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Whenever I install a new program, vista always wants to use the original default program. E.g. I have installed firefox and every time firefox loads it asks me whether I want to make it the default program. I always choose yes. Then I close it. The start menu internet has not been changed from internet explorer. I then open firefox again and it asks me the same message. This is true for many applications.

It is the same with Utorrent. I work a lot from home and the only way I manage to get my work done is using a .torrent file to transfer my work to other clients. This always asks me whether i want to make it the default application but I didnt think vista had a default application to use torrents!

Every time I open Firefox in Vista it asks if I want to make it my default browser, and I say yes. It seems to me that Windows security won't let me change my default browser. I have Firefox set as the default browser for the start menu too. What do I have to do to make Firefox and not IE7 my default browser? thanks

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I've been running Vista Ultimate since early December (RTM) with few problems. I have been using Firefox for years with no problems.

That is until last week or so. Now when I start Firefox in Vista I have a few problems:

1. Sometimes Firefox doesn't start at all. The process starts, but the window doesn't launch.

or

2. If I get the window to launch, all my add-on settings have reset themselves, my home page reset itself, and my other settings have reset itself.

Sometimes firefox starts up fine. Other times I encounter one of the two problems listed above.