[Windows 10 Tip] Registry Tweak to Disable “Send Feedback” (Smiley) Button in Internet Explorer Toolbar

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A few months back we told you how to remove "Send a Smile or Frown" button (also known as Send Feedback icon) from Internet Explorer 11 toolbar in Windows 10 operating system. You can tread more about the tutorial at following link:

 

[Tip] Remove "Send a Smile" (Feedback) Button from Internet Explorer 11 in Windows 10

 

The above mentioned tutorial required use of Resource Hacker tool to modify a system file "ieframe.dll" to remove the smiley and other toolbar buttons in Internet Explorer.

 

 

Today an AskVG reader "Franek" shared a simple Registry tweak to remove this "Send Feedback" or "Send a Smile" button from IE11 toolbar quickly and easily and in this tutorial, we are going to share the same Registry tweak for interested people.

 

Actually this Registry tweak exists since long time and it was used to remove "Send Feedback" option from Help menu in older Internet Explorer versions. Fortunately the same Registry tweak still works in IE11 for disabling the Smiley button in the toolbar.

 

If you also want to get rid of the "Send a Smile" button from Internet Explorer toolbar in Windows 10, following steps will help you:

 

1. Press WIN+R keys together to launch RUN dialog box. Now type regedit in RUN and press Enter. It'll open Registry Editor.

2. Now go to following key:

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft

 

3. Under Microsoft key, create a new key and set its name as Internet Explorer

4. Now create another new key under the new Internet Explorer key and set its name as Restrictions

So the final path would be:

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Restrictions

 

5. Now select Restrictions key and in right-side pane, create a new DWORD NoHelpItemSendFeedback and set its value to 1 to remove Send a Smile button from Internet Explorer toolbar.

 

 

Now you can check Internet Explorer and you'll no longer see the Smiley in the toolbar.

 

NOTE: If you want to re-enable Smiley button in IE toolbar, either delete the NoHelpItemSendFeedback DWORD or set its value to 0 and it'll immediately start showing the smiley button in IE toolbar.

 

PS: If you are not familiar with Registry editing and want a ready-made Registry script to do the task automatically, download following ZIP file, extract it and run the extracted REG file. It'll ask for confirmation, accept it:

Download Registry Script to Remove Send a Smile Button from IE Toolbar

 

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