Dear Carl,
Thank you for your update. I am glad that this problem was resolved
successfully.
When you enable the "Disable the General Tab" group policy, the system just
adds the [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Policies\Microsoft\Internet
Explorer\Control Panel\GeneralTab] registry value and sets it to 1. When
you click the "Internet Options" menu item, IE will check whether this
registry value is 1. If it is 1, the General tab will not be displayed.
This is to say, if some third party applications add this registry value
you will experience this issue. It is not required that you modify the
group policy through the user interface.
I hope that the above information can be of assistance.
Best regards,
Laura Zhang
Microsoft Online Support Engineer
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| Laura,
|
| The fix was to follow the regedit instructions. I found
| that KB article 272449, referred to here in another
| thread was the answer. While it talks about
| the 'connectionstab", the General, and program tabs are
| under the same key.
|
| I wonder what changed this, I am not running the Group
| Policy, so it is strange.
|
| Thanks for the prompt reply,
|
| Carl
| >-----Original Message-----
| >Dear Carl,
| >
| >Thank you for your post.
| >
| >Based on my research, this problem may occur when
| the "Disable the General
| >Page" group policy is enabled. When this group policy is
| enabled, the
| >General tab is removed from the interface in
| the "Internet Options" dialog
| >box.
| >
| >Let us perform the following steps to check this group
| policy:
| >
| >1. Type "gpedit.msc" in the Run box to launch Group
| Policy.
| >2. Check whether the following group policy is
| enabled. If so, please
| >disable this policy.
| >
| >User Configuration\Administrative Template\Windows
| Components\Internet
| >Explorer\Disable the General page
| >
| >Does it work now? If this issue continues, please check
| the following
| >registry value and ensure the following registry value
| is 0:
| >
| >[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Policies\Microsoft\Internet
| Explorer\Control
| >Panel\GeneralTab]
| >
| >If anything is unclear, please feel free to post back.
| >
| >Best regards,
| >
| >Laura Zhang
| >Microsoft Online Support Engineer
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| >| For some strange reason, when I right click the IE
| icon,
| >| and select properties, the "General" tab is now
| missing,
| >| making it impossible to set my home page, or, delete
| the
| >| temp files.
| >|
| >| This occurs when I log on to the machine locally, if I
| >| log on to the domain, it is ok. The machine is running
| XO
| >| Pro, with SP1.
| >|
| >| Anyone have an idea what may have happened?
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