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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 ...
To fix it.
HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\.htm
HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\.html
Look at the Default value where it says htmlfile just change to MSEdgeHTM for both .htm and .html and it will work then.
HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\.htm
HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\.html
Look at the Default value where it says htmlfile just change to MSEdgeHTM for both .htm and .html and it will work then.
- This fixed for me, at least for Excel where I was encountering it after IE was disabled. Thanks.
I'm wondering though, wouldn't a deeper fix be to change `HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\htmlfile` itself instead? Maybe that's not possible/feasible. I sure don't know what a better value than `AppUserModelID: Microsoft.InternetExplorer.Default` would be anyway.
