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Originally Posted by klau25
Hi, I tried to search this but couldn't find an answer. just wondering if anyone can help me to chang opera back as the default browser. whenever i open a link from my email, it would open ie instead. i installed skyfire the other day, and notice it's not working for my diamond so i unstalled it right away. this happened after the uninstallation. I think probably when i unstall skyfire, it assigned ie as the default browser instead. please let me know how to change it back, ie is driving me crazy. haha. thanks.
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I had the same issue (likewise, likely following a botched skyfire install), and after messing around with it for a while today (the opera installer didn't work for me), I've gotten it working by editing the following registry keys (I used CeRegistry editor):
Take a look at HKCR\_htmlfile_Opera and note the defaultIcon and shell\run\command values
Code:
\Windows\OperaL.exe,-131
"\Windows\OperaL.exe" "%1"
Now take a look at the HKCR\http and HKCR\https keys. You'll probably find IExplore entries in those locations; replace with the opera values as above. HKCR\urlfile might be worth changing, too, but just the two above will fix most apps (rss hub, for example).
Fixing Mail requires one more change:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\software\microsoft\shell\rai\:D EFBROWSER
had values set of 0 = "IExplore" and 1 = "iexplore.exe". I changed these to "Opera" and "\Windows\OperaL.exe", respectively. Now the mail links work just fine, too.
There's probably a better way to do that, but it got the job done for me, at least.