PolicyMaker and Internet Explorer 7

If you are working with PolicyMaker Registry Extension, or any of the other PolicyMaker products, you will find the Microsoft Management Console will crash when you select the User Settings / Registry node when editing the Group Policy on machine that also has Internet Explorer 7 installed. If you look at the crash details you will see that the fault is with MSHTML.DLL.

Fortunately there is a work around until the next version of PolicyMaker is released to address the issue. The DesktopStandard knowledgebase has details on the issue and the workaround:

SYMPTOMS:
When PolicyMaker is installed on a computer with Internet Explorer 7 also installed, attempting to configure PolicyMaker items in the GPMC results in the following error message:

Event ID: 1000 Faulting application mmc.exe, version 5.1.600.2180, faulting module mshtml.dll, version 7.0.5730.11,
fault address 0x00156e17

RESOLUTION:
This will be fixed in the next release of PolicyMaker products.

As a workaround, Internet Explorer 7 should be uninstalled, or the PolicyMaker snapin should be installed on a computer that does not have Internet Explorer 7 installed. Alternatively, you can disable the PolicyMaker extended view tab in the MMC. This prevents the errors and still allows you to edit PolicyMaker items.

Simply rename the following Registry keys:

HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\{45B01F1C-5AC2-458C-9457-42A81B34A26D}
HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\{{A8EEA101-3610-4D97-A8AE-E88E50DD5488}
HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\{{6EA87A55-745F-4c28-8DDC-B679A68E3E01}

The easiest thing to do is add a dash to the end of the key name, so it will be disabled, but you can easily find it to re-enable it later. Note that you may not have all three of these keys, if you don’t have all of our products installed. Just rename the ones that you have.

Tagged as: Internet-Explorer, PolicyMaker