This is from the “wish I knew about this sooner…” department.
Microsoft released earlier this year the Internet Explorer 10 Blocker Toolkit for Windows (x86 and x64) and Windows 2008 R2 SP1. This patch does not pertain to networks that are running an update management tool, such as WSUS, that provides the ability to block IE10 from being rolled out.
For all other workstations, you can download and run this tool manually from each workstation. The tool is a .EXE file that contains three files to be extracted.
- Create or identify a temp folder to be used (e.g. c:\temp)
- Download and run the IE10 Blocker Toolkit.
- Click Yes and then select the temp folder from step 1 to extract the three files
- Open up an elevated command prompt, and use the CD command to switch to the temp folder
- Type ie10_blocker.cmd /B and press Enter to set the block for IE10.
- Check that you receive “The operation completed successfully” message, and then close the command prompt window.
As a reminder, IE10 is only pushed out for Windows 7/2008R2 and above. So, there’s no need to run this command script on Windows XP or Vista or Windows Server 2003.