NeverShowExt

I did an image recovery and when I restarted I was expecting when I drag from any browser's location bar I got a .html or .htm link and not the hidden url link. What I am getting now is a visible xxx.url and in the registry the:

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\InternetShortcut]
"NeverShowExt"
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Classes\InternetShortcut]
"NeverShowExt"

are both present. In windows seven all I had to do is was associate a different browser to default and then default back to firefox and the .url was hidden again. I can hide this suffix using a program called 'Types' but I would like to do this without an external program. Types is also showing that there is an .url association with IE as is the association in the 'Default Programs > Set Associations' IE icon. The .url in the default program isn't allowing itself to be unchecked all though double clicking an url desktop shortcut will open in Firefox. How do I make Firefox associate the url instead of IE or at least how do I hide the visible url suffix?

May 27th, 2015 1:02pm

Hi,

Ordinarily links open with the default browser so the simplest thing may be to change Firefox to the default browser but use IE on specific links. 

Ether way that requires the none default browser to be open to use the link. 

There is a possible workaround. If the link is a shortcut on the Windows  desktop for instance you could instead of just a url (address) type shortcut make it a shortcut to Firefox executable program and add a space followed by the link to the end of that, it would then open Firefox at that website.

If the registry key doesn't work, in my opinion, we have 2 things that can be tried:

1. Export the [HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT] item from the computer which has the same system edition and has no such issue, then import into this computer.

2. Considering the issue persists in the recovery image, create a new one and do another recovery.

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May 28th, 2015 10:59am

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