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Windows Browser Choice

Well another idiot in the EU has decided to force their will on people yet again. Microsoft has been forced to push out a totally idiotic update http://support.microsoft.com/kb/976002 popping up an option screen forcing the user to select a browser...

If a user is not intelligent enough to simply install their own browsers then they probably are going to want to be left well alone and on the default browser.

I already have the browsers I want installed so in an attempt to remove the idiot screen I tried to install the latest version of IE8 only to be informed that my installed version was newer... nice

To ensure it did not pop up again I did the following: -

Click Start (AKA the stupid windows logo in a circle) then run (XP) or the search box... on Shista and type "msconfig" and press enter.

In the window that appears go to the startup tab and remove the wretched waste of time (look in the command column for browserchoice.exe) from the list by unticking it and pressing apply. As it's M$ it will want to restart because you have made a tiny minor change.

Unfortunately the executable itself appears to be un-deletable even for the admin user.. and there is no standard un-install.