Victim of Success

a Customer Success Manager's Notes to Self

Tagged: TROUBLESHOOTING

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Development

fix-browsertamer 1.1

Make BrowserTamer stick as default on Windows 10/11: UCPD, UserChoiceLatest, PS-SFTA, registration fixes, phantom-browser cleanup, and uninstall.

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Software

fix-browsertamer 1.0 available on GitHub

Modern Windows versions introduced mechanisms such as UCPD and UserChoice protections that prevent programmatic changes to default browsers. This post introduces a script that restores Browser Tamer as the default browser and automates the entire workaround process

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Tutorials

Fixing Browser Tamer Issues in Windows

After Windows updates introduced stronger protections around default applications, tools like Browser Tamer stopped working reliably. In this guide I explain what changed, why it happens, and what I found out on restoring Browser Tamer as the default link handler on modern Windows systems