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So the latest Edge update silently changed my PDF default app from FoxIt Reader to the Edge browser.
And when I went to change it back, it gave me a "Are you sure you want to" prompt.
Has this happened to anyone else?
The difficult we do right away...
...the impossible takes slightly longer.
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I use Brave.
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Yes, it has to me. I use Samatra, FWIW, so I noticed it too.
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What irritates me about Windows updates, is that it changes some of my preferences / settings. We have 3 printers on our home network. She has her own paintjet, so do I, and we share a laserjet for everyday print jobs. The laserjet is my default printer, except after an update. Then my default printer is her paintjet, for which I don't even have a driver installed. Yuck! 
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I wear a mask and use Chrome. 
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Got a condome on your router, eh?
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well according to Captain Faucci, you need to wear 2 masks now.
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WTF?? . . . presumably one for his mouth and the other for his ___ (Rhymes with Pass)?
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Faucci...this is the guy who went from:
March of last year: Don't use masks; it's pointless for the general population. Leave them to doctors and nurses.
A few months later: Everybody should wear masks. We were just worried back then about a shortage.
Now: Double and triple layers.
I'm not part of "that group", but this is easy to see through: Now that everyone's shifted their manufacturing to producing them, there's an oversupply and we need to sell more so nobody's sitting on a huge inventory.
If double-masks made sense, why haven't medical staff been wearing them that way since forever?
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Prolly not, got a host file installed. Can't remember the request.
Even if so; that's just a "yes" to the prompt?
Bastard Programmer from Hell
"If you just follow the bacon Eddy, wherever it leads you, then you won't have to think about politics." -- Some Bell.
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Happened to me too.
Edge isn't the virus though: MS Update is the virus 8(
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I use it as well, and for the most part it's a good browser.
But in the long run, it would serve us all best to go back to Firefox.
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Your message was duplicated, I have deleted the other copy.
M.D.V.
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
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That's not really about edge and more about Windows. Edge doesn't have the power to change default apps on its own.
I do enjoy the browser, but do hate Windows and its anti-trust behaviors which are not limited to Edge browser. As far as browser is concerned I actually moved to Edge because of Chrome's privacy issues and been happy since, because to me is a better browser overall.
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Fabio Franco wrote: I do enjoy the browser, but do hate Windows and its anti-trust behaviors which are not limited to Edge browser.
Microsoft went through that two decades ago.
Remind me who's being investigated for anti-trust now? And who's curiously missing from that list this time around?
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Yes, it used to regularly happen with Windows Updates. Doesn't seem to any more.
Java, Basic, who cares - it's all a bunch of tree-hugging hippy cr*p
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It's been happening to the computers that I manage for about 2 years now. Our programming code currently requires us to use Adobe although we are in the process of negating that requirement. Microsoft should leave our settings ALONE! It is extremely intrusive and disruptive for them to change/revert settings on an update. I've even experienced Firewall Rules being overwritten during an OS update.
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I used to be a fan of FoxIt. Dropped them when the included spyware optional software was getting more and more invasive, and difficult to avoid during the installer.
I like Sumatra, but on systems that can run Edge, I honestly have no problem sticking with it.
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Windows resets your apps after some updates. This has nothing to do with Edge specifically.
Windows is a virus.
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I refer you to this software, which locks these things in place to some extent: actually quite effective. I think it does it using registry hacks: it's a one-time thing which doesn't install anything:
Stop resetting my apps[^]
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Microsoft keeps trying to shove Edge down everyone's throats just like they shoved their terrible update process that takes over a computer just when you are right in the middle of something important, that suddenly doesn't respond normally, they don't even give you the courtesy of telling you before hand.
Oh for the days of XP where you had complete control over when updates installed.
Why can't they go back to that?
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A lot has happened to me in the last 4 days. As I was working Wednesday just after lunch, I felt a tightness across my chest and noticed that my shoulders and upper arms had gone numb. The missus drove me to the emergency room and after sitting in the waiting room for 3 hours, they finally confirmed that I had indeed suffered a 'mild' heart attack and I was admitted and put on a nitro drip.
The next morning I received 2 stints, with a third scheduled in a few weeks. I'm finally back home and getting caught up on work as well as adjusting to new diet/meds/routines. Getting old sucks, but it sure beats the alternative. Anyways, it's good to be back! 
If you are over 50 and haven't had your heart checked, do yourself a favor and get it done. I have been the healthiest of my siblings, managing until a few years ago to not have any daily medications, then just one miracle heartburn pill. Now I've got a new addition to the kitchen table...a pillbox with AM/PM slots and taking a total of 7 pills each day. This is my new reality.  I'm not complaining, as I understand that it could have ended much differently.
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"Hope is contagious"
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Good advice. Welcome back! and be well.
Real programmers use butterflies
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I'm really glad your wife was bright enough to do that - but if it happens again please, please call for an emergency ambulance: they have experts and kit on board that can make a huge difference to outcomes.
Statistically, only 10% of people who suffer a heart attack outside a hospital survive.
An ambo can improve your odds by at the very least having the right people waiting for your arrival!
Congratulations - and you also move up the vaccination list! 
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OriginalGriff wrote:
Statistically, only 10% of people who suffer a heart attack outside a hospital survive.
An ambo can improve your odds by at the very least having the right people waiting for your arrival!
AIUI the 10% figure is mostly due to heart attacks that stop pumping entirely. Even in cases where the heart itself is recoverable, doing CPR well enough to keep someone revivable long until they can be defibrillated is beyond what most people can do. The latter is why over the last decade the standard method taught to most non-medical professionals is now chest compressions only. The most common failure point is not moving enough blood, and except in sparsely populated areas ambulances can generally arrive fast enough that the supply of O2 in the lungs/blood stream isn't depleted before paramedics are on scene.
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Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
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