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I've seen IE launch itself at times after a reboot. When the OS updates & reboots, a lot of apps take this opportunity to update themselves, or maybe its the de
by la_barba 7y ago
I've seen IE launch itself at times after a reboot. When the OS updates & reboots, a lot of apps take this opportunity to update themselves, or maybe its the default behavior on system boot, who knows. After the update they decide to send you to their website - but they fuck up the API call and so IE just shows the default homepage.
- skrebbel 7y agoBut why IE? Why not Edge? IE hasn't been the default browser for years. And iirc Edge shows some shitty news feed "new tab" screen (without ads). It's still crap, but less crap than msn.com :-)
- DuskStar 7y agoThe kind of app that fucks up the API call is probably also the kind that hardcodes IE.
- AaronFriel 7y agoAfter updating to any of the semi-annual releases in the past few years, Edge is what brings up a page to tell you that your computer updated. I think they're just using it as a glorified and guaranteed installed safe to run HTML viewer. IE does not start up automatically.
- shawnz 7y agoI suspect it actually was Edge and the OP didn't realize
- skrebbel 7y agoAnd the admin had hand-configured msn.com as the Edge start page?
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- la_barba 7y agoIt was IE. I'd have to hand my nerd card in if I couldn't tell the difference :P They probably did some hacky shit like CreateObject("WScript.Shell").Run "cmd /k C:\Progra~1\Intern~1\iexplore.exe" & Blah and then forgot to set Blah, or it used to be set but somehow got unset in a later update script, etc.