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Windows 10 forced update KB 3135173 changes browser and other defaults
InfoWorld ^ | Feb 16, 2016 | Woody Leonhard

Posted on 02/22/2016 7:05:41 PM PST by Utilizer

If you have Chrome as the default browser on your Windows 10 computer, you'd better check to make sure Microsoft didn't hijack it last week and set Edge as your new default. The same goes for any PDF viewer: A forced cumulative update also reset PDF viewing to Edge on many PCs.

Do you use IrfanView, Acdsee, Photoshop Express, or Elements? The default photo app may have been reset to -- you guessed it -- the Windows Photos app. Music? Video? Microsoft may have swooped down and changed you over to Microsoft Party apps, all in the course of last week's forced cumulative update KB 3135173 .

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TOPICS: Computers/Internet
KEYWORDS: microsoft; win10; windows; winupdates
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Dunno how I missed this one. All 'doze Win10 users beware!
1 posted on 02/22/2016 7:05:41 PM PST by Utilizer
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To: Utilizer

Socialists gotta keep pushing for more control.


2 posted on 02/22/2016 7:06:55 PM PST by DiogenesLamp ("of parents owing allegiance to no other sovereignty.")
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To: Utilizer

I have windows but thinking to change to linux. Is MS Word and Publisher compatible with linux?


3 posted on 02/22/2016 7:09:20 PM PST by Fungi
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To: Utilizer
Fedora Linux

Try it, you just might like it.
4 posted on 02/22/2016 7:10:53 PM PST by VitacoreVision
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To: Utilizer

A forced cumulative update also reset PDF viewing to Edge on many PCs.

Right click, chose Adobe.

But someone who knows this stuff better than me switched me back to IE. I hope I can keep it.


5 posted on 02/22/2016 7:12:31 PM PST by Excellence (Marine mom since April 11, 2014)
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To: Utilizer

I will not install an operating system that has a Key Logger. Period.


6 posted on 02/22/2016 7:13:57 PM PST by microgood
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To: Excellence

There are numerous reports of this update failing to install, entirely. My Window 10 test machine is one of them - it has failed to complete this update 6 times so far.


7 posted on 02/22/2016 7:15:49 PM PST by DJ Frisat (uRUB)
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To: Fungi

No but there are Linux equivalents that work in similar fashions and they can read your saved files with no problems. You can do a web search about such things, starting with the LibreOffice and OpenOffice suites to get you started.

Many DeskTop Publishing (DTP) programs in Linux as well. Have fun! :)


8 posted on 02/22/2016 7:16:53 PM PST by Utilizer (Bacon A'kbar! - In world today are only peaceful people, and the muzrims trying to kill them)
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To: VitacoreVision

*laugh* I already run Linux, mate. Several versions as a matter of fact. Debian-based, however, not RedHat-based is what I prefer.


9 posted on 02/22/2016 7:18:14 PM PST by Utilizer (Bacon A'kbar! - In world today are only peaceful people, and the muzrims trying to kill them)
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To: Utilizer

Rotten bastards. I have win10 on one throwaway ancient laptop. I will not install on any of my important machines, just based on this type of nonsense alone. So irritated by their tin-eared decisions for years.


10 posted on 02/22/2016 7:18:51 PM PST by catbertz
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To: Excellence

Just a personal opinion (albeit shared by many) but IE is not a recommended choice.

YMMV.


11 posted on 02/22/2016 7:19:54 PM PST by Utilizer (Bacon A'kbar! - In world today are only peaceful people, and the muzrims trying to kill them)
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To: Utilizer

I wasn’t targeting you explicitly. :-p

I use CentOS Linux at work and Fedora Linux at home.


12 posted on 02/22/2016 7:20:42 PM PST by VitacoreVision
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To: Fungi

No, but Open Office and LibreOffice are available. There are some of these open source programs that can read and write MS compatible file formats.


13 posted on 02/22/2016 7:24:25 PM PST by mak5
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To: Utilizer

My son updated to Windows 10 and was not able to make it work with some software programs. Fortunately, he was able to uninstall Windows 10 and go back to what he had, which had worked perfectly.

I have a working Windows system and have ignored all of the offers to update to Windows 10. Had a forced Windows 10 update changed some of the programs I use on a daily basis to Microsoft programs I’ve never heard of before, I would be spitting mad. No Windows 10 for me, thank you all the same.


14 posted on 02/22/2016 7:25:37 PM PST by rustbucket
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To: dayglored

Ping!


15 posted on 02/22/2016 7:25:59 PM PST by Utilizer (Bacon A'kbar! - In world today are only peaceful people, and the muzrims trying to kill them)
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To: Utilizer

I use Chrome Browser and the update made absolutely NO CHANGE to default browser (still Chrome) nor any changes to IrfanView.

There’s a LOT of WIN10 mis-information being disseminated.


16 posted on 02/22/2016 7:30:39 PM PST by newfreep (TRUMP & <S>Cruz</S> 2016 - "Evil succeeds when good men do nothing" - Edmund Burke)
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To: Utilizer

You must comply. Or shortly. Eventually they say you will not be able to refuse updates.


17 posted on 02/22/2016 7:31:03 PM PST by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; Not averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: Utilizer

On one of my older computers it killed Firefox altogether


18 posted on 02/22/2016 7:33:38 PM PST by butlerweave
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To: Utilizer

Do these alternative programs have the same capabilities as MS Word and Publisher? Thank you.


19 posted on 02/22/2016 7:35:53 PM PST by Fungi
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To: Utilizer

You can change those auto updates in certain versions of 10, and I think there are other workarounds for those stuck with these force fed auto update.

Microsoft will not be making many friends with this little change.


20 posted on 02/22/2016 7:37:52 PM PST by dragnet2 (Diversion and evasion are tools of deceit)
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