Re: The Case of the Disappearing Default Programs (long)
- From: "Tickettyboo" <tickettyboo@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 15 Mar 2009 16:50:15 -0000
"MCC" <mcc11639@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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However it did tell me to download these two files to my desktop, right
click and select merge to put them into my registry and this would restore
normality.
registeredapplications.reg
firefox.reg
Unfortunately when I downloaded them using Firefox they got changed to
text
files and there was no 'merge' option when I right clicked which wasn't
much help so I had to use IE7 to download them. That was OK.
:-) I have to smile, isn't the reason we are constantly exhorted to use a
browser such as Firefox rather than IE partly the security aspect? Quite
rightly FF was telling you that a .reg file can be a powerful thing and FF
( and you till you open it and look to see what its purporting to do)
doesn't know if the .reg file is something untoward or not. I suppose it may
even be possible ( but I dunno) for it to go haring off and changing stuff
without your say so.
The 'better security' aspect of FF was giving you something which was a
plain text file, to give you the chance to look and see and decide if it was
what you expected and would do what you expected it to do. Whereas the 'less
secure' IE did what you told it to do and downloaded a .reg file, no
questions asked.
Pleased the problem is fixted though, not nice when stuff disappears before
your eyes.
--
Ticketty᧧
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