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Microsoft autoruns5/15/2023 ![]() If you uninstall Opera, whatever it did to make itself the location of the IE App Engine is not reversed. (the number of tabs I believe as Carbonite is looking for the IE Engine and tries a few times triggering extra TABs) So if you install Opera when Carbonite launches it calls the IE app engine, as Opera appears to have made itself the host of the IE App engine it launches Opera and three or four Speed dial tabs. ![]() Something the Opera latest installer has done has made Windows point the IE app engine calls, to point to Opera.Ī symptom of this is seen if you have Carbonite Installed on your system.Ĭarbonite uses the IE App engine for its interface when Carbonite starts it calls the IE app engine Would anybody have any possible idea of what's going on?Ī Former User last edited oper support I'd suggest you look at the posting on the microsoft forums. Those who have re-installed Opera have seen the 4 tabs auto open at startup return but the progid error message disappear. ![]() ![]() Some think that when Opera was uninstalled, it deleted or modified something that it should not have, so both Windows and Carbonite are having issues referencing this corrupted data entry. Some of us think Carbonite might be involved somehow, otherwise it's a pretty big coincidence all of the people in the thread have replied saying they have it installed, and one or two who uninstalled said the error messages went away. Ran CCleaner to remove remnants of Opera, still getting a version of the error prompts at startup."progid" error prompt at startup once Opera was uninstalled (see below for the two variants).We uninstalled Opera (coincidence among our group).No record of Opera suddenly showing up in Startup/autorun-type lists (not in MSCONFIG, not in Startup tab of Task Manager, not in Sysinternals).After update, every Windows restart prompted Opera to open with 4 tabs opened.Opera installed, but not default browser.Running Windows (most Windows 10, I think).I am part of a group of people at the Microsoft Answers community forums who have been trying to figure out how the following set of events affected us almost identically:
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