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URGENT BUG Registry Classes Root htmlfile, .htm, .html, etc STILL point to IE in 21H2 and Win11
Hi, We support 80,000 workstations that have been upgraded to 21H2. Users are getting errors when opening Outlook or Word links that the .htm and .html files from HKEY Classes Root are still trying ...
Just to clarify, have any policies been applied to those machines to set the default browser? If there was in the past, for example to set them to IE, then you would need to update those policies to set it to Edge: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/deployedge/edge-default-browser.
Hi,
I have faced exactly the same problem. I found that it comes once uninstalled / disabled via features the IE. And actually it does not matter even you have set Edge as default browser before that.
As the fact I was reverted back to IE temporary, until it will be fixed by MS and the issue has been resolved So, it really seams that many other things in windows still pointing to IE, you might see it in registry, like:
"CommandId"="IE.Protocol"
"CommandId"="IE.File"