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Block IE8 From Installing

Wednesday, August 5th, 2009

You can download the Microsoft Blocker Toolkit

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=21687628-5806-4ba6-9e4e-8e224ec6dd8c&displaylang=en

Or add the following to the regstry:

Registry key: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Setup\8.0
Key value name: DoNotAllowIE80 (DWORD)
When the key value name is not defined, distribution is not blocked.

  • When the key value name is set to 0, distribution is not blocked.
  • When the key value name is set to 1, distribution is blocked.