How do I make Windows 7 x64 use IE x86 instead of IE x64?

If I click on a link in a NG posting or Favorites folder, my computer
opens it with the 64 bit version of IE. I want it to use IE x86 by default.
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"Dave "Crash" Dummy" wrote in message news:iqrlk9$8tq$...

If I click on a link in a NG posting or Favorites folder, my computer
opens it with the 64 bit version of IE. I want it to use IE x86 by default.
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Crash


Have you tried starting the 32-bit version and setting it as the default in
Internet Options?

Tom Lake

Tom Lake wrote:
>> "Dave "Crash" Dummy" wrote in message news:iqrlk9$8tq$...
>>
>> If I click on a link in a NG posting or Favorites folder, my computer
>> opens it with the 64 bit version of IE. I want it to use IE x86 by default.

> Have you tried starting the 32-bit version and setting it as the default in
> Internet Options?

Yes. (Internet Explorer x64 cannot be the default browser.)
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Crash

"Facts are stubborn things, but statistics are more pliable."
~ Laurence J. Peter ~

Hi, Crash.

Don't you have that backwards? Win7 x64 defaults to 32-bit IE - and can't
be changed. At least, not by us mere mortals.

(My other Reply, which I posted a few minutes ago, was based on the
assumption that you were trying to make 64-bit the default - which I don't
think is possible without divine intervention.)

RC
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R. C. White, CPA
San Marcos, TX

Microsoft Windows MVP (2002-2010)
Windows Live Mail 2011 (Build 15.4.3508.1109) in Win7 Ultimate x64 SP1


"Dave "Crash" Dummy" wrote in message news:iqrlk9$8tq$...

If I click on a link in a NG posting or Favorites folder, my computer
opens it with the 64 bit version of IE. I want it to use IE x86 by default.
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Crash

On 5/16/2011, R. C. White posted:
> Hi, Crash.

> Don't you have that backwards? Win7 x64 defaults to 32-bit IE - and can't be
> changed. At least, not by us mere mortals.

> (My other Reply, which I posted a few minutes ago, was based on the
> assumption that you were trying to make 64-bit the default - which I don't
> think is possible without divine intervention.)

> RC
> --
> R. C. White, CPA
> San Marcos, TX
>
> Microsoft Windows MVP (2002-2010)
> Windows Live Mail 2011 (Build 15.4.3508.1109) in Win7 Ultimate x64 SP1


> "Dave "Crash" Dummy" wrote in message news:iqrlk9$8tq$...

> If I click on a link in a NG posting or Favorites folder, my computer
> opens it with the 64 bit version of IE. I want it to use IE x86 by default.

I just tried the obvious.

I started iexplorer 64-bit by clicking on it in the Program Files
directory, and verified by help-about that it was the 64-bit version.

I shut it down and clicked on a link in a new post. The IE window that
appeared identified itself as the 32-bit version; more precisely, it
*didn't* identify itself as the 64-bit version :-)

But then I had a thought, so I killed Mr 32-bit & restarted the 64-bit
version. This time the link showed up in that window, the already
running 64-bit IE. I checked with About again, just to make sure.

I can't think of anything useful to say about that...

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Gene E. Bloch (Stumbling Bloch)

"Dave \"Crash\" Dummy" <> wrote in
news:iqrlk9$8tq$:

> If I click on a link in a NG posting or Favorites folder, my computer
> opens it with the 64 bit version of IE. I want it to use IE x86 by
> default.

Don't know about the Favorites folder but it looks like you're using
Thunderbird for newsgroups. I don't know TBird either but does it have a
setting for "content viewers" or the like? Perhaps you have to point this
at the proper location for IE x86.

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Pat

email: valid would be net

Dave "Crash" Dummy wrote:
> If I click on a link in a NG posting or Favorites folder, my computer
> opens it with the 64 bit version of IE. I want it to use IE x86 by
> default.

These two threads have become too tangled to reply to anybody, so I'll
just give a progress report. Using the tip I found to acquire ownership
of the 64 bit Internet Explorer program, I renamed it "iexplore64.exe."
I haven't crashed in flames, and that seems to have solved the problem.
Time will tell
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Crash

Committed to the search for intraterrestrial intelligence.

On 5/16/2011, Gene E. Bloch posted:
> On 5/16/2011, R. C. White posted:
>> Hi, Crash.

>> Don't you have that backwards? Win7 x64 defaults to 32-bit IE - and can't
>> be changed. At least, not by us mere mortals.

>> (My other Reply, which I posted a few minutes ago, was based on the
>> assumption that you were trying to make 64-bit the default - which I don't
>> think is possible without divine intervention.)

