Toolkit to Disable Automatic Delivery of Internet Explorer 8

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elmo222

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Hi, I use Vista Home Premium 32bit and I want to install Toolkit to Disable Automatic Delivery of Internet Explorer 8 at http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/...28-5806-4ba6-9e4e-8e224ec6dd8c&displaylang=en

I also checked out this page at We know IE! : How to set IE 8 Blocker policy for the step by step guide to install it. But in Vista Home Premium 32 bit, I cannot open the Group Policy Editor. When I type GPEDIT.MSC from start\Run and then hit the Enter key, the error message says soemthing like GPEDIT.MSC does not exists.

After I downloaded the Toolkit, I run the IE8BlockerToolkit.EXE and it extracted 4 files:

IE80Blocker.adm
IE80Blocker.cmd
IE80BlockerHelp.htm
IE80BlockerHelp-GPFilteringDialog.jpg





I double clicked on IE80Blocker.cmd and then I cannot proceeed to the next step to setup the IE8 Blocker Template (IE80Blocker.adm) May I ask if anyone can shed some light on this? How can I install this Toolkit to Disable Automatic Delivery of Internet Explorer 8 in Vista Home Premium 32 bit properly? Many thanks in advance, you help is much appreciated.
 

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Hmmm I am using IE8 and I have to say it is much better then IE7, and the in-private browser and malware/cookie blocking filters are nice. I have no issues with any website browsing, and If I do run into some that are not compatable with 8, I just click the compatability mode. Web slices are nice, and auto update themselves. IE8 is much more secure, and a provides a better internet experience IMO.

elmo222 said:
Hi, I use Vista Home Premium 32bit and I want to install Toolkit to Disable Automatic Delivery of Internet Explorer 8 at http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=21687628-5806-4ba6-9e4e-8e224ec6dd8c&displaylang=en

I also checked out this page at We know IE! : How to set IE 8 Blocker policy for the step by step guide to install it. But in Vista Home Premium 32 bit, I cannot open the Group Policy Editor. When I type GPEDIT.MSC from start\Run and then hit the Enter key, the error message says soemthing like GPEDIT.MSC does not exists.

After I downloaded the Toolkit, I run the IE8BlockerToolkit.EXE and it extracted 4 files:

IE80Blocker.adm
IE80Blocker.cmd
IE80BlockerHelp.htm
IE80BlockerHelp-GPFilteringDialog.jpg





I double clicked on IE80Blocker.cmd and then I cannot proceeed to the next step to setup the IE8 Blocker Template (IE80Blocker.adm) May I ask if anyone can shed some light on this? How can I install this Toolkit to Disable Automatic Delivery of Internet Explorer 8 in Vista Home Premium 32 bit properly? Many thanks in advance, you help is much appreciated.
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Premium/Basic do not have group editor(gpedit) or security policy(secpol) utilities available. Therefore you cannot add the .ADM template through gpedit.

If you want to prevent IE8 install why not just set your Windows update to "manual download/install" of available updates? That way you can "hide" the IE8 update, and it will be like it was never available. (I did that with language packs).
 

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Hello,

The basic issue that you have here is that the group policy editor is not available for Vista home basic or premium. It is only available with the business and ultimate editions.

I would suspect that the kit you are trying to install is designed for roll out on large numbers of machines in a commercial environment and possibly via an active directory server

There may be a method to do what you wish by direct editing of the registry - you may want to check with the sites you have already tried to see if anything is available for the home editions.

For a small number of machine you should also be able to set the updates from windows updates to ask before installing and then disable the download from installing on a machine by machine basis as was suggested above
 

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