I have always been able to change my default search engine from Bing to Google with a simple change using WTK.... this has worked for years and at least a 1000 installs. Now all of a sudden in my latest updated images with IE11 that I sysprep I can't get it to stay with Google, Bing either takes over or the darn settings or they are corrupt and then Bing takes over. I have tried just about every registry trick/hack I could think of and read about but no happiness does anyone successfully manage this in a sysprepped image?
I have tried so many tricks, reg hacks, xml attempts etc that I have almost lost track lol... I am starting fresh today and will report back but I guess this isn't as easy at it seems.
OK so here is my 1st feedback and this will also explain part of my newest integration process: (WAY TOO MANY people to thank for providing the tools and teaching me the skills for this but THANK YOU ALL, you know who you are ) 1st I start with a Win7x64 Enterprise ISO that is untouched, then I run the latest KUC against it offline and update everything and install IE11 2nd I install this to a VBox VHD and finish all the KUC updates online until nothing is left 3rd I check Windows Update and the latest hotfix/superseded lists from Abbodi and I update the online install (also remove superseded) using scripts until WU is clean and I satisfied Abbodi's list 4th I run a simple sysprep generalize shutdown and create a new WIM from the VHD THIS IS WHAT I CONSIDER MY BASE IMAGE TO START MY TESTING
I had user that before but never heard of that additional DoNotAskAgain, I will try it but can you tell me when you actually add the entry to the reg? Do you do it at some point in your image? Where I seem to be getting killed is with my final sysprep which does a "copyprofile" and after that I have never been able to get this to work correctly.
I did numerous attempts with the XML but the darn thing would ADD the google search but never made it the default. Thats why I decided to start fresh with new images so I can really determine what works and if I made or injected any errors
OK so here is where it starts to go downhill and has me going in circles!!! I was going to test the DoNotAskAgain entry so I deleted the profiles of the 4 users I had created (left the accounts) I added the DoNotAskAgain to the reg entries above and started the exact same process and got these errors: So the obvious next step is to revert back the reg entries without the DoNotAskAgain entry... and now everytime I try the reg changes I get the errors. ARRRRRRR so I decided to delete the profiles and the users I created and reboot, then create a new user and try again with my ORIGINAL reg entries... and OF COURSE now I cant get rid of the damn errors anytime I try to change to google. So I am right back where I was yesterday Honestly I rarely complain about MS but why the heck did they have to make this SOOOOO difficult!!!
I can't get back to where I was earlier today with this image... No matter what I do I get those messages and if I don't accept them BING keeps changing everything back... what a joke... I am at a standstill and can't think anymore so I will call it a night... ready to give up
After my last attempts which all failed I admitted defeat and gave up in pure frustration Well I have just finished some new updated integration's and I am going to attempt this again with a fresh look at things.