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Please help...... Yesterday on startup, the Edge icon was missing from the taskbar as well as all my apps. Several system restores didn't have any effect on this problem, so I'm at a loss as to both the cause & more importantly, a solution. Oddly, Word also disappeared from my apps., but I've...

I installed Windows 10 (upgrading a Windows 7 Toshiba Laptop) several weeks ago and everything seemed to be working fine. A few days ago I started to see that when I went to close down the laptop "Task Host stopping background tasks" If I cancelled the shutdown (thinking something was still...

I have a Windows 10 Pro X 64 laptop. I am not able to change the home page in the Edge browser. My default browser Firefox has the home page I want but I cannot get this to work in Edge.. I navigate to my preferred page and go to Internet Options and the option to "Use Current Page" is grayed...

Whether you do it during the Windows 10 upgrade process or after the new operating system is installed, dealing with your web browser choice and making it the default is simple on the new OS. read more Continue reading...

It really is very simple to change your default browser in Windows 10. Here is how you do it in less than 60 seconds. read more Continue reading...

I don't really know what could be causing this problem, and it's kind of specific so I don't know what to search for on the internet. Something on my computer is opening web pages in my default browser (chrome) very often, with the frequency ranging from opening once every hour, to opening it 10...

If I enter a URL or click a link in an IE8 window, the requested page will come i an existing or newly created Firefox window. I decided to try changing my default browser from Firefox to IE8 to see if it would help, but couldn't figure out how. Is anyone familiar with either of these problems?

I want to view the link in the standard IE not windows. Sorry I don't know how to better describe this situation. For example in an email containing a link to an article or further information, clicking on the link opens up a different type of IE. This does not happen if clicking on a link...

Two problems which I found recently that are new (things were fine before). They may be connected or they may be separate problems: 1) I have hyperlinks to web pages in a number of my Excel files, and also in Word files. All of a sudden, the links don't call up the web pages. Instead, I get an...

hey all! I've been having some troubles with my PC and wondering if someone on here could help me out!? So lately my google chrome has been opening randomly, multiple times, and its really annoying! It will even do it when I am in games and it would minimize my game every time it did it. So I...

Ive set the IE as default from Internt otions of IE( dektop version). Now the app from start screen wont do anything. Th e desktop version works but It can be launch frpm the startscreen either. I have unpined and pined to startcsreen but no avail. That browser choice that keeps staying on the...

I've recently installed Start Menu 8 to create a win 7 menu and bypass the tiles, but now I don't see IE 10 listed anywhere. Where could it go? I didn't think you could get rid of IE10. I use Chrome as my default browser, but I would like to open IE 10 if needed. How do I get IE 10 back...

While working I mostly use Chrome. Even so the fullscreen IE metro appp is quite appealing and its nice to wander sometimes while using it.So there is no other way of keeping it as app too without seting IE as default browser. And on a side note: That Browser choice shoulnt dissapear once Ive...

OS Version: Microsoft Windows 7 Home Premium, Service Pack 2, 64 bit Processor: Pentium(R) Dual-Core CPU E5300 @ 2.60GHz, Intel64 Family 6 Model 23 Stepping Processor Count: 2 RAM: 6109 Mb Graphics Card: Intel(R) G45/G43 Express Chipset, -1265 Mb Hard Drives: C: Total - 938406 MB, Free - 886307...

I am using w7 64Bite and I cant connect to the web using Firefox by default. I have try Explorer 64 Bite same result. I was only available to connect by Explorer 32Bite *Only on open public places, where I have to log and sing agreement. Note: I have set-up as Firefox by default

Hi all I am trying out the Windows 8 Release Preview on a secondary hard drive, but there is a couple of things that i would like to change. So does anyone know of a program that can change what the corners do, so i can for example set the bottom left corner to always swich between Metro and...

Microsoft is providing the Browser Choice update to comply with a legal settlement with the European Commission. Microsoft is required to inform customers who currently use Internet Explorer as their default browser that there are other web browser choices available. You can use the Browser...

Ok, I've had a real problem with I.E. overpowering Firefox. If I click on any link, it opens in I.E. I've tried every suggestion as to how to make FF my default browser, from at least a dozen sources and nothing works. So I tried this. I have a desktop shortcut to this forum on my desktop...

I recently installed Windows 7 64-bit on my iMac using Parallels Desktop for Mac. The install went smoothly. But I've run into an issue now: Any time that I try and use a program that has embedded HTML (i.e. it calls an html file in the program file directory to display some information within...

I ran hijackthis and have the logfile, I hope its okay to just post it. What's happening is the first time after I boot the computer and click firefox, ie will load, say its not my default browser and do I want ot change, no, I shut it down and click on Firefox again, Firefox loads, saying its...