Hi Chuck,

> I am new to the list...

Welcome aboard!


> After installing SP2 ... I found that whenever I typed
> anything into the search field and hit enter instead of
> the default browser coming up my Microsoft Word would
> open and display the file "DQSDLaunch.html

Since the default method is to launch the html file using the default
local handler, it's possible that Word is set as the local HTML
parser.

One way to check is to look in the IE settings on the Programs tab.
Alternatively you can look in the registry at HKCR\.html and see what
the 'default' value is. Then look again for the value that appears
there as HKCR\whateveritwas\shell. For example, if it's "htmlfile" dig
to HKCR\htmlfile\shell - then find the 'default' value here and
continue digging to HKCR\htmlfile\shell\whateverthatwas\command and
look at the default entry here.

I'm guessing that what is happening is that in SP2's stricter HTML
parsing it sets the default action for HTML files as 'open' and that
effectively changes the behavior from opening the html file in a
browser, to opening it in your default html *editor.*

That's probably good for security but not very nice for us DQSD'ers.

I'm sure SP2 has good reasons for doing this (lots of viruses rely on
IE's default and poor parsing in order to infect you), so you are
better off either changing your default browser to Firefox (the option
to set it as default may fix this) or leaving the launchmode changed
as you describe.

Regards,

Shawn K. Hall
http://ReliableAnswers.com/

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