[ale] [OT] Odd XP Behavior

[Geoffrey]

Jonathan Glass (IBB) wrote:
> My intention is simply to share an odd experience with WinXP (which I
> know most of you don't really like), but which I have to support.
> <put on flame suit>
> I'm running XP Pro at home to learn how to support it.  I setup my
> account the way I like it (Mozilla, eudora, the gimp, cygwin,
> OpenOffice, etc) with all my applications being the default.  No
> problem, everything worked fine.  I setup my wife's account, and when
> she logged on, IE prompted her if it should be the default browser, and
> of course she clicked "OK".  Now IE is MY default browser, and will NOT
> let me change it back to Mozilla!  Stupid M$ crap.

I find it highly unlikely that it was stupid, but rather intentional...

> </remove flame suit>
> 
> Thanks
> 
> Jonathan Glass
> 
> 
> 
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I didn't have to buy my radio from a specific company to listen
to FM, why doesn't that apply to the Internet (anymore...)?


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