[wpkg-users] Opening links in IE11 on WIn10+ ...

[Marco Gaiarin]

Mandi! Falko Trojahn
  In chel di` si favelave...

> not knowing much any more about Windows ..., what do you think about:
> roll out a VM (or ... sandbox or anything) which only has IE, but 
> doesn't interfere in any way with the normal Windows/User-Desktop?
> Just my 2¢ :)

Too much effort. IE is still alive and kicking under the hood; Microsoft
have simply ''disabled'' it but still is in use by some core Microsoft
components, also in Win11.

Finally i've found a way, and seems to work.


1) disabling the BHO still works.
	reg add "HKLM\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Edge" /f /v "RedirectSitesFromInternetExplorerPreventBHOInstall" /t REG_DWORD /d "1"
	reg add "HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Ext\CLSID" /f /v "{1FD49718-1D00-4B19-AF5F-070AF6D5D54C}" /t REG_SZ /d "0"

and it is worth to enable that, because prevent some 'flashing' (eg, i run
explicitly IEXPLORE.EXE that run edge that open in IE).


2) you can add a 'sitelist' with exceptions, but registry location and XML
 format seems largely undocumented. At last:

	HKLM\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Edge\EnterpriseModeSiteListManagerAllowed = 1
	HKLM\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Edge\InternetExplorerIntegrationLevel = 2
	HKLM\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Edge\InternetExplorerIntegrationSiteList = file://C:\\...\\file.xml

where file.xml:

 <site-list version="202306012">
        <created-by>
                <tool>Gaio</tool>
                <version>1973</version>
                <date-created>06/01/2023 14:15:16</date-created>
        </created-by>

        <site url="local.site.it">
                <compat-mode>Default</compat-mode>
                <open-in allow-redirect="true" app="true">IE11</open-in>
        </site>
 </site-list>

and 'app="true"' is the (undocumented) key.

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