{"id":10478,"date":"2010-03-02T17:47:39","date_gmt":"2010-03-02T17:47:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/?p=10478"},"modified":"2010-03-02T17:47:39","modified_gmt":"2010-03-02T17:47:39","slug":"european-union-windows-browser-choice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/?p=10478","title":{"rendered":"European Union Windows Browser Choice"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/support.microsoft.com\/kb\/976002\">KB976002<\/a> describes what operating systems will receive a choice of Internet browser and how this process will work.&#160; This will bring Microsoft into compliance with the much discussed demands of the European Union on this subject.&#160; Affected OS\u2019s are:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Windows XP Service Pack 2 and Windows XP Service Pack 3 <\/li>\n<li>All editions of Windows Vista <\/li>\n<li>All editions of Windows 7 <\/li>\n<li>Future versions of the Windows client operating system that are released within the duration of the agreement with the European Commission<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Some more information on the process can be found on <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.stealthpuppy.com\/windows\/disable-the-browser-choice-screen\">Stealth Puppy<\/a>.&#160; I\u2019ve not seen the update yet but it appears to be delivered by Windows Update.&#160; If you don\u2019t have Windows Update enabled then I guess you don\u2019t get a choice.<\/p>\n<p>If you are running tightly controlled corporate PC\u2019s then you\u2019ll be glad to hear that you can prevent the update from being deployed via WSUS\/ConfigMgr\/etc.&#160; You can also use the registry, according to <a href=\"http:\/\/support.microsoft.com\/kb\/2019411\">KB2019411<\/a> (and therefore group policy) to prevent the update from executing:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Key: HKLMSoftwareBrowserChoice<\/li>\n<li>Value: Enable (REG_DWORD)<\/li>\n<li>Possible settings: Enabled = 1, Disabled = 0<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div style=\"padding-bottom: 0px; margin: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: inline; float: none; padding-top: 0px\" id=\"scid:0767317B-992E-4b12-91E0-4F059A8CECA8:dd397ea5-bbaa-498c-9376-62bf65852288\" class=\"wlWriterEditableSmartContent\">Technorati Tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tags\/Windows+Vista\" rel=\"tag\">Windows Vista<\/a>,<a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tags\/Windows+XP\" rel=\"tag\">Windows XP<\/a>,<a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tags\/Windows+7\" rel=\"tag\">Windows 7<\/a>,<a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tags\/Windows\" rel=\"tag\">Windows<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KB976002 describes what operating systems will receive a choice of Internet browser and how this process will work.&#160; This will bring Microsoft into compliance with the much discussed demands of the European Union on this subject.&#160; Affected OS\u2019s are: Windows XP Service Pack 2 and Windows XP Service Pack 3 All editions of Windows Vista &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/?p=10478\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;European Union Windows Browser Choice&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[50],"tags":[106,108,123,124],"class_list":["post-10478","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-windows-desktop","tag-windows","tag-windows-7","tag-windows-vista","tag-windows-xp"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10478","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10478"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10478\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10478"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10478"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10478"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}