Microsoft intercepting Firefox, Chrome installation on Windows 10 Insider build

Re:Microsoft intercepting Firefox, Chrome installation on Wi... by Already__Taken on Wednesday September 12, 2018 @07:18PM (#17974416)

There's a hash of the registry key stored "securely" somewhere. Only the API the control panel default apps UI uses changes this registry key and updates the hash. When the application key is called to run and doesn't match the hash it's reset to the value from "C:\Windows\System32\OEMDefaultAssociations.xml"

It's terrible behavior.

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Re:Microsoft intercepting Firefox, Chrome installation on Wi... by exikyut on Wednesday September 12, 2018 @09:38PM (#17975228)

What sorts of locks/permissions does this file have?

Maybe you could make a tool that lets you make changes, schedules a modification of this file on next restart, and after the restart it propagates the changes in the registry too.

Yes, "please reboot to apply your new mouse position^W^W^Wfile association changes", yay, but that'd work.

Although I'd definitely hate it.

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Re:Microsoft intercepting Firefox, Chrome installation on Wi... by anticensor on Thursday September 13, 2018 @01:48AM (#17976353)

Does direct editing via regedit work as expected or does it also reset?

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Re:Microsoft intercepting Firefox, Chrome installation on Wi... by Already__Taken on Friday September 14, 2018 @12:55PM (#17988835)

It will trigger a reset because you haven't updated the hash...

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