Hi
I have four user accounts on my XP machine some with Admin rights some with out

I want to use a non-MS browser and non-MS email package (Mozilla). Which works fine, but doing so changes the default (and Start Menu entires) email/browser packages for all the other users. If they then run IE/Outlook and accept them as the defaul application then when I next log in Mozilla is no longer my default. And back and forth we go

Is there any way to get XP to have totally speperate default Internet EMail and Browser applications for different users? I wasted a night swapping between accounts and fiddling with RegEdit to no avail

Regards
paul

Paul,

Unfortunately, it's a per-machine setting. Or, it's not possible to make it user-specific, without a third-party utility. However, XP allows you register an Internet Browser or E-mail Client With the Windows XP Start Menu on Per-User basis:
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=297878

--
Ramesh - Microsoft MVP
Windows XP Shell
http://www.mvps.org/sramesh2k


"Taffy" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message news:6D8C40D8-F995-4B65-BCC4-(E-Mail Removed)...
Hi,
I have four user accounts on my XP machine some with Admin rights some with out.

I want to use a non-MS browser and non-MS email package (Mozilla). Which works fine, but doing so changes the default (and Start Menu entires) email/browser packages for all the other users. If they then run IE/Outlook and accept them as the defaul application then when I next log in Mozilla is no longer my default. And back and forth we go.

Is there any way to get XP to have totally speperate default Internet EMail and Browser applications for different users? I wasted a night swapping between accounts and fiddling with RegEdit to no avail.

Regards,
paul

Ramesh
thanks for the reply. Anybody know if this is likely to be fixed in XP SP2?

I did try setting things up via the Start Menu however, these get clobbered too. Guess I'll have to look into writting something to update the registry every time a user logs in ... won't help if two user accounts are logged in and the fast switch feature is used, but thankfully that doesn't happen much on my machine

Pau
----- Ramesh [MVP] wrote: ----

Paul

Unfortunately, it's a per-machine setting. Or, it's not possible to make it user-specific, without a third-party utility. However, XP allows you register an Internet Browser or E-mail Client With the Windows XP Start Menu on Per-User basis
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=29787

--
Ramesh - Microsoft MV
Windows XP Shel
http://www.mvps.org/sramesh2

>>Anybody know if this is likely to be fixed in XP SP2?

Don't think so. But, it might be achieved by overriding the protocols and http, ftp handlers thru HKCU.

--
Ramesh - Microsoft MVP
Windows XP Shell
http://www.mvps.org/sramesh2k


"Taffy" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message news:928683B3-1144-4184-B2A9-(E-Mail Removed)...
Ramesh,
thanks for the reply. Anybody know if this is likely to be fixed in XP SP2?

I did try setting things up via the Start Menu however, these get clobbered too. Guess I'll have to look into writting something to update the registry every time a user logs in ... won't help if two user accounts are logged in and the fast switch feature is used, but thankfully that doesn't happen much on my machine.

Paul
----- Ramesh [MVP] wrote: -----

Paul,

Unfortunately, it's a per-machine setting. Or, it's not possible to make it user-specific, without a third-party utility. However, XP allows you register an Internet Browser or E-mail Client With the Windows XP Start Menu on Per-User basis:
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=297878

--
Ramesh - Microsoft MVP
Windows XP Shell
http://www.mvps.org/sramesh2k