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Hiding Explorer
Authored by: dennisbest on Feb 25, '02 11:43:17PM

I use OmniWeb for all of my browsing but still need to use Explorer to test pages, etc. Unfortunately, Explorer keeps claiming ownership of jpgs, gifs, etc. and from time to time when I click on a link in another app Explorer seems to inexplicably re-emerge as my browser of choice.

So I just used Disk Copy to make a 20 meg disk image, copied Explorer to it, and trashed the original Explorer app. I even pasted the e icon on the image and named it Internet Explorer and dropped it into my applications folder.

Now, if I need Explorer I can just double click it and run it from the mounted image. When it disk is not mounted, there is no risk of Explorer sneaking back in as a default for any file type or accidentally launching.



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