Every now and then my Windows 10 machine decides it's not connected to the internet and I need to sign in to the wifi again (why it does that is a side-quest that I'm taking up with Enterprise support).
When this happens it says in various different locations and various different ways to use a browser to sign into my local wifi. A specific example of this message is from outlook where it says "CHECK YOUR CONNECTION To get new email use your browser to sing in to ORBI" - ORBI is the name of my wifi.
When I click on the link or the button it opens Firefox (default browser, all good) and navigates to and that's BAD.
I don't like MSN. There are lots of useful websites that I could use instead, which are equally reliable. (e.g StackExchange).
How do I set the page that it will use to confirm it has internet connection?
Edit: a bit more detail (thanks for the questions):
It's not a Firefox setting. I switched default browser to Chrome which is rather more controlled by my work and got the same result.
ORBI is my home network. This doesn't happen at work.
When I click on the link the browser initially goes to
It gets a 302 redirect to
Which results in a redirect to
So I guess it's down to whether I can change that initial URL
Edit more detail.
I did a registry search for msftconnecttest and found a set of entries at Computer\HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\NlaSvc\Parameters\Internet that reference it.
I found a couple of web pages that discuss editing it. (Windows server 2016)
(Vista, not Windows 10)(v=vs.85)?redirectedfrom=MSDN
I thought it was worth a bash, so I've edited ActiveWebProbeHost and ActiveWebProbeHostV6 to point to a site under my control that will respond on port 80 (with a redirect to https, but whatever).
That's made no difference, I still end up on MSN.
Thanks.
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