[Set Default Portable Browser in Registry (Correctly handles .URL files)]

Hi

forgot my previous comment,

all works fine.

Is only a problem of te uTorrent help file.

thx.

[Set Default Portable Browser in Registry (Correctly handles .URL files)]

 

I wrote this because I was unable to find any working tools on the Internet to correctly change the default browser association in Windows (such as if you want to use a portable edition of a browser).

The problem with all of the other tools on the Internet is that they do not correctly handle .URL files. Since .URL files are text files - they have to be passed to "HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\InternetShortcut" where the URL gets parsed by shdocvw.dll and then passed to HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\http. With other tools - the .URL files would open as text files in the browser instead of opening the actual URL itself. This script does it correctly.

 

 

 

Download here:

http://www.autohotkey.com/board/topic/89803-set-default-browser-in-registry-correctly-handles-url-files/

 

Silent mode: If no command line arguments will show GUI. Will run in silent mode if argument passed to it on command line. Silent mode if successful does not write anything to command line / stdout (Autohotkey does not natively support writing to stdio)- if you are running in silent mode and the utility runs without any popups or warning dialogs - then the change was successful.

Silent mode example: DefaultBrowserInRegistry.exe "D:\PortableApps\GoogleChromePortable\GoogleChromePortable.exe"

 

This Great!!

 

 

but a small question:

when I open a .chm file is not displayed correctly.

Their submenus are opened in the default browser before established not in the main window.

You observed this strange behavior as due to the script?