Running Siebel Tools 8.x And IE 11 And Win7 x64!

Hi,

I use Win 7 x64 as my development platform, i Develop on Siebel 8.2.2.4, I use IE 11. I’m heading for trouble thats for sure! ??

Allthough not perfect / not fully tested yet: this is a nice teaser:

It’s not all simple sailing. One of the big hidden things is that Siebel Tools do not like you start the dedicated client with a /b pointing to the x32 IE 11. I don’t know why… Annoying! It just fails!

Then when you set nothing:

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Siebel Web Session
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Cannot determine default web browser for current user.
Please set up your web browser properly or use the /B command line argument to specify one.
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OK  
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This annoying thing is what greets you the first many times, until you try the /b – which then does not work.

you then think ah! and surf and surf the web for somebody who’s been in your position – but there’s not much to be found.

Here are the simple step needed to fix the issue:

Open Regedit:

Navigate to

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\Shell\Associations\UrlAssociations

if there is no http key (folder) create it

in the http key create a UserChoice key (folder)

in the UserChoice key create a String Progid with a value of IE.HTTP

Like This:

Now the F5 Run will work!!! Yeah!

Note to self and others: the IE.HTTP actually points to the registry entry: HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\IE.HTTP

Which in turn points to the x64 version of IE, but a x32 IE is started by Tools…. Go Figure…

Enjoy!

/Henrik