Dalle & DXter

Three ways to kill and avoid KB976002 (The Microsoft Browser Choice Screen)

By Fredrik "DXter" Jonsson

I am not a very big fan of KB976002, the Microsoft Browser Choice Screen. Here are three ways to prevent it to appear on your computers:

 

1. The cmd way:

reg add HKLM\Software\BrowserChoice /v Enable /t REG_DWORD /d 0×00000000 /f

 

 

2. The VB.NET way:

Public Module Registry
Public Sub Main()

My.Computer.Registry.SetValue("HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\BrowserChoice", "Enable", "0", Microsoft.Win32.RegistryValueKind.DWord)

End Sub
End Module

 

 

3. The PowerShell way:

Set-ItemProperty -path ‘HKLM:\Software\BrowserChoice’ -name ‘Enable’ -type ‘DWord’ -value ‘0‘

 

 

An interesting fact however is that KB976002 can not yet be found in WSUS. I wonder if it will ever show up?

 

 

// Fredrik “DXter” Jonsson

Project01: Wikipedia Search Accelerator

By Fredrik Wall

A new accelerator

http://poweradmin.se/project/01/installer.html

 

It’s so easy to make an Search Accelerator.

The instruction on how to do this and the Accelerator maker will be
posted during the weekend.

 

Project01: New Search Accelerator

By Fredrik Wall

I have made a new Search accelerator.
Buzzfrog asked me on Twitter if I could make one for NE.se.

So here It is.

And can be found at
http://poweradmin.se/project/01/installer.html

 

Project01: Accelerator installer

By Fredrik Wall

I did some work on the Accelerator installer for this project page last night.

But the installer will only handle 2 websites at this point.
Had some issues with the xml file and & signs.

 

If you go to the Accelerator Installer page and install the PowerShellUG.com
search accelerator you will see this:

Just click Add and the Search Accelerator are installed.

Mark some text on a web page and click on the accelerator button,
All accelerators and then you will se the “Search PowerShellUG.com”
accelerator.

 

The how-to will be posted later today and then I will post the next step
in this project. My Search Accelerator Maker in PowerShell.

 

Project01: IE 8 Accelerators

By Fredrik Wall

My first project here at PowerAdmin.se will be IE8 Accelerators.

I have done 3 easy accelerators by now.

1. Search accelerator for www.powershellug.com
   The Scandinavian PowerShell User Group
2. Search accelerator for www.itproffs.se
   Largest IT-Pro community in Sweden with over 160 000 posts.
3. Search accelerator for www.itbloggen.se
   An IT-Blog community with IT-Bloggers from Sweden.

 

In short these accelerators will let you mark a string and then use a site to search for the string.

I will post a url to the installation file for these accelerators tonight.
And then I will post how I did it and some more information about IE8 accelerators.

 

Internet Explorer 8 – Released today

By Fredrik Wall

Internet Explorer 8 got released today.
So now you can download the final release at http://www.microsoft.com/ie