New Vista profiles not getting default program for HTTP or HTTPS

[HankArnold]

I am in the process of rolling out some donated Lenovo ThinkCentre M58P computers at the Hospice I support.

All these computers will do is launch an IE page that will call up a Citrix receiver to connect to a vendor Citrix farm. I put a shortcut to the URL on the "Public" desktop and give everyone full access to it.

When I get everything set up with the starting administrator account, everything works, including the IE shortcut.

However, when I create a new user profile, launching the shortcut results in a message saying it can't find the appropriate app. I determined that the problem is that, in any new profile other than the first one, there is no default program assigned to "HTTP" or HTTPS". If I assign IE as the default, everyting works. Obviously, this is no good.

Any ideas why this might be happening and/or a way to set the default globally?

TIA,
Hank Arnold (MVP)

 

[HankArnold]

Have you looked in

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\Shell\ Associations\UrlAssociations\ subkeys http/https/ftp etc

MS changed the way default apps were set from vista onwards as other browsers kept breaking stuff

This article may help http://newoldthing.wordpress.com/20...owsers-know-that-its-not-the-default-browser/

You may have to set the default browser key too here http://stackoverflow.com/questions/...y-for-check-whether-ie-is-the-default-browser

Thanks. I'll check it out. I think, though, that the basic problem is that I started with a base image that the college had on the computers. I uninstalled all the apps that I didn't want on it. That included Chrome. Well, another posting on IT Toolbox group reminded me that uninstalling Chrome can be problematic. A lot of posts refer to registry edits, probably related to the ones you mention. Another approach is to reinstall Chrome and make IE the default.

I'll be checking it out later today. I'll post what worked.

Hank Arnold (MVP)