New Windows driver blocks software from changing default web browser
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Microsoft is now using a Windows driver to prevent users from changing the configured Windows 10 and Windows 11 default browser through software or by manually modifying the Registry.
Who would want to change it, after all?
* changing it not using the "official" GUI. I can't really feel bad for losing the ability to change via the Registry, but I won't turn down an opportunity to poke the bear(s) I'm also waiting for the news when someone inevitably finds a flaw in the driver that lets them take over Windows
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Microsoft is now using a Windows driver to prevent users from changing the configured Windows 10 and Windows 11 default browser through software or by manually modifying the Registry.
Who would want to change it, after all?
* changing it not using the "official" GUI. I can't really feel bad for losing the ability to change via the Registry, but I won't turn down an opportunity to poke the bear(s) I'm also waiting for the news when someone inevitably finds a flaw in the driver that lets them take over Windows
Kent Sharkey wrote:
I'm also waiting for the news when someone inevitably finds a flaw in the driver that lets them take over Windows
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Microsoft is now using a Windows driver to prevent users from changing the configured Windows 10 and Windows 11 default browser through software or by manually modifying the Registry.
Who would want to change it, after all?
* changing it not using the "official" GUI. I can't really feel bad for losing the ability to change via the Registry, but I won't turn down an opportunity to poke the bear(s) I'm also waiting for the news when someone inevitably finds a flaw in the driver that lets them take over Windows
Kent Sharkey wrote:
or by manually modifying the Registry
So is the registry no longer the control center, and there is a new, 'hidden' registry that will control this? If so, I would not be surprised with MS's often brain-dead decisions.
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Kent Sharkey wrote:
or by manually modifying the Registry
So is the registry no longer the control center, and there is a new, 'hidden' registry that will control this? If so, I would not be surprised with MS's often brain-dead decisions.
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I think it's another one of their, "driver watches the registry key and undoes any manual changes"
TTFN - Kent
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I think it's another one of their, "driver watches the registry key and undoes any manual changes"
TTFN - Kent
Windows will soon be a Rube Goldberg OS of interlocking drivers! :laugh:
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Microsoft is now using a Windows driver to prevent users from changing the configured Windows 10 and Windows 11 default browser through software or by manually modifying the Registry.
Who would want to change it, after all?
* changing it not using the "official" GUI. I can't really feel bad for losing the ability to change via the Registry, but I won't turn down an opportunity to poke the bear(s) I'm also waiting for the news when someone inevitably finds a flaw in the driver that lets them take over Windows
What an outrage, and a naked attempt to FORCE people to use edge and bing even against their wishes.
The difficult we do right away... ...the impossible takes slightly longer.
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I think it's another one of their, "driver watches the registry key and undoes any manual changes"
TTFN - Kent
And a scheduled task to check that the driver hasn't been disabled... The more they try to block "malware" (such as non-Microsoft browsers) from changing the default browser, they more they start to emulate malware themselves. :sigh: (I'm sure Nietzsche would have something to say about that...)
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined." - Homer
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Microsoft is now using a Windows driver to prevent users from changing the configured Windows 10 and Windows 11 default browser through software or by manually modifying the Registry.
Who would want to change it, after all?
* changing it not using the "official" GUI. I can't really feel bad for losing the ability to change via the Registry, but I won't turn down an opportunity to poke the bear(s) I'm also waiting for the news when someone inevitably finds a flaw in the driver that lets them take over Windows
We often do that... no customer records are created unless they are created by this customer.create(). On top of that we're making this one private and you'll actually have to use the builder pattern if you want a customer object that isn't fully loaded directly from a backing store. It's 100% reasonable to have a "single point of contact" as a matter of systems design whether that system is even software. I get the consternation, agitation, exasperation, and irritation of some of their anticompetitive stuff. Regrettably, those cause collateral damage to what should be totally sane practice on the part of MSFT. Like the whole right not knowing what the left is doing stuff sometimes simply because it was once dictated they shouldn't as a matter of fairness. So fairness dictated we get unbelievable shortcomings in systems interfaces because some genius authoritarian dictated those teams couldn't legally collaborate?
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Windows will soon be a Rube Goldberg OS of interlocking drivers! :laugh:
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