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Block IE 10 – Keep it out of automatic updates

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by Steve Wiseman on April 26, 2013 · 4 comments

in Network Administrator


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We have been getting many requests to add IE 10 blocking to Network Administrator.

Why is that?

IE 10 shows up as an automatic update…If a user runs an update on their own, and is not paying attention – they have IE 10 installed.

After that, lots of stuff is broken for them (Not broken, but those pesky corporate sites that require an earlier version of IE no longer work).

If you want to prevent this from happening you can use a registry value to block it.

The value is under this path:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Setup\10.0

Add a DWORD value named:

DoNotAllowIE10

Set it to 1 to block, Set it to 0 to unblock.

We also have updated Network Administrator to set this key for you – that way you don’t have to mess around with the registry by hand:

Block IE 10 Network Administrator

Download a copy from here

Keep in mind this will only prevent it from showing up in Automatic Update. Users can still install IE 10 by hand if they wish.

Also, for Network Administrator to work make sure you have configured your admin share and firewall to allow it….here are instructions on how to do that for each version of Windows:

Windows XP:

http://www.intelliadmin.com/index.php/2008/12/enabling-file-and-printer-sharing-in-windows-xp/

Windows Vista, 2008:

http://www.intelliadmin.com/index.php/2008/12/enabling-file-and-printer-sharing-in-vista/

Windows 7, 2008 R2:

http://www.intelliadmin.com/index.php/2009/08/windows-7-the-admin-share/

Windows 8, 2012:

http://www.intelliadmin.com/index.php/2012/10/windows-8-enable-the-admin-share/

From a script on any version of windows (Must run as administrator):

Enable the admin share from a script

Get the latest version Network Administrator from here:

Network Administrator Download

If you purchased and want to update, just download again and install right over your current version. It will update the plugins automatically – just make sure it is not running.

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{ 4 comments… read them below or add one }

1 Mr Chen May 2, 2013 at 2:04 pm

Just in time steve. Been looking for a way to stop this.

Thanks for the tip

2 Jo Jo May 2, 2013 at 2:05 pm

Steve. Does this keep users from installing IE 10? I need a way to do that since even if I take it out of updates, they still find a way to install it

3 Steve Wiseman May 2, 2013 at 2:07 pm

Hi Jo Jo,

This does not prevent users from manually installing IE 10. This just keeps it from being included in automatic updates.

4 Bogus June 6, 2013 at 12:38 am

I just had a bit of a run around which brought me to this page – IE10 broke windows update: when I tried to get Office updates (hadn’t enabled it before) using IE10, the update page was blank:

http://www.update.microsoft.com/microsoftupdate/v6/vistadefault.aspx?ln=en-au

I uninstalled IE10 and it worked. After uninstalling IE10, DoNotAllowIE10 is set to block, by the way.

cheers.

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