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I understand the purpose for InPrivate Browser, but how, or can, I turn it
off. I'm the mother of young teenagers who sometimes have internet access
w/o supervision. They need to know that I can check up on them.

On Tue, 6 Oct 2009 18:48:01 -0700, GoGo
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>I understand the purpose for InPrivate Browser, but how, or can, I turn it
>off. I'm the mother of young teenagers who sometimes have internet access
>w/o supervision. They need to know that I can check up on them.

You do not say what version of windows you are using and the method of
blocking InPrivate browsing will depend on that.

Go to:-

http://www.computing.net/answers/win...ng/176242.html

and scroll down to "Response Number 3"

If, when you enter "GPEDIT.MSC " you get a message saying that windows
cannot find it then your version of Windows does not have that
program.

The thing to do then is to edit the registry - NOT for the faint
hearted!!

Before you do this, make a "System Restore" point so that you can
revert your system to before you made the registry changes.

Also close all instances of IE that are open.

Now open Notepad (or similar text editor) and enter these lines:-



Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Int ernet
Explorer\Privacy]
"EnableInPrivateBrowsing"=dword:00000000




Copy and paste them to make sure that they are right.

Now save the file with a name like:-

inprivateturnoff.reg

Now double click the icon for the saved file. You will get some sort
of warning message about the registry. Click "Yes".

Next time you open IE it should have the "InPrivateBrowsing" option
greyed out - i.e. unusable.

*** But beware!! - Most teenagers would be able to reverse the
process!!!

If you want to re-enable InPrivate Browsing then make another file
called

inprivateturnon.reg

exaclty the same as the above but with just the end of the last line
changed as follows:-



Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Int ernet
Explorer\Privacy]
"EnableInPrivateBrowsing"=dword:00000001







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Stubbo of Oz
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Hello. I am having trouble (re)enabling Inprivate Browsing using this (and other) methods

I am running Windows Vista Home Premium (SP 2) on an HP Pavilion dv4 Notebook (64-bit OS) using IE 8.0.6001.18975. I recently installed Windows Live 2011, was unhappy with it for various reasons so uninstalled it and reinstalled Windows Live 9. WL9 is functioning but I can no longer access InPrivate viewing (it is grayed out in the menu). I tried the following procedures as recommended in various chat sites:

Create [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Int ernet Explorer\Privacy]
"EnableInPrivateBrowsing"=dword:00000001

There was no “Internet Explorer\Privacy” key under “Microsoft” so I created it to place the dword value in (as suggested)

This had no effect so I Reset IE under the Advanced tab in Internet Options (as suggested). Still no InPrivate Browsing.

Finally I uninstalled and then reinstalled IE 8. Still no change.

Now I have learned that there are 2 versions of IE on my computer: 32bit and 64 bit (yes, I am one of those novices that knows just enough to be dangerous).

The 64-bit DOES have InPrivate Browsing but the 32-bit does not.

I created two shortcuts, one for each version to open them up directly in InPrivate mode:

"C:\Program Files (x86)\Internet Explorer\iexplore.exe" –private
"C:\Program Files\Internet Explorer\iexplore.exe" –private

the 64 shortcut works but the 32 shortcut does not open IE. So something is still missing in my 32-bit IE program.

Any other suggestions/ideas? I appreciate any help you can offer.