A data set that adheres to the 3MF can be saved as a file with the. ![]() It defines a set of parts (required and optional) and their relationships, to a 3D manufacturing device. I’m happy that isn’t the case, though.This guide describes the structure of the 3D Manufacturing Format (3MF) file type and how the 3D API can be used to create and manipulate it.ģMF is a set of conventions for using XML to describe the appearance and structure of 3D models for manufacturing (3D printing). The URL link files seem like yet another place they could hijack links and open them in Microsoft Edge instead of in your preferred web browser. I’d be quite surprised if anyone at Microsoft knew that they were shipping a second web browser with Windows 10. Microsoft has used aggressive tactics to promote its Edge browser, including scary dialogs when changing the default browser and even ignoring the default browser setting. ![]() This is also the origin of the mysterious TWINUI program, as previously discussed on this blog. The ieframe.dll library’s friendly/display name is “Internet Browser”, which is where the program gets its name from. It’s more of an artifact that the system creates by directly calling functions inside a left-over code library ( %SYSTEMROOT%\System32\ieframe.dll) once a part of the legacy Microsoft Internet Explorer web browser. This leaves the Internet Browser program as the only option, as you can see from the dialog at the top of the article.ĭespite its name, Internet Browser isn’t a browser. However, Windows won’t suggest using any of the leading web browsers directly as they don’t register support with the file association registry. URL files either via drag-and-drop, or when using them to open the files directly. URL file, and then it tells Windows to open that link in your system’s default web browser. All it does is to read and interpret the link in a given. Like my own EdgeDeflector program, the Internet Browser program is called into action when working with links in the Windows shell. (Right-click in a Windows Explorer window and choose New: Shortcut, and type in an absolute URL to create a link file.) You can double-click an URL file and Windows will open the associated URL in your default web browser. These are files that act as regular links on the web, or “internet shortcuts” as Windows calls them. The Internet Browser only shows up when you try to open. The only places you’ll find it is in the Open With shell dialog (shown above), and in the file-type association manager (shown below). Nor is it a program that’s listed in the Start menu or that you can even find an executable for anywhere on your disk. It’s not something I’d installed and it was clearly a part of Windows. The program had a small house icon with a blue roof, in the style of the many house icons in Windows 7. ![]() So, what is the Internet Browser program, what does it do, and where does it come from? It has been built-in to Windows since Windows Vista, but it has kept itself mostly quiet and in the background. I’d never seen or heard of this program before. The dialog listed an unfamiliar program called Internet Browser, not to be confused with Internet Explorer. I double-clicked on a shortcut.url file and Windows asked me to choose a program.
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