Disabling IE customizations (RE:Popups? No, OOKA OOKA!)
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In a previous post it was mentioned that an ad company was looking into creating software that took over IE's toolbar and other things. Needless to say, this made people (including myself) quite uppity. Today I stumbled across the Group Policy editor in XP (It's in 2000 too, and probably something similar in NT4). Lo and behold, under 'Local Computer Policy/User Configuration/Administrative Templates/Windows Components/Internet Explorer', there is an option called 'Disable external branding of Internet Explorer'. Enabling this option (and thus disabling 3rd party branding) should take care of this browser-hijacking crap for now. Just thought people might want to know... -- Russell Morris "WOW! Chocolate - half price!" - Homer Simpson, while in the land of chocolate.
Where is the Group Policy editor located? John Carson
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Where is the Group Policy editor located? John Carson
It's an MMC snappin. I'm not sure about Win2K or NT, but you can run 'gpedit.msc' on XP to get to the Group Policy editor. You can also start MMC and search for the Group Policy snap-in yourself. -- Russell Morris "WOW! Chocolate - half price!" - Homer Simpson, while in the land of chocolate.
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It's an MMC snappin. I'm not sure about Win2K or NT, but you can run 'gpedit.msc' on XP to get to the Group Policy editor. You can also start MMC and search for the Group Policy snap-in yourself. -- Russell Morris "WOW! Chocolate - half price!" - Homer Simpson, while in the land of chocolate.
Russell Morris wrote: It's an MMC snappin. I'm not sure about Win2K or NT, but you can run 'gpedit.msc' on XP to get to the Group Policy editor. You can also start MMC and search for the Group Policy snap-in yourself. I'm a bit lost here :-( Does it just alter a registry value or is it more complicated ? Regardz Colin J Davies
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It's an MMC snappin. I'm not sure about Win2K or NT, but you can run 'gpedit.msc' on XP to get to the Group Policy editor. You can also start MMC and search for the Group Policy snap-in yourself. -- Russell Morris "WOW! Chocolate - half price!" - Homer Simpson, while in the land of chocolate.
It's the same in win2k Cheers, Tom Archer Author, Inside C#
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In a previous post it was mentioned that an ad company was looking into creating software that took over IE's toolbar and other things. Needless to say, this made people (including myself) quite uppity. Today I stumbled across the Group Policy editor in XP (It's in 2000 too, and probably something similar in NT4). Lo and behold, under 'Local Computer Policy/User Configuration/Administrative Templates/Windows Components/Internet Explorer', there is an option called 'Disable external branding of Internet Explorer'. Enabling this option (and thus disabling 3rd party branding) should take care of this browser-hijacking crap for now. Just thought people might want to know... -- Russell Morris "WOW! Chocolate - half price!" - Homer Simpson, while in the land of chocolate.
That option is more for turning off the 'compaq (or whatever)' logo and text OEMs put on IE when you buy a comp from them. I dont think this browser-ui advertising is teh same thing as that, since oem customization is limited to only a few cosmetic aspects of IE. // Rock
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In a previous post it was mentioned that an ad company was looking into creating software that took over IE's toolbar and other things. Needless to say, this made people (including myself) quite uppity. Today I stumbled across the Group Policy editor in XP (It's in 2000 too, and probably something similar in NT4). Lo and behold, under 'Local Computer Policy/User Configuration/Administrative Templates/Windows Components/Internet Explorer', there is an option called 'Disable external branding of Internet Explorer'. Enabling this option (and thus disabling 3rd party branding) should take care of this browser-hijacking crap for now. Just thought people might want to know... -- Russell Morris "WOW! Chocolate - half price!" - Homer Simpson, while in the land of chocolate.
Would this mean that the legitimate extensions wouldnt work? ie, can I do this change, and then still run the Google Toolbar for example? -- David Wengier Sonork ID: 100.14177 - Ch00k
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Would this mean that the legitimate extensions wouldnt work? ie, can I do this change, and then still run the Google Toolbar for example? -- David Wengier Sonork ID: 100.14177 - Ch00k
David Wengier wrote: can I do this change, and then still run the Google Toolbar for example? Works for me... Jon Sagara There is no spoon. Best Miniputt score: 21
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In a previous post it was mentioned that an ad company was looking into creating software that took over IE's toolbar and other things. Needless to say, this made people (including myself) quite uppity. Today I stumbled across the Group Policy editor in XP (It's in 2000 too, and probably something similar in NT4). Lo and behold, under 'Local Computer Policy/User Configuration/Administrative Templates/Windows Components/Internet Explorer', there is an option called 'Disable external branding of Internet Explorer'. Enabling this option (and thus disabling 3rd party branding) should take care of this browser-hijacking crap for now. Just thought people might want to know... -- Russell Morris "WOW! Chocolate - half price!" - Homer Simpson, while in the land of chocolate.
Nice tip... Thanks!
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It's an MMC snappin. I'm not sure about Win2K or NT, but you can run 'gpedit.msc' on XP to get to the Group Policy editor. You can also start MMC and search for the Group Policy snap-in yourself. -- Russell Morris "WOW! Chocolate - half price!" - Homer Simpson, while in the land of chocolate.
FYI, the group policy editor exist only in the pro version of XP. Home version owners don't get it :((
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David Wengier wrote: can I do this change, and then still run the Google Toolbar for example? Works for me... Jon Sagara There is no spoon. Best Miniputt score: 21
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