I need to dissable JAVA helper add-on on IE8 via GPO!

[Ceez]

hello everyone

sorry if I am posting on the wrong section, but I am wondering if anyone knows of a way to disable 1 single add-on in IE8 via gpo. Reason is cause it's conflicting with our kaspersky AV 6.0 and slowing IE8 to a crawl.

I've seen the articles where to go on GPO but MS has it backwards, instead of asking which add-on to kill they want you to list the ones that you want to keep. Considering there are many applications across our network I cant just pinpoint the few that I would like to keep.

Any thoughts?

Thanks,

ceez

 

[IllogicallyLogical]

I believe you are confused by the Deny all add-ons unless specifically allowed in the Add-on List GPO. Rather, have a look at just the Add-on List GPO setting. It lets you specify add-ons to either be allowed or denied. You do not have to list every add-on you want to keep. Just correctly add the problematic add-on to the list and follow the GPO settings for disabling it.

- Internet Explorer Policy Settings

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb457144.aspx

Add-on List. You can use this policy setting to manage a list of add-ons to be allowed or denied by Internet Explorer. This list can be used with the related Deny all add-ons unless specifically allowed in the Add-on List policy setting, which defines whether add-ons not listed here are assumed to be denied.

Enable this policy setting to enter a list of add-ons to be allowed or denied by Internet Explorer. For each entry that you add to the list, enter the following information: name of the value (the class identifier, CLSID) for the add-on, and a value, which is a number which indicates whether Internet Explorer should deny or allow the add-on to be loaded.

Joey
CCNA, MCSA 2003, MCP, A+, Network+, Wireless#

 

[Ceez]

thanks for the reply IllogicallyLogical,

I guess i misread it. I thought I had to list what I wanted to keep.

I just added the CLSID of the java helper {DBC80044-A445-435B-BC74-9C25C1C588A9} and added a value of "0" to deny the add-on.

let see what happens. time to test.

thanks for the clarification.

ps- I wonder if the CLSID is the same for the various versions of java out there?!?!