Microsoft Edge is a Virus
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So the latest Edge update silently changed my PDF default app from FoxIt Reader to the Edge browser. And when I went to change it back, it gave me a "Are you sure you want to" prompt. Has this happened to anyone else?
The difficult we do right away... ...the impossible takes slightly longer.
What irritates me about Windows updates, is that it changes some of my preferences / settings. We have 3 printers on our home network. She has her own paintjet, so do I, and we share a laserjet for everyday print jobs. The laserjet is my default printer, except after an update. Then my default printer is her paintjet, for which I don't even have a driver installed. Yuck! :mad:
Get me coffee and no one gets hurt!
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So the latest Edge update silently changed my PDF default app from FoxIt Reader to the Edge browser. And when I went to change it back, it gave me a "Are you sure you want to" prompt. Has this happened to anyone else?
The difficult we do right away... ...the impossible takes slightly longer.
I wear a mask and use Chrome. ;)
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So the latest Edge update silently changed my PDF default app from FoxIt Reader to the Edge browser. And when I went to change it back, it gave me a "Are you sure you want to" prompt. Has this happened to anyone else?
The difficult we do right away... ...the impossible takes slightly longer.
Prolly not, got a host file installed. Can't remember the request. Even if so; that's just a "yes" to the prompt?
Bastard Programmer from Hell :suss: "If you just follow the bacon Eddy, wherever it leads you, then you won't have to think about politics." -- Some Bell.
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I wear a mask and use Chrome. ;)
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I wear a mask and use Chrome. ;)
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Client-Side Type-Based Publisher/Subscriber, Exploring Synchronous, "Event-ed", and Worker Thread Subscriptionswell according to Captain Faucci, you need to wear 2 masks now.
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well according to Captain Faucci, you need to wear 2 masks now.
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So the latest Edge update silently changed my PDF default app from FoxIt Reader to the Edge browser. And when I went to change it back, it gave me a "Are you sure you want to" prompt. Has this happened to anyone else?
The difficult we do right away... ...the impossible takes slightly longer.
Happened to me too. Edge isn't the virus though: MS Update is the virus 8(
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So the latest Edge update silently changed my PDF default app from FoxIt Reader to the Edge browser. And when I went to change it back, it gave me a "Are you sure you want to" prompt. Has this happened to anyone else?
The difficult we do right away... ...the impossible takes slightly longer.
I use it as well, and for the most part it's a good browser. But in the long run, it would serve us all best to go back to Firefox.
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So the latest Edge update silently changed my PDF default app from FoxIt Reader to the Edge browser. And when I went to change it back, it gave me a "Are you sure you want to" prompt. Has this happened to anyone else?
The difficult we do right away... ...the impossible takes slightly longer.
I use it as well, and for the most part it's a good browser. But in the long run, it would serve us all best to go back to Firefox.
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I use it as well, and for the most part it's a good browser. But in the long run, it would serve us all best to go back to Firefox.
Your message was duplicated, I have deleted the other copy.
M.D.V. ;) If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about? Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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So the latest Edge update silently changed my PDF default app from FoxIt Reader to the Edge browser. And when I went to change it back, it gave me a "Are you sure you want to" prompt. Has this happened to anyone else?
The difficult we do right away... ...the impossible takes slightly longer.
That's not really about edge and more about Windows. Edge doesn't have the power to change default apps on its own. I do enjoy the browser, but do hate Windows and its anti-trust behaviors which are not limited to Edge browser. As far as browser is concerned I actually moved to Edge because of Chrome's privacy issues and been happy since, because to me is a better browser overall.
To alcohol! The cause of, and solution to, all of life's problems - Homer Simpson ---- Our heads are round so our thoughts can change direction - Francis Picabia
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So the latest Edge update silently changed my PDF default app from FoxIt Reader to the Edge browser. And when I went to change it back, it gave me a "Are you sure you want to" prompt. Has this happened to anyone else?
The difficult we do right away... ...the impossible takes slightly longer.
Yes, it used to regularly happen with Windows Updates. Doesn't seem to any more.
Java, Basic, who cares - it's all a bunch of tree-hugging hippy cr*p
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So the latest Edge update silently changed my PDF default app from FoxIt Reader to the Edge browser. And when I went to change it back, it gave me a "Are you sure you want to" prompt. Has this happened to anyone else?
The difficult we do right away... ...the impossible takes slightly longer.
It's been happening to the computers that I manage for about 2 years now. Our programming code currently requires us to use Adobe although we are in the process of negating that requirement. Microsoft should leave our settings ALONE! It is extremely intrusive and disruptive for them to change/revert settings on an update. I've even experienced Firewall Rules being overwritten during an OS update.
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So the latest Edge update silently changed my PDF default app from FoxIt Reader to the Edge browser. And when I went to change it back, it gave me a "Are you sure you want to" prompt. Has this happened to anyone else?
The difficult we do right away... ...the impossible takes slightly longer.
I used to be a fan of FoxIt. Dropped them when the included spyware optional software was getting more and more invasive, and difficult to avoid during the installer. I like Sumatra, but on systems that can run Edge, I honestly have no problem sticking with it.
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well according to Captain Faucci, you need to wear 2 masks now.
Faucci...this is the guy who went from: March of last year: Don't use masks; it's pointless for the general population. Leave them to doctors and nurses. A few months later: Everybody should wear masks. We were just worried back then about a shortage. Now: Double and triple layers. I'm not part of "that group", but this is easy to see through: Now that everyone's shifted their manufacturing to producing them, there's an oversupply and we need to sell more so nobody's sitting on a huge inventory. If double-masks made sense, why haven't medical staff been wearing them that way since forever?
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That's not really about edge and more about Windows. Edge doesn't have the power to change default apps on its own. I do enjoy the browser, but do hate Windows and its anti-trust behaviors which are not limited to Edge browser. As far as browser is concerned I actually moved to Edge because of Chrome's privacy issues and been happy since, because to me is a better browser overall.
To alcohol! The cause of, and solution to, all of life's problems - Homer Simpson ---- Our heads are round so our thoughts can change direction - Francis Picabia
Fabio Franco wrote:
I do enjoy the browser, but do hate Windows and its anti-trust behaviors which are not limited to Edge browser.
Microsoft went through that two decades ago. Remind me who's being investigated for anti-trust now? And who's curiously missing from that list this time around?
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So the latest Edge update silently changed my PDF default app from FoxIt Reader to the Edge browser. And when I went to change it back, it gave me a "Are you sure you want to" prompt. Has this happened to anyone else?
The difficult we do right away... ...the impossible takes slightly longer.
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So the latest Edge update silently changed my PDF default app from FoxIt Reader to the Edge browser. And when I went to change it back, it gave me a "Are you sure you want to" prompt. Has this happened to anyone else?
The difficult we do right away... ...the impossible takes slightly longer.
I refer you to this software, which locks these things in place to some extent: actually quite effective. I think it does it using registry hacks: it's a one-time thing which doesn't install anything: Stop resetting my apps[^]
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So the latest Edge update silently changed my PDF default app from FoxIt Reader to the Edge browser. And when I went to change it back, it gave me a "Are you sure you want to" prompt. Has this happened to anyone else?
The difficult we do right away... ...the impossible takes slightly longer.
Microsoft keeps trying to shove Edge down everyone's throats just like they shoved their terrible update process that takes over a computer just when you are right in the middle of something important, that suddenly doesn't respond normally, they don't even give you the courtesy of telling you before hand. Oh for the days of XP where you had complete control over when updates installed. Why can't they go back to that?
