Hello BenevolentDeity, and welcome to Ten Forums. :)

Just to verify, did you do both steps 2 and 3?

No worries Ray. No damage could be done. #2 just enables all users to be able to do #3 to add the IE desktop icon.

I'd use step 4 in the tutorial below to "Pin to taskbar" Internet Explorer instead though. :)

https://www.tenforums.com/tutorials/1...dows-10-a.html

1 :
is possible to add
"Run as administrator"
to right click context menu
of IE11 icon created on desktop ?

2 :
usually I have an IE11 link on taskbar
pointed directly to the full file path : C:\Program Files\Internet Explorer\iexplore.exe
I discovered by chance that
if you hold CTRL+SHIFT + click on IE11 link on taskbar
IE11 will be launched as administrator (UAC show up)
even if you already have open another instance of IE11 as user :)
this trick also do not work with the created desktop icon

3 :
I don't know why ,
but here I have fully functionally icon of IE11 on desktop as described above
only if I run both .reg(s) , from step 2 and step 3
all my accounts have admin rights

c

Hello C, :)

Q1) I wouldn't recommend to use "Run as administrator" for IE11 since it could pose a security risk.

Q2) If you create a shortcut of iexplore.exe on the desktop instead, it should work the same. However, it won't have the same context menu items as the one in the tutorial.

Q3) That's correct. Step 2 enables the ability to add the IE11 icon, and step 3 actually adds it. See step 3A.

PaulaJava said:

Is there a way to apply these reg fixes to an offline image (mounted wim)?

Yes. Backup your host registry, then follow these relatively simple instructions:

1.) The install.wim must be on writable media, like a USB flash drive. If you have not made USB install media yet for your preferred W10 version, copy all content of Windows 10 ISO to a folder on PC. In this example I use folder D:\ISO_Files for this.

2.) List all available W10 editions in your Windows image:

Dism /Get-WimInfo /WimFile:D:\ISO_Files\Sources\install.wim

3.) Check the list, note index value for your preferred W10 edition.

4.) Create a mount folder, in this example I created it on C: drive as C:\Mount. Mount Windows image using correct index value:

Dism /Mount-Wim /WimFile:D:\ISO_Files\Sources\install.wim /index:1 /MountDir:C:\Mount

5.) Load the preferred registry hive from offline image to a temporary registry hive on host. In this example I load Software hive (HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT modified in this tutorial is in Software hive) to temp hive HKLM\Offline:

reg load HKLM\Offline C:\Mount\Windows\System32\Config\Software

6.) Open Registry Editor (regedit) on host, you'll find it now contains your temp hive HKLM\Offline:


7.) Browse to key you want to modify, in case of this tutorial it would be as follows:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Offline\Classes\CLSID\{871C5380-42A0-1069-A2EA-08002B30301D}

8.) Add / modify values as told in tutorial.

   Note

Notice that although usually you just want to edit / modify a single value, maybe two, and the edits would be easy to do without reference, the reg edits in this tutorial are quite complicated containing a lot of modified values, string values as well as DWORDs. A reference is quite useful in this case. To get a reference, apply reg file in question from tutorial to host registry.

If you for instance want to enable IE desktop icon for all users as told in Step 2 in this tutorial, the easiest way is to download the registry file and apply it to host registry, then open the key it modified (you might need to close and reopen regedit to see modified values):


(Key HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\{871C5380-42A0-1069-A2EA-08002B30301D})

Toggle between this key in host registry and the same key in temporary Offline hive, checking that you really change every value in temporary hive to match the values in online (host) key. You can of course also open the downloaded registry file in Step 2 of this tutorial and open it in Notepad to see which values need to be added / modified:

9.) When done, close registry editor and unload temporary registry hive:

reg unload HKLM\Offline

10.) Unmount the Windows image from mount folder writing changes to it:

Dism /Unmount-Image /MountDir:C:\mount /Commit

11.) If you applied registry edits to host registry but do not want to keep them, import your registry backup.

That's it. You can now create new iso from D:\ISO_Files folder as told in Step 5 in this tutorial: Create Windows 10 ISO image from Existing Installation Windows 10 Installation Upgrade Tutorials

Kari