How do I KEEP Chrome as default?

I continually select Google Chrome as my default browser, but frequently when I do a search I get responses from Bing or Edge. I usually can put Google Chrome in e.g., Bing's search box but Bing returns. I've used Chrome's settings and frequently need to delete browsers and save, but after a few searches Bing or Edge returns. I've also used the Windows apps preferences with the same results - my preferences don't stick.

How do I get Chrome to remain my dafault browser?

I start with using Chrome search box but where I begin search doesn't matter. I've continued to use settings to ask for Chrome to be default.

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Thanks to you both. I have several points of confusion - possibly due to differences in British English and American English.

What "taskbar" are you referring to? I think of the taskbar as the linear box that holds app icons and generally defaults to the bottom of your monitor. A search of "taskbar" in Windows "settings" seems to refer to that. I never use that area to invoke browser searches. I generally use one of the search boxes that have a magnifying glass like the ones in screen captures 2 or 3 in my post image.

Are you saying you find that in Settings your default browser is changing?

I don't think so, but on many occasions I find eligible browsers listed when I invoke Chrome settings (e.g., Yahoo, Bing, others not recognized) but Chrome remains default. I delete non-chrome browsers but continue to have some invade my searches.

This may appear to be a trivial issue but it isn't for me. I've used Chrome or its predecessors for more than 30 years and have had browser invasions only recently, I won't present details here but the invaders have characteristics that I don't like and I want to have Chrome as my only browser.

I appreciate your help on this - thanks.

Give this program a try. Default Programs Editor

This is exactly why I run a stripped down version of 10. Edge and all that senseless crap is gone.

dalchina said:

like very occasionally an update won't install.

Fine with me personally. I don't use updates like others do. I mean, I don't wait till patch Tuesday and update like I absolutely must or else I'm immediately a victim of malware or some hacker crap.

Truth of the matter is I've never payed attention to updates and only installed updates needed for functionality with programs and hardware and have never had my computer hosed down by malware or whatever. I've been this way since Windows 98se. Yet I see users all across the Internet landscape and on tech forums much like this one pay homage to the patch Tuesday god and still get malware. LOL! Really?!

In a nutshell I think a vast amount of those so-called "updates" are a load of crap. And they DO come packed with telemetry. This is why I can use the AtlasOS script since the breaking of updates is a zero issue for me. I also do things differently on my computer than others would too... So that helps.

(And I dislike Edge now and don't use it - it has become so much slower and resource intensive - with added popups- not what it was at all).

All about the money. Windows 10 onwards whores out and turns PC users into Redmond's little cash cow... The acronym PC doesn't exist anymore.