"How do you want to open"? STOP ASKING!

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One big annoyance in Windows 8 is this dialog box, which pops up any time some external program wants to launch a browser to display a Web page. I've already answered this question several dozen times, but apparently it doesn't like the answer I keep giving. If I was paranoid, I might think this was a Microsoft conspiracy to force people to use IE, but I'm not that paranoid. It obviously knows my previous answer by the "Keep using" wording, yet it still refuses to accept that as my final word on the subject. How can I get this window to go away and not come back?

(EDIT: I found a thread on Microsoft's forum from a guy having essentially the same issue, but so far, no one there has come up with an answer, either.)
 

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  • OS
    Windows 8 (duh)
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My Computer

System One

  • OS
    Windows 8.1.1 Pro with Media Center
    Computer type
    PC/Desktop
    System Manufacturer/Model
    Gateway
    CPU
    AMD K140 Cores 2 Threads 2 Name AMD K140 Package Socket FT1 BGA Technology 40nm
    Motherboard
    Manufacturer Gateway Model SX2110G (P0)
    Memory
    Type DDR3 Size 8192 MBytes DRAM Frequency 532.3 MHz
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    ATI AMD Radeon HD 7310 Graphics
    Sound Card
    AMD High Definition Audio Device Realtek High Definition Audio USB Audio Device
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    Name 1950W on AMD Radeon HD 7310 Graphics Current Resolution 1366x768 pixels Work Resolution 1366x76
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    Specification AMD E1-1200 APU with Radeon HD Graphics
    Family F
    Extended Family 14
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    Opera 24.0
    Antivirus
    Avast Internet Security
Sorry, no good. If you read the link I just added to the original message, you'll see that that screen is already set the way I want it, and unsetting and resetting it doesn't stop it from asking.
 

My Computer

System One

  • OS
    Windows 8 (duh)

My Computer

System One

  • OS
    Windows 8.1.1 Pro with Media Center
    Computer type
    PC/Desktop
    System Manufacturer/Model
    Gateway
    CPU
    AMD K140 Cores 2 Threads 2 Name AMD K140 Package Socket FT1 BGA Technology 40nm
    Motherboard
    Manufacturer Gateway Model SX2110G (P0)
    Memory
    Type DDR3 Size 8192 MBytes DRAM Frequency 532.3 MHz
    Graphics Card(s)
    ATI AMD Radeon HD 7310 Graphics
    Sound Card
    AMD High Definition Audio Device Realtek High Definition Audio USB Audio Device
    Monitor(s) Displays
    Name 1950W on AMD Radeon HD 7310 Graphics Current Resolution 1366x768 pixels Work Resolution 1366x76
    Screen Resolution
    Current Resolution 1366x768 pixels Work Resolution 1366x768 pixels
    Hard Drives
    AMD K140
    Cores 2
    Threads 2
    Name AMD K140
    Package Socket FT1 BGA
    Technology 40nm
    Specification AMD E1-1200 APU with Radeon HD Graphics
    Family F
    Extended Family 14
    Model 2
    Extended Model 2
    Stepping 0
    Revision ON-C0
    Instruction
    Browser
    Opera 24.0
    Antivirus
    Avast Internet Security
Unfortunately, I can't recreate your situation because I only have Firefox on my laptop; however, I'm just wondering if your condition might have something to do with a default browser check? For example, what if you had IE set as the default browser and you previously had associated FF to open those types of links? Also, are all these browsers installed versions? If so, pick the one you want to open the http links and make it the default. Then disable, the default browser check on the rest. See what happens.
 

My Computer

System One

  • OS
    Windows 8.1
    Computer type
    PC/Desktop
    CPU
    Intel G2020
    Motherboard
    ASRock B75M-DGS R2.0
    Memory
    8GBs @ 1333 MHz
    Hard Drives
    Samsung 840 EVO
    PSU
    400w
    Internet Speed
    57/11
I'm just wondering if your condition might have something to do with a default browser check? For example, what if you had IE set as the default browser and you previously had associated FF to open those types of links? Also, are all these browsers installed versions?

My personal preference is FF, but I do keep the default checking turned on for all of them - because if the default gets changed by any of them, I want to know about it. (I want to be sure every time I fire up some other browser that it knows that it's NOT default.) And BTW, yes, all the browsers listed in the screen shot are installed on this computer. I would've installed Chrome also, but now that Opera uses the same innards, I'm not sure that's necessary. (Some of my work involves viewing newly constructed Web pages and verifying that they're readable and functional no matter what people use to view the page.) I'll try turning off the checks on the others next time I'm at that computer.
 

My Computer

System One

  • OS
    Windows 8 (duh)
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