It worked for me
An 'if' statement would determine if IE is set to the default or not. You can go from there.
IEDefault=[0,1]
Thanks !
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Thats great, but i still have no answer, i dont need other ways to do it, im just asking if there is a way to do it through start>run, im not really interested in any other way.
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I found your answer by searching the web ???
Answer is new for me.Just type a URL address into the RUN box.
eg:
http://www.yahoo.com/
That will open the Default Browser.
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Now theres an answer, thank you. Yeah i looked on google but never found what i was looking for.
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How does that save you the trouble of going to each machine to change the proxy? Wasn't that the original question?
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No, my original question was a request for an easy way to launch the default browser, which ever one that is. All of the computers have firefox and IE, but i only care about changing the proxy for each computers default browswer, because thats the only browser that the computer user uses. I know how to change the proxy already.
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I tried typing a number of URL's into the start>run prompt but when I click ok, or press enter, a box comes up informing me that
http://www.yahoo.com/ is an invalid parameter.
This happens with any address I enter.
I also need to know what my default browser is, as every single time I open Firefox, it tells me that Firefox is not my default browser, and asks me if I would like to set it as the default. Each time I click yes.
Odd.Don't put a question here?
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