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luni, 6 martie 2023

Internet Explorer and Windows 10

 Recently Internet Explorer was "replaced" by Edge in some versions of Windows 10.

"Where is my beloved Internet Explorer? Internet Explorer is Gone! Oh, No!"

I noticed that the solution used by Microsoft was to to add an add-on in Internet Explorer.

So I ran IExplorer "InPrivate" (right click on the IExplorer shortcut and choose InPrivate Browsing), then I clicked Manage add-ons (via Internet Options-> Programs)

There I saw an add-on called IeToEdge. This way I saw its name and where is stored

I propose two workarounds, both of them verified:

1) First I renamed the Exe file

To do that, I went to the folder pointed (in my case was C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft\Edge\Application\110.0.1587.63\BHO - but the version number could be different on other machines, and I've even found more than a single such folder, depending on how many updates the machine has), and renamed ie_to_edge_stub.exe into something else (like ie_to_edge_stub.exe.old)

2) Another approach was to leave the EXE file untouched, and delete the key from registry.

The appropriate key is located here: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Browser Helper Objects, where I searched for a key that contains IeToEdge.