How to make Google chrome the standard browser every time i boot my pc

Question

I was wondering if anyone knows how to make google chrome the standard browser every time i boot. This is for a school pc bc the kids change the default browser a lot. Maybe someone knows how to make a script for this. And maybe you could explain to me how to do this.

Thanks!

Answer 1

Create a text file, named for example browser-chrome.reg, and copy-paste the following text into it:

Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\FileExts\.htm\UserChoice]
"Progid"="ChromeHTML"
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\FileExts\.html\UserChoice]
"Progid"="ChromeHTML"
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\Shell\Associations\UrlAssociations\ftp\UserChoice]
"Progid"="ChromeHTML"
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\Shell\Associations\UrlAssociations\http\UserChoice]
"Progid"="ChromeHTML"
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\Shell\Associations\UrlAssociations\https\UserChoice]
"Progid"="ChromeHTML"

Create another text file, named for example set-chrome.bat, with the following text:

registry /s "C:\path\to\browser-chrome.reg"

Now create a scheduled task to run this .bat file upon any user logon.
For details see the article How to create basic tasks with Task Scheduler.

Answer 2

You may use the solution in this page.

For simplicity here are the steps;

1. On any windows 10 computer set the defaults that you would like to use via GUI.

Settings > Apps > Default apps

Defaults Apps Window

2. Run the following command on cmd.exe to export XML template based on currently selected defaults:

Dism.exe /online /Export-DefaultAppAssociations:C:\DefaultApps.xml

3. Copy the created XML file to a shared folder (if you want to change the defaults apps and automatically reflected on the other machines) or just move by a USB stick and then point this in Group Policy Settings on each machine.

Computer Configuration > Administrative Templates > Windows Components > File Explorer > Set a default associations configuration file

Select Enabled and input the XML file location

Set a default associations configuration file

4. To make them not change the settings you should not give its accounts the admin rights.