can you set anything but microsoft as defaults?

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Netscape asks to be default mail and browser... I say "Yes" it says it
can't change the registry, run change your user so you can change the
registry. Good luck.

I go to the set defaults part of Vista but the only possible programs
listed are &%$@!^%$ Microsoft programs. What is that? You can only
choose among Microsoft programs for your default programs in vista?

I have a single user home computer with home premium. 90% of the time so
far is fighting back all the BS Microsoft sets you up with. Uninstalling
the ads, turning off all the crap that's supposed to protect you. I'm
down to this problem and a couple other things after only 5-6 hours.

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John
 
Does Netscape have an update to be compatible with Vista's registration
scheme? It's a pretty easy one - they would just look up "Default Programs"
on MSDN and go from there.

Applications can't hijack system-wide associations on their startup on Vista
because they don't have admin privileges. That's a user-friendly feature -
MS applications can't do that either. =)
 
Netscape asks to be default mail and browser... I say "Yes" it says it
can't change the registry, run change your user so you can change the
registry. Good luck.

I go to the set defaults part of Vista but the only possible programs
listed are &%$@!^%$ Microsoft programs. What is that? You can only choose
among Microsoft programs for your default programs in vista?
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Don't you know? Microsoft is the only thing that exists in the universe.
Therefore everything you run has to be made by them.
I have a single user home computer with home premium. 90% of the time so
far is fighting back all the BS Microsoft sets you up with. Uninstalling
the ads, turning off all the crap that's supposed to protect you. I'm down
to this problem and a couple other things after only 5-6 hours.
Click to expand...

If you're down to only that in 5-6 hours, you're an effin' whiz! Or you
just haven't found most of the problems yet.
 
Applications can't hijack system-wide associations on their startup on
Vista because they don't have admin privileges. That's a user-friendly
feature - MS applications can't do that either. =)
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User-friendly? I always thought it was supposed to be a good term, not
synonymous with "pain in the butt."
 
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