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Microsoft Updates IE11 To Disable Enhanced Protected Mode by Default


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Microsoft's monthly "Patch Tuesday" event is happening today, and one of the updates that the company is releasing has been created for Internet Explorer 11 on Windows 8.1. As revealed in a new support page, the update will disable the browser's Enhanced Protected Mode by default.

Previously, the mode was enabled by default in both the desktop and Modern UI versions of IE11 on Windows 8.1 when the OS was released in its public preview build. The support page states, "This was done so that we could receive feedback and data about sites that use add-ons that are incompatible with Enhanced Protected Mode."

However, it appears that having that mode as the default on IE11 has served its purpose. Microsoft stated, "The data we received from our releases let us identify and work site owners and software developers to update their sites to a plug-in-free experience, or to provide new versions of their plug-ins that are compatible with Enhanced Protected Mode."

Microsoft still recommends that IE11 users enable Enhanced Protected Mode if they have any compatible add-ons installed. This can be done by going to the Internet Options menu in the browser, and then clicking on the "Enable Enhanced Protected Mode" setting on the Advanced tab.




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Strange since this option was off in previous releases of IE 10/11 too. It was, basically because when enabled HTTP doesn't work anymore and only LAN connections can be made to the browser, so I don't understand.

The Enhanced Protection Mode in the Security tab is activated by default though, and it was not disabled after the updates here.

The option in Security tab enables the sandbox feature, and the one in the Advanced tab enable "LAN only" mode. The last one was never activited by default.

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Internet Explorer 11 has seen its first major post-RTM update, bumping it up from version 11.0 to 11.0.1 with the installation of 'MS13-088: Cumulative security update for Internet Explorer'.

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Only in Win8, I guess?

My Win7 shows ; IE11 RTM KB2841134.

Do we have the last IE11 for Win7, or not??!

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Oke Tezza,so we, Win7-users ,have the RTM-version of IE11, till next update (?)

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