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XP Service Pack Does the Impossible

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the sworn-testimony-may-have-slight-inaccuracies dept.

Peyna writes "This article over at C|net discusses the upcoming Microsoft Windows XP service pack, which will contain the normal bug fixes, but more importantly, will make XP more modular, allowing you to override their default products. I assume this means Internet Explorer and possibly some other apps as well."

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  1. Re:Let's stop all the "now I can install XP" comme by mccalli · · Score: 2, Flamebait
    service pack claims to rectify...issues that the average slashdot reader can solve his/herself. I mean, do we really need help making Netscape the default rather than I.E.?

    Yes.

    You see, you might think that setting Netscape to launch when you click on a hyperlink or double-click an HTML file means you've set the default. What I call setting the default is having the OS itself decide that when an app has programmatically requested an HTML-rendering component, it gets that component from Netscape and not from IE.

    No user intervention can achieve that right now. Not even by a Slashdotter.

    Cheers,
    Ian