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Josh_Carpenter
Brass Contributor
Jun 15, 2020

URL Shortcuts not working in Edge

Good evening   When we used IE11 we use to have shortcuts on all workstations to a specific webpage, this was created by dragging the url from the addressbar to the desktop to create a .website fil...
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joshhuggins
Brass Contributor
Aug 31, 2020

Josh_Carpenter I am having the same issue after I used Windows Settings, Default Apps to set Edge as the default browser after using Firefox as the default previously. Mine look like

 

[InternetShortcut]
URL=https://www.howtogeek.com

 

 

EDIT: Actually I just figured it out. I went into the Settings, Default Apps, then used the link at the bottom for Choose default apps by file type. Scrolled down to URL and set it to 'Internet Browser' with the house icon instead of Edge, and then went back to the Settings, Default Apps and set Edge as the Web browser again and URLs started to open correctly with Edge.

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mchalapetr
Copper Contributor
Jan 14, 2021

joshhuggins 

We experience the same problem and your workaround is probably the best solution yet...

 

EDIT:

I just discovered that this fix doesn't work after restart. Sadly it must be reset every time after restart. Maybe some script could do that after power up.