Windows 10 Insider Preview 14965 On My Computer 11-17-2016 Question

9 years ago

last modified: 9 years ago

I am so angry with this update. That is because it is trying to force me to use Edge which I do not like at all. Try it every once in awhile and just don't care for it at all. Now, with this newest update, anytime I click on a link in an email I get to an IE screen that just shows the URL addy at the top; that also happens when I use Chrome. With Edge this does not happen. So, thought I would go ahead and use Edge. But I still don't like it. I don't know what to uninstall though, because when I look at the installs it appears that nearly everything was updated on 11-17-2016. And I see nothing that notes the installation of 14965. Do any of you know what I need to delete in order for IE and Chrome to work correctly.

With this update, I am beginning to not care for Microsoft and their tactics at all.

Been trying to resolve this and, so far, no luck. Here is a copy of the string that was loaded on the IE website when I clicked on a link in an email. The whole screen was white except for the string at the very top.

The saga continues. I do have access to IE 11. The problems exists when clicking on links within emails. For example, the one above.

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aputernut

9 years ago

I got rid of IE soon after W10 install and use only Edge and FF only for Java run chat rooms, I like Edge very much and have n/p's at all with it works great quick and efficient.

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Elmer J Fudd
9 years ago
last modified: 9 years ago
It's probably popping up as you describe because Internet Explorer or Edge (it's unclear to me what you're looking at) is set as the default browser.

There's no need to delete anything (and doing so isn't advisable). Start Chrome, go to the Settings section and make it the default browser. That should solve the problem.

It's common behavior whenever a program that competes with others is installed, that it sets itself as the default for certain activities or file types. To the exclusion of others. Microsoft is hardly alone in doing this, most programs do so, it's nothing to get upset about.
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User
9 years ago
Just a thought. Is it possible that there's nothing wrong with the browser, per se...but opening the link is being blocked on purpose by your anti- malware program...or Win itself...indicating that the link isn't safe??? Perhaps you security settings are set on High...allowing for very limited access to links...especially those received via email.

Other than that...I agree about making one or the other of your browsers the default browser. I have Win 7.1 and elect to use Firefox rather than IE so I've made FF my default browser which can be done either through Control Panel>Internet Options...or Control Panel>Default Programs.
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Elmer J Fudd
9 years ago
last modified: 9 years ago
On my PC with Windows 10:

Control Panel - Internet Options.. as with earlier Windows versions, takes you to the settings and preferences pages of Internet Explorer only, the same thing you get to clicking on Internet Options when in the program itself. There's nothing there that relates to other browsers.

Control Panel- Default Programs....as with earlier Windows versions, multiple steps will take the user to a page where very granular and (for a entry level user) very specific and likely confusing settings can be changed for defaults and protocols. The possibility and ease for someone bumbling around to do real damage to behavior by unknowingly making undesirable changes in this area is high.

My suggestion, to check a box in Settings of the desired browser to make it the default one, is very simple and is most unlikely to cause unwanted and unexpected consequences.
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WalnutCreek Zone 7b/8a
Original Author
9 years ago
last modified: 9 years ago
IE is set as the default browser. Still having the problem, which I never had before. Really strange. I am over my initial irritation. Just rolling with the punches. Now, which I click on a link in a newsletter which goes to a blank white page in IE with only a string (as shown above) at the top which is in black, I just copy the relevant info, for example: http://www.favesouthernrecipes.com/Other-Southern-Favorites/Simple-Prosciutto-Wrapped-Stuffed-Peppers, and paste it in the address bar and get the correct info. Just an extra unnecessary step.

Thanks to all for your thoughts/comments.
jane__ny
9 years ago
Put Chrome or Firefox as your default browser. Get IE off. That's where the problem is.

Jane