>> RC
>> --
>> R. C. White, CPA
>> San Marcos, TX
>>
>> Microsoft Windows MVP (2002-2010)
>> Windows Live Mail 2011 (Build 15.4.3508.1109) in Win7 Ultimate x64 SP1


>> "Dave "Crash" Dummy" wrote in message news:iqrlk9$8tq$...

>> If I click on a link in a NG posting or Favorites folder, my computer
>> opens it with the 64 bit version of IE. I want it to use IE x86 by default.

> I just tried the obvious.

> I started iexplorer 64-bit by clicking on it in the Program Files directory,
> and verified by help-about that it was the 64-bit version.

Well, I omitted an important fact from the above. Such a dolt...At
least the post passed the spell check :-)

After I started IE 64, I went to settings and made it the default
browser. *Then* I did the rest of the tests I described below.

> I shut it down and clicked on a link in a new post. The IE window that
> appeared identified itself as the 32-bit version; more precisely, it *didn't*
> identify itself as the 64-bit version :-)

> But then I had a thought, so I killed Mr 32-bit & restarted the 64-bit
> version. This time the link showed up in that window, the already running
> 64-bit IE. I checked with About again, just to make sure.

> I can't think of anything useful to say about that...

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Gene E. Bloch (Stumbling Bloch)

Hi, Gene.

> After I started IE 64, I went to settings and made it the default browser.
> *Then* I did the rest of the tests I described below.

It's easy to make IE the default browser. but it's not so easy to specify
IE x64!

Unless you've found some magic that has eluded me, making "IE" the default
means "IE x86" - "NOT IE x64".

Or did I misunderstand what you said?

The Subject of this thread is backwards: Win7 x64 DOES default to the x86
version of IE, not the x64 version.

RC
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R. C. White, CPA
San Marcos, TX

Microsoft Windows MVP (2002-2010)
Windows Live Mail 2011 (Build 15.4.3508.1109) in Win7 Ultimate x64 SP1


"Gene E. Bloch" wrote in message news:...

On 5/16/2011, Gene E. Bloch posted:
> On 5/16/2011, R. C. White posted:
>> Hi, Crash.

>> Don't you have that backwards? Win7 x64 defaults to 32-bit IE - and
>> can't be changed. At least, not by us mere mortals.

>> (My other Reply, which I posted a few minutes ago, was based on the
>> assumption that you were trying to make 64-bit the default - which I
>> don't think is possible without divine intervention.)

>> RC


>> "Dave "Crash" Dummy" wrote in message news:iqrlk9$8tq$...

>> If I click on a link in a NG posting or Favorites folder, my computer
>> opens it with the 64 bit version of IE. I want it to use IE x86 by
>> default.

> I just tried the obvious.

> I started iexplorer 64-bit by clicking on it in the Program Files
> directory, and verified by help-about that it was the 64-bit version.

Well, I omitted an important fact from the above. Such a dolt...At
least the post passed the spell check :-)

After I started IE 64, I went to settings and made it the default
browser. *Then* I did the rest of the tests I described below.

> I shut it down and clicked on a link in a new post. The IE window that
> appeared identified itself as the 32-bit version; more precisely, it
> *didn't* identify itself as the 64-bit version :-)

> But then I had a thought, so I killed Mr 32-bit & restarted the 64-bit
> version. This time the link showed up in that window, the already running
> 64-bit IE. I checked with About again, just to make sure.

> I can't think of anything useful to say about that...

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Gene E. Bloch (Stumbling Bloch)

R. C. White wrote:
> Hi, Gene.
>
>> After I started IE 64, I went to settings and made it the default
>> browser. *Then* I did the rest of the tests I described below.
>
> It's easy to make IE the default browser. but it's not so easy to
> specify IE x64!
>
> Unless you've found some magic that has eluded me, making "IE" the
> default means "IE x86" - "NOT IE x64".
>
> Or did I misunderstand what you said?
>
> The Subject of this thread is backwards: Win7 x64 DOES default to
> the x86 version of IE, not the x64 version.

The subject of this thread is NOT backward. I had a problem with Windows
7 x64 opening pages with IEx64 instead of IEx86 even though IEx86 was
set to be the default. This didn't happen all the time, only some of the
time for unknown reasons. I suspect it has something to do with the
InternetExplorer object being used in some scripts I run. Possibly
scripts run in a 64 bit environment use the IEx64 engine, and that
becomes the default. Anyway, I renamed the 64 bit iexplore.exe file to
iexplore84.exe, and that seems to have solved the problem. And yes, the
scripts still work.
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Crash

"When you want to fool the world, tell the truth."
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