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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.
josh_bodner
Setting the Default Browser to IE is irrelevant. These Registry keys are the default on Windows 11 out of the box. IE is still the COMPUTER default for htm and html files.
Default Browser can be over written by an XML but that enforces Edge as the default.
As I said all the user Defaults are already set to Edge. It is the Computer registry that is the problem.
- Ah, out of the box is a different story. I thought you only meant on upgrade, which is a different although still relevant issue, since IE could in theory have still been present on the machines that were being upgraded. Out of the box, IE should be gone though, so I'll definitely ask about that.
- josh_bodner
Look at the Default value in HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\.htm and HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\.html on a Windows 11 computer fresh build.
It says htmlfile too.
Definitely a bug.
We have also disabled IE with policy so it opens Edge if you click iexplore.exe but that doesn't fix this.