The fact that today there are a huge number of programs for surfing the Web, probably no one needs to explain. But there is one snag. If one program is installed in the system, you work in it. And if a few? Well, you will not each time call some application to access the World Wide Web. To do this, you need to designate a browser as the default access tool to the Network. For example, consider the "native" Windows application - Internet Explorer.
What does it mean to make the Internet Explorer default browser?
Let's start with the basics. The very concept of “making Internet Explorer the default browser” means that not only for access to the Internet, but also for opening, for example, hyperlinks or documents related to access to the Internet (or simply varieties of HTML format, pictures, audio, etc. .d.), exclusively “native” application will be used, namely Internet Explorer.
In other words, when you click on a hyperlink or double-click on a document, it will open automatically in Internet Explorer.
Ease of use
Before talking about exactly how to make IE the default browser, it’s worth noting the simplicity of the implementation of the actions associated with the program after that.
Most often this is manifested not so much in visiting sites, as when using hyperlinks. So, for example, if there is a text document HTML, Word (or any other program) in which such a hyperlink is present, you must click on it, after holding down the Ctrl key. The result is not long in coming. After Internet Explorer is installed by default by the browser, the opening of the link and the transition to the corresponding resource on the World Wide Web will be carried out automatically. That is, the system will not even offer a choice of program with which to perform this action.
The same goes for HTML documents. With the same double click in the "Explorer" they will open in Internet Explorer. The same applies to audio, video or graphics, however, in this case, making the Internet Explorer browser by default will need to be in a slightly different way than the standard setting. But first things first.
The simplest methods for making the Internet Explorer browser the default
The easiest way to configure such parameters is to use the service menu of the browser itself. How to make the Internet Explorer browser the default in-house in this case? Easy peasy.
In the menu itself, go to the browser properties bar and then use the "Programs" tab. In the first paragraph on the right there is a button, pressing which activates the use of IE as the default program. In addition, you can also use the message output parameter when the program is not used as the main one. Most often this applies to some specific documents.
By the way, you can also access these settings from the standard "Control Panel". The actions remain the same. After that, both sites and web documents will automatically open in Internet Explorer.
Another way is to install programs by default. In this case, the question of how to make the Internet Explorer browser by default is solved exclusively using the "Control Panel", where the program menu is selected, and then the default program installation section is selected. Everything is simple here. We select Internet Explorer from the list of applications and apply the default program usage parameter to it. That's all.
Along the way, you can set the file association (type matching to a given application) and select the desired formats. That's just how useful it would be to assign an association to music, video or graphic files - this is another question.
Naturally, you can play music, and video, and graphics in Internet Explorer. In addition to setting file type associations, you can do even easier. For example, when a menu is opened by right-clicking on a file in the same "Explorer" or in any other file manager, the "Open with ..." command is selected, then Internet Explorer is selected from the list of applications, and a check mark is placed at the bottom opposite the "Use for all files of this type. " Again, if media players or graphic viewers are installed in the system, this process really seems completely irrational.
Conclusion
Here, in fact, we briefly reviewed the question of how to make the Internet Explorer browser the default. Whether the user will use it as the main program or not is up to him. Although many complain about it, it’s worth noting that the latest versions (and especially its successor Edge in Windows 10) show fairly high performance.