Windows Internet Explorer 8 X32 BIT, Unable To Use The X32 Bit Version Of IE As My Default Browser
Apr 10, 2010
I had to re-formal my hard drive due to some difficulties I have been having. When I restored my original OS I found that I had 2 Internet Explorer icons. I would like to be able to use the X32 bit version of IE as my default browser. How can I accomplish this? I have one game provider that runs only on X32 bit, and I would like to be able to download their games. I am running Windows Vista Home Premium Edition X64 bit SP2.
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Feb 2, 2010
This week, Net Applications released their January browser market share report. Their report shows that Internet Explorer 8 is not only the most popular browser on Windows with 27.9% usage share, but that it now has 25.6% of market share across all OS’s on a worldwide-weighted usage share basis (data provided by Net Applications). We launched just less than a year ago, so it’s both humbling and thrilling to see so many people choose our product so quickly – making it the most popular browser of choice worldwide.
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2. it won't tell me what security settings are responsible; and
3. it doesn't even indicate where its trying to download from so I can use my default browser to manually download and install the security update.
The only thing I can think of which might work is setting all security settings in IE7 to minimum. Any other ideas, eg how to get Windows Help & Support to use the default browser?
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