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Stop URL redirecting to load up in Internet explorer instead of other web browser

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When a user loads up a certain sharepoint 2010 site (it’s a standard user SharePoint site) it’s automatically redirecting / loading up the site in Internet explorer but they would like be able to open it in another web browser instead such as Google Chrome. Even if the user enters the URL address in Chrome first it still automatically opens up the page in IE. I suspect there might be a group policy that is setting this behavior but if it is indeed a group policy I am not sure which one it might be.

Is there a way that I could identify what is triggering this behavior? – maybe a software tool of some sort?. Do you agree on my suspicion that it might be a group policy? Is there a way of identifying which group policy it could be?
 
The user is running Windows 10 Pro. Under the users login we tried on another machine running Windows 7 and was not seeing the issue, but on another machine running windows 10 we saw the issue so its appears to be Windows 10 related / Windows 10 related security setting.

Any suggestions would be great
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Set your favorite browser as default, that's all.
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I have tried that already but this does not resolve. There appears to be something re-directing the specific URL to load in IE
when entering other URL's the issue is not seen - the website loads in Chrome and does not re-direct to IE

i suspect there might be a group policy directing specific URL to IE but if this is the case im not sure how I can isolate which Group policy it may be?
Any other suggestions?

Thanks
This seems like something in the link, not a GPO. How is the link added to the browser, from a shortcut, script or something similar, or does it do this even when the URL is manually added to the browser address bar?

weird...
Thanks for feedback - The URL link is added to the web browser either by manually typing it in or copy / pasting from a document (such as a Microsoft word file) it's not inserted automatically by script or other such method.

One of the reasons I mentioned group policy is someone else at work beliefs it might be group policy related & something URL specific but sadly we don't know for sure since we didn't setup such groups policy's.

Yes it does seem bit weird
Thanks
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There is no use-a-certain-browser-per-url feature in windows.
Is it a http or https site? Please test the following: press winkey and r together to get to the run prompt. There, enter
http://www.google.com
and afterwards
https://www.google.com

Where do those open, in IE?
Thanks for further feedback.
SneekCo - ill try this, at present it wont connect to the users machine (perhaps WMI is not active on there machine as a related WMI error appears)

McKnife - ill try these tests and let you know the results as soon as I can. I asked the user to try as they have been out the office lately. Ill chase them up Monday if they dont manage to try it.

Thanks
We found a group policy that was triggering this issue and have amended this - there was a GPO that was redirecting certain URLS.

Apologies in the delay getting back to you on this - it took bit of time looking at and getting feedback from users.