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Uninstalling Google Chrome can mess up your PC(if it was set as default browser)

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googlehater:
Google Chrome messed up you settings after you uninstalled it?

Go:-

Internet Explorer
Cog icon top R.H.S click Internet Options
Select programs
Then Make Internet Explorer your default
Apply ok

Sorted

TaoPhoenix:
I remember Windows used to have big problems for file type associations. When you set something as the associated app for a file extension it just overwrote the entry. I can remember stuff like WinZip and UltimateZip fighting over the zip file extension.  Now I think Windows remembers the previous one so you can uninstall.

But I think it still has that same old default browser bug.

Somebody on this forum may know more about how the registry acts with default browser setting generally:

http://www.sevenforums.com/browsers-mail/

-MilesAhead (April 27, 2011, 04:42 PM)
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There's still some file association bugs. I have seen glitches on picture and media file types when about 6 different programs fight over "___ can associate files. Do you want to?"

The point of uninstalling was supposed to be that all the loose crap gets cleaned up.

Jibz:
Different versions of Windows and IE have left behind a rather complex set of different ways to handle defaults. I am sure mouser has some interesting stories about it, see for instance:

https://www.donationcoder.com/Software/Mouser/browsertray/help/index.html?registrychangesmadebyprogr.htm

It should be a simple process to uninstall a browser and restore the settings, sadly it is not.

TaoPhoenix:
"One of the reasons i can't open source this code is because of all the curse words directed at Microsoft in it."

 ;D

Darwin:
Google Chrome messed up you settings after you uninstalled it?

Go:-

Internet Explorer
Cog icon top R.H.S click Internet Options
Select programs
Then Make Internet Explorer your default
Apply ok

Sorted
-googlehater (November 28, 2012, 07:05 AM)
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Did you read this thread? I don't know about the current state of things, the thread having been dormant for close to a year before you posted the above, but up to that point affected posters, myself included, had tried that with no success...

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