Microsoft will keep reminding old IE users from March 13, next January: upgrading IE 11 quickly

Microsoft will keep reminding old IE users from March 13, next January: upgrading IE 11 quickly

Microsoft will suspend support for earlier IE browsers except for IE 11 from January 1, January 12, 2016. The goal is to encourage everyone to upgrade to Windows 10 and Edge browsers quickly, at least to IE 11, to improve security and reduce the maintenance difficulty. Of course, this kind of encouragement will not be useful. If you don't want to upgrade, it will still not, so Microsoft is ready to do some tricks.

Microsoft quietly published a knowledge base announcement numbered KB3123303, titled"Notification of end of life update for IE browser"(The new" End of Life "upgrade notification for Internet Explorer ).

According to announcements,Microsoft will push a cumulative IE Security patch to Windows 7 SP and Windows Server January 12, 2016 R2 SP1 users on October 13, 2008. In addition to fixing vulnerabilities, if your browser is IE8, IE9, or IE10, this patch will remind you to upgrade to IE 11.

If you do not want to be disturbed, Microsoft also provides a reminder-free method. You need to edit the registry.

1. Open the run or search box of the Start Menu, enter regedit, and click OK.

2. Expand HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE \ SOFTWARE \ Microsoft \ Internet Explorer \ Main \ FeatureControl \ FEATURE_DISABLE_IE11_UPGRADE_TAB_LAUNCH in sequence.

3. Right-click FeatureControl and choose New DWORD (32-bit.

Then, enter iexplore.exe and click OK.

5、double-click the newly created iexplore.exe, enter 1 in the value data box, and then click OK.

6. Exit Registry Editor and restart IE browser.

7. For a 64-bit system, expand HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE \ SOFTWARE \ Wow6432Node \ Microsoft \ Internet Explorer \ Main \ FeatureControl \ FEATURE_DISABLE_IE11_UPGRADE_TAB_LAUNCH in sequence, and then repeat Step 3-5.