Re: FW: Temporary fix for MSIE4.01 bug

Martin Johnson (M.Johnson@ERIS.DERA.GOV.UK)
Fri, 16 Jan 1998 10:51:58 +0000

On dear. Having turned "yes" to "no", if you now run up Microsoft
Visual C++ V5.0 (SP2 in my case) you'll see the "no" change back to a
"yes".

REGEDT32 can be used on NT to make the Internet Explorer key
read-only. This stops the "no" changing back to "yes". Predictably,
it also stops the online documentation working in Visual C++. It
might also cause problems in IE since IE will lack the permission to
change its registry data.

- martin.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: DilDog [SMTP:dildog@L0PHT.COM]
> Sent: Thursday, January 15, 1998 1:00 PM
> To: BUGTRAQ@NETSPACE.ORG
> Subject: Temporary fix for MSIE4.01 bug
>
> Here's a temporary fix for the MSIE4.01 bug that I posted yesterday.
>
> By no means is this official. If it breaks your system, it's yer own
> damn fault, not mine. But hey, it's all yer getting until Microsoft
> patches it.
>
> If you look in the registry, you'll see a key:
> HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\mkenabled
>
> it usually says "yes". make it say "no"
>
> Thanks to Umit Tiric (umittiric@bdp.com.tr) for pointing out this
fix.
>
>
> --DilDog