Blog Articles Tagged with “dell”

    If you have recently bought a Dell laptop (like me), you may have noticed that browsing to http://msn.com will result in a redirection to http://dell.msn.com. The fact that it's redirecting isn't such a big issue for me personally, however I do not like the fact that there is no transparent way of disabling this.


    After diving into some Internet Explorer log files, I discovered that some custom branding was applied when first running the browser.
    In C:\Users\\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\brndlog.txt something like this will be present:


    Code
    1. 03/09/2010 21:16:54 Branding Internet Explorer...
    2. 03/09/2010 21:16:54 Command line is "/ins:"C:\Program Files (x86)\Internet Explorer\Signup\install.ins" "


    The file "install.ins" is executed when Internet Explorer is ran for the first time or when all IE settings are reset (Extra -> Options -> Advanced -> Reset Internet Explorer

    Read More