From: usenet@REMOVETHISwhhvs.co.uk   
      
   On 03 Mar 2008, ++ wrote   
      
   > Problem is, I deleted Internet Explorer, I did dislike it so.  I   
   > kept Outlook Express.   
      
   If you've actually *deleted* Internet Explorer (rather than just   
   the desk-top links to it), you've almost certainly broken your   
   Windows installation.   
      
   (IE is deeply, deeply embedded in Windows; you'd have to have used   
   something like XPLite to rip it out, and it sounds like that's   
   probably not the case.)   
      
   So ocheck on your machine for this file:   
      
   Program Files>Internet Exporer>iexplore.exe   
      
   If you find it, IE's still there (but just hidden) -- s0 either   
   click on it to open it directly, or right-click and choose "Send"   
   to put a shortcut on your desktop to open it later.   
      
   >> If that doesn't work, I know of a freebie utility that forces   
   >> the default to be made which might be worth a last-ditch try.   
      
   > Where can I find Mr. ultility?   
      
   There are two of them;  the one I used some years ago was   
      
   http://www.pc-tools.net/win32/setbrowser/   
      
   This one's also recommended by the Firefox people:   
      
   http://windowsxp.mvps.org/defaultbrowser.htm   
      
   And this is an article on the Mozilla/Firefox support people which   
   will tell you *way* way more than you really want to know about   
   setting the default:   
      
   http://kb.mozillazine.org/Default_browser#Force_Firefox_to_make_its   
   elf_the_default   
      
   HTH.   
      
   --   
   Cheers, Harvey   
   Architectural and topographical historian   
      
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