can you set anything but microsoft as defaults?

Netscape asks to be default mail and browser... I say "Yes" it says it
can't change the registry, run change your user so you can change the
registry. Good luck.

I go to the set defaults part of Vista but the only possible programs
listed are &%$@!^%$ Microsoft programs. What is that? You can only
choose among Microsoft programs for your default programs in vista?

I have a single user home computer with home premium. 90% of the time so
far is fighting back all the BS Microsoft sets you up with. Uninstalling
the ads, turning off all the crap that's supposed to protect you. I'm
down to this problem and a couple other things after only 5-6 hours.

Help

John

Start netscape by right clicking on it and selectiing "Run as administrator"
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Paul


"John" wrote:

> Netscape asks to be default mail and browser... I say "Yes" it says it
> can't change the registry, run change your user so you can change the
> registry. Good luck.
>
> I go to the set defaults part of Vista but the only possible programs
> listed are &%$@!^%$ Microsoft programs. What is that? You can only
> choose among Microsoft programs for your default programs in vista?
>
> I have a single user home computer with home premium. 90% of the time so
> far is fighting back all the BS Microsoft sets you up with. Uninstalling
> the ads, turning off all the crap that's supposed to protect you. I'm
> down to this problem and a couple other things after only 5-6 hours.
>
> Help
>
> John
>

Does Netscape have an update to be compatible with Vista's registration
scheme? It's a pretty easy one - they would just look up "Default Programs"
on MSDN and go from there.

Applications can't hijack system-wide associations on their startup on Vista
because they don't have admin privileges. That's a user-friendly feature -
MS applications can't do that either. =)

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"John" <> wrote in message
news:...
> Netscape asks to be default mail and browser... I say "Yes" it says it
> can't change the registry, run change your user so you can change the
> registry. Good luck.
>
> I go to the set defaults part of Vista but the only possible programs
> listed are &%$@!^%$ Microsoft programs. What is that? You can only choose
> among Microsoft programs for your default programs in vista?
>
> I have a single user home computer with home premium. 90% of the time so
> far is fighting back all the BS Microsoft sets you up with. Uninstalling
> the ads, turning off all the crap that's supposed to protect you. I'm down
> to this problem and a couple other things after only 5-6 hours.
>
> Help
>
> John

On Wed, 22 Aug 2007 18:57:16 -0500, John wrote:

> Netscape asks to be default mail and browser... I say "Yes" it says it
> can't change the registry, run change your user so you can change the
> registry. Good luck.
>
> I go to the set defaults part of Vista but the only possible programs
> listed are &%$@!^%$ Microsoft programs. What is that? You can only choose
> among Microsoft programs for your default programs in vista?

Don't you know? Microsoft is the only thing that exists in the universe.
Therefore everything you run has to be made by them.

> I have a single user home computer with home premium. 90% of the time so
> far is fighting back all the BS Microsoft sets you up with. Uninstalling
> the ads, turning off all the crap that's supposed to protect you. I'm down
> to this problem and a couple other things after only 5-6 hours.

If you're down to only that in 5-6 hours, you're an effin' whiz! Or you
just haven't found most of the problems yet.

On Wed, 22 Aug 2007 20:54:25 -0700, zachd [MSFT] wrote:

> Applications can't hijack system-wide associations on their startup on
> Vista because they don't have admin privileges. That's a user-friendly
> feature - MS applications can't do that either. =)

User-friendly? I always thought it was supposed to be a good term, not
synonymous with "pain in the butt."