How to remove the "send a smile/frown" on internet explorer 11

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  1. Posts : 282
    Windows 10, 8.1, 7, and Vista
       #11

    Unbelievable that Mickeysoft decided to include this garbage on IE11 on the final version of Windows 10. What a joke. Honestly.

    Whoever at Microsoft thought this "cute" button would be a good idea should be fired.
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  2. Posts : 1
    Linux
       #12

    How to "take ownership"?


    I’ve found a small solution to hide the smiley icon. It doesn’t disable the button, it only renders the icon invisible.
    This is what I did:

    • Navigate to C:\Windows\System32 and find ieframe.dll
    • Take ownership and give administrators full control
    • ...snip...
    • Save the file and copy it back to C:\Windows\System32


    ................

    So, the question is how to take "control" - I seem to still be getting permission denied errors when copying the file back to c:\Windows\System32?

    Okay so it seems that after taking ownership and giving adminstrators control, I got further - I had to also explicitly set the file permission. It did let me copy my modified .dll over the ieframe.dll, but now IE does not start up! Luckily I am running this in a VM so can revert to an earlier snapshot, but there does seem to be some fundamental step that I am missing!
    Last edited by GerhardusVanG; 17 Dec 2015 at 07:21.
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  3. Posts : 17,838
    Windows 10
       #13

    Solution found...


    Disable Feedback/'Smiley' on Internet Explorer Toolbar:

    In the Windows Registry, navigate to HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft
    create a new sub-key under Microsoft and name it Internet Explorer
    create a new sub-key under Internet Explorer and name it Restrictions

    now the full path should be HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Restrictions

    now select Restrictions and move to the right side pane and create a new DWORD, name it NoHelpItemSendFeedback and give it a value of 1

    How to remove the "send a smile/frown" on internet explorer 11-000083.png

    To re-enable the 'button', change the DWORD value to 0 or delete the entire parent key you created.

    Edit: Props to Vishal Gupta and his team:

    [Windows 10 Tip] Registry Tweak to Disable (Smiley) Button in Internet Explorer Toolbar - AskVG
    Last edited by Edwin; 29 May 2016 at 06:35.
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  4. Posts : 12
    windows 10
    Thread Starter
       #14

    Edwin said:
    Disable Feedback/'Smiley' on Internet Explorer Toolbar:

    In the Windows Registry, navigate to HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft
    create a new sub-key under Microsoft and name it Internet Explorer
    create a new sub-key under Internet Explorer and name it Restrictions

    now the full path should be HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Restrictions

    now select Restrictions and move to the right side pane and create a new DWORD, name it NoHelpItemSendFeedback and give it a value of 1

    How to remove the "send a smile/frown" on internet explorer 11-000083.png

    To re-enable the 'button', change the DWORD value to 0 or delete the entire parent key you created.
    at last a solution was found! and working! THANKS

    my default browser is again IE
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  5. Posts : 17,838
    Windows 10
       #15

    maxr187 said:
    at last a solution was found! and working! THANKS

    my default browser is again IE
    You're welcome!
    Just passing it along. Props to Vishal Gupta/"Franek"

    [Windows 10 Tip] Registry Tweak to Disable (Smiley) Button in Internet Explorer Toolbar - AskVG
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  6. Posts : 4,279
    Windows 11 Pro 22H3
       #16

    Thank you for finding that.
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  7. Posts : 102
    win 10 pro (22H2)
       #17

    Found this,
    How to remove the "send a smile/frown" on internet explorer 11-77.png
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  8. Posts : 12
    windows 10
    Thread Starter
       #18

    paulco said:
    Found this,
    How to remove the "send a smile/frown" on internet explorer 11-77.png
    wow this also works!
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  9. Posts : 1
    Windows 10
       #19

    maxr187 said:
    that smiley icon is a bit of annoying.
    how about this ?

    [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Restrictions]
    "NoHelpItemSendFeedback"=dword:00000001
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