Tuesday, March 24, 2009

IE7 - Enable Third-party Browser Extensions

Manual steps to disable third-party tool bands and Browser Helper Objects

To manually disable the tool bands and Browser Helper Objects, follow these steps:

  1. Close all instances of Internet Explorer, click Start, point to Settings, and then click Control Panel.
  2. Double-click Internet Options.
  3. Click the Advanced tab.
  4. Under Browsing, click to clear the Enable third-party browser extensions (requires restart) check box.
  5. Restart Internet Explorer.

These steps change the value data for the "Enable Browser Extensions" string value to "No" in the following registry key:

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Main

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