Hence, it has made Microsoft Edge as the default browser in Windows 10, displaying it more prominently compared to any other browser, including its own Internet Explorer.
What is happening with the release of Windows 10 is that Microsoft wants computer users to get started with its new Microsoft Edge browser. However, Microsoft Edge is a totally new browser from Microsoft and it is not the same as Internet Explorer that you were so used to for all these years. Some computer users think of Microsoft Edge as a new version of Internet Explorer and start wondering as to why it is so different and at times difficult compared to the good old version of Internet Explorer. Any program that called IE directly, though, would bring it right up, as if the block was not there, and a lot of programs did do that, since IE was virtually guaranteed to be on all Windows systems, and would render everything in a known (but nonstandard) way.Apart from this, you may also find Internet Explorer browser missing or removed from the taskbar of your computer, in case it was upgraded to Windows 10 from an earlier versions of Windows operating system (Windows 7 or 8).
I already had something else set as the default browser, so anything that simply called the default already pulled up Mozilla or Firefox (I do not remember which I was using at the time). It was a deeply cynical ploy that MS engaged in in order to corner the browser market, and now that IE is all but dead and MS is an also-ran in the browser market, Windows users are still paying the price for Microsoft’s anticompetitive plot, in terms of legacy technical debt.Īfter the eventual settlement between the US government and MS, I tried the IE blocking thing in XP, and it hardly had any effect at all. It’s better just to have an OS that does not have a browser embedded so deeply. That thought was what led me to abandon the practice. Of course, that doesn’t mean that the alternate copies of files (possibly older, less up-to-date ones) in WinSxS were not quietly being used. I did have to restore ieproxy.dll to get things to work okay, if I recall, but otherwise, I never noticed it was gone. After disabling IE in the Windows 7 settings way back when, I tried forcibly removing the Internet Explorer directories from \Program Files and Program Files (x86) when I ran Windows 7, along with the SFC backups (otherwise they would just come right back).
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