Another option is for the user, prior to uninstalling, to go to
Preferences/Advanced/DesktopIntegrationn and uncheck all the boxes.
This will effectively reset the registry back to the way it was.
Sean Su wrote:
> I know of one way users can reset the associations to the system default
> (meaning to IE). It's not too straight forward, but here are the steps:
>
> 1) under IE, select View|Internet options. Or in the Control Panels,
> run Internet Options
> 2) tab over the Programs tab
> 3) click on the botton checkbox "Internet Explorer should check to see
> whether it is the default browser"
> 4) Quit IE altogether (if it's running).
> 5) launch IE and click on the "Yes" button.
>
> If anyone else knows of a eaiser and possibly better way, please let me
> know too.
>
> Dawn Endico wrote:
>
>> Dan Veditz wrote:
>>
>>> The problem is that the file associations are set by the browser
>>> itself and
>>> not the installer, so the uninstaller doesn't know about it.
>>>
>>> From the message below the OS was asking for Netscape, not Mozilla.
>>> The file
>>> types mention Mozilla, but is that something you really want each
>>> distribution to set differently? It could be done I suppose.
>>
>>
>>
>> Yes, that's really what I want. I'm getting more and more mail
>> from people who uninstalled netscape 6 complaining about broken
>> jpegs looking for mozilla. I'm sure the only reason they mail
>> mozilla.org is because the file association says 'mozilla' and
>> not because they ever heard of mozilla.org before.
>>
>>
>>
