How to open Internet Explorer instead of Edge

Question

hi.

each time i click on Internet Explorer, Windows 10 forced to open Edge instead which is rather annoying. Under normal circumstances, browsing using Edge is fine with me. But on my trading platform, specific function doesn't work under Edge. Contacted broker house, was told to use IE instead.

anyone can shade some light on this?

Answer 1

Just happened to me. Accidentally clicked one of those annoying 'please change to edge' buttons when I was distracted. To solve :

In Edge, click the three dots (ellipsis) in the top right hand corner,

then select Settings, then select Default Browser.

There is then a heading "Let Internet Explorer open sites in Microsoft Edge". In my case this had been switched to 'Always' - I switched it to 'Never' even though this isn't the recommended setting.

Then I closed Edge and opened Internet Explorer without issue.

Hope this helps some folks.

Answer 2

I just had the same issue. I opened up edge first. Go to settings on the right top. Scroll down to the settings again on the drop down. When that comes up you'll see on the left of the screen a few different options. I believe the 7th one down is the option Default Browser. Click on that and on the right side a few options will come up. On the second option down it'll give you a choice to allow edge to open and all IE, or only when the IE can't open a page, and Edge can always open even if you click on IE. I put mine on only if IE can't open the page. Then I restarted my laptop. It now works with no issues.

Answer 3

My experience is the same as yours. During a period of distraction, I accidentally clicked one of those annoying 'please change to edge' buttons. Solve the following: 

Click the three dots (ellipses) in the top right hand corner, 

choose Settings, and choose Default Browser.

Alternatively, follow the link for "Let Microsoft Edge open Internet Explorer sites". Although it isn't the recommended setting, in my case the setting was 'Always', 

so I had to switch it to 'Never'.

My Internet Explorer opened without issue after I closed Edge.

That should help a few people.

Answer 4

I understand, did my steps in the article not worked?

Answer 5

You steps required first i must be able to open internet explorer before i could change the setting of internet explorer.

The problem i am facing is, i can't open internet explorer, let along change its settings.

Each time i double click internet explorer, Edge gets opened! I haven't even key in the web URL.

You see my problem now.