Category Archives: Internet Explorer

Removing “Send to Onenote” features from Internet Explorer

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Here’s a nice bug for you, when you install Onenote as part of the office 2010 professional installation, it adds two icons to internet explorer. These icons allow you to send and interact with OneNote from Internet explorer.

These icons may not be wanted for a number of reasons, due to user preference, lockdown in a shared desktop environment, etc..

If we wanted to remove them, we could choose not to install them as part of the office installation, Microsoft in their wisdom gave us the ability to disable this component from being installed with the following two options when installing the application:


So where’s the bug?

So at this stage you’d seal your installation package, and roll it out to the test environments riding on your sense of accomplishment right? Wrong.

The above components dont work, by that I mean, you can certainly uncheck them from the installation, but the buttons will still show up like rebellious teenagers.

So how do you remove them?

Seek out the following keys, and delete them:

Send to OneNote

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESOFTWAREMicrosoftInternet ExplorerExtensions{2670000A-7350-4f3c-8081-5663EE0C6C49}

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESOFTWAREWow6432NodeMicrosoftInternet ExplorerExtensions{2670000A-7350-4f3c-8081-5663EE0C6C49}

Onenote Linked Notes

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESOFTWAREMicrosoftInternet ExplorerExtensions{789FE86F-6FC4-46A1-9849-EDE0DB0C95CA}

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESOFTWAREWow6432NodeMicrosoftInternet ExplorerExtensions{789FE86F-6FC4-46A1-9849-EDE0DB0C95CA}

But what if I want to display them to some users ?

  1. export, the above keys to .reg files
  2. delete the registry keys
  3. modify each reg file, changing HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE to HKEY_CURRENT_USER
  4. Import the registry files for the users who need it.

Internet explorer 7 wont launch

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Internet-Explorer-8Had a weird one over the weekend. A colleague of mine accidentally approved Internet Explorer 8 to all servers in our domain via wsus and it left our Citrix servers in a bit of a sad state. We set about removing it as soon as possible but after the uninstall / restart we were faced with this very strange problem. When we double clicked internet explorer on the desktop, the application wouldn’t launch and a new shortcut to Internet Explorer would be created on the desktop.

We also had these logged every thirty minutes or so in the event logs:

Event Type:    Error
Event Source:    Userenv
Event Category:    None
Event ID:    1041
Date:        06/09/2009
Time:        21:50:38
User:        NT AUTHORITYSYSTEM
Computer:    Computername
Description:
Windows cannot query DllName registry entry for {7B849a69-220F-451E-B3FE-2CB811AF94AE} and it will not be loaded. This is most likely caused by a faulty registration.

For more information, see Help and Support Center at http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/events.asp.

And:

Event Type:    Error
Event Source:    Userenv
Event Category:    None
Event ID:    1041
Date:        06/09/2009
Time:        21:50:38
User:        NT AUTHORITYSYSTEM
Computer:    Computername
Description:
Windows cannot query DllName registry entry for {CF7639F3-ABA2-41DB-97F2-81E2C5DBFC5D} and it will not be loaded. This is most likely caused by a faulty registration.

For more information, see Help and Support Center at http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/events.asp.

If you face the above problems, delete the following registry keys and open internet explorer as an administrator:

“HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESOFTWAREMicrosoftWindows NTCurrentVersionWinlogonGPExtensions{CF7639F3-ABA2-41DB-97F2-81E2C5DBFC5D}” /f
“HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESOFTWAREMicrosoftWindows NTCurrentVersionWinlogonGPExtensions{7B849a69-220F-451E-B3FE-2CB811AF94AE}” /f
“HKEY_CLASSES_ROOTCLSID{871C5380-42A0-1069-A2EA-08002B30309D}shellOpenHomePage” /v legacydisable /f

That should fix that!