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Simplest and best way to approach setting a "default" browser settings. Heres a checklist of things to set, any direction on this one, any help is great.
http://isapps.jmu.edu/tutorials/browser/#ie7
Basically hard code the thing and just run the app.
After some deep operations and some investigating I have found that all of these are saved in the registry. My best friend (sarcastic).
On my machine they are found with..
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\AdvancedOptions
They all fall under there, this is relating to the Tools -> Internet Options -> Advanced Tab -> Settings
When I am in there it gives a default value, checked value, and unchecked value. I tried changing the default value, but it had no effect on the end result. there is a RegPath, and RegPoliciesPath in there, but I am still unsure how to work with the registry.
I really don't want to start coding changes in the registry without completely understanding what I am doing.
Any suggestions on how to change these values to relate back to the appropriate settings in the browser. Thanks.
Still more progress on this issue...
The registry location is
HKEY_CURRENT_USER/Software/Microsoft/Internet Explorer/Main
What I would like to do, is set the defaults for the browser settings, export the file and then just have an app that can import the specified (BrowserSettings.reg)
Without using an 3rd party resources, any way to complete this task ?
a reg file is just a text file, so you could read the reg file just like any other text file and use the .NET framework classes for registry writing to write the values.
You should be sure to check that it is infact IE7 before doing any of this incase they have IE6 or older and setting registry values could screw things up.
i will be sure to do that. i need to get ie 6...
i changed some of the values in the register (yes to no and vice versa ) and when i refreshed the browser they took effect. this is using IE7, i still need to figure out if the ie7 registry uses the same paths as ie6..
i can check for you, what path is IE7 using? the one you posted above?
I have PCs with IE 5.0, 6.0, 7.0 on them.
Yes, IE7 uses the one above.
I only need it for IE 6 / 7.
If it does use the same location I could just set the defaults once for 7 and once for 6 and just export the different versions.
Here is an exported .reg file from that key for IE 6 running on a clean install of XP SP2
(IE 6 version 6.0.2900.2180.xpsp_sp2_rtm.040803-2158)