Setting Default Browser and Email Client in XP

[Arch_Angel]

Does anyone know how to set the default browser and email client on XP on a per user account basis?

It seems if I set the Mozilla browser to be the default browser, it sets it for ALL users who log on to the computer. I want it to be my default browser for my user account. The same goes for the email client.

[deakie]

what about the ms knowledg base...anything turned up there?
i dont know about this one. sorz.

ok a quick check revealed this thingy....

goto add/remove programs
on left, there is set program access and defaults
there are 3 options
microsoft programs
non microsoft proggies and custom....

have a fiddle with that and let me know will ya..... :D

dunno if you can set it up for individual users unless yu are in the users login....

[Arch_Angel]

I know about that section in the add/remove programs. I didn't really know if it would have done it on a per user basis or for all users. I figured it was all users, since it was in the add/remove programs, where it shows you ALL the programs installed on the computer, and not just the programs the user has installed.

I will try it and see, but I doubt it.

[Arch_Angel]

Nope. That didn't work. It set the browser system wide.

I did a google search and found this article: How to Register an Internet Browser or E-mail Client With the Windows XP Start Menu (http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=http://support.microsoft.com:80/support/kb/articles/q297/8/78.asp&NoWebContent=1)

That's the closest I came to setting a default browser on a per user basis.

That article says it is possible to set a browser on a per user basis. But you will have to do some registry hacking to accomplish it.

[deakie]

dam...maybe there is a tweaking proggy out there somewhere which can do all these things for us....we can dream cant we.... :D