From: Please@dont.try   
      
   Continuing top posting:   
   I thought OE was a part of IE, so then I'd bet you didn't delete IE, and   
   just mothballed it. Look for iexplore.exe on your drive and make it your   
   default. Then reverse the whole proceedure.   
      
   ++ wrote:   
   > Thanks ever so much.  Will read it all.I already tried removing   
   > Firefox as my default and then going back in and choosing it as my   
   > default again but it returned the message that dispite my effforts to   
   > undefault it, that is was my default.   
   >   
   > HVS wrote:   
   >   
   >> 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.   
      
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