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Thu 2006-01-12

WWW button nobbled (sometimes)

Filed under: — daniel @ 07:55

My keyboard has a Web button on it, which as you’d expect opens up my web browser.

Like all right-minded people, I have this set up in Windows’ “Set program access and defaults” screen to go to Firefox.

But if I press the button when a Windows Explorer window is open (eg browsing a directory) it goes to IE in that window, instead. Hmmm.

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3 Responses to “WWW button nobbled (sometimes)”

  1. BCB says:

    Try, in IE, going to Tools > Internet Options, |Advanced| and uncheck “Reuse Windows for launching shortcuts”. See if that makes a difference.

    I’m afraid I haven’t a “WWW” button on my keyboard, so I haven’t tested if this makes a difference.

  2. daniel says:

    Tried that, it didn’t help. Thanks though.

  3. BCB says:

    Right. Well I’m out of ideas.

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