If you plan to go down the resetting local GP route, I discovered recently for another project that Win7 no longer offers a way to reset back to factory defaults (using the method that XP used to allow). However, what you could do, is export the configuration from a "good" Win7 system and import that configuration on the "bad" Win7 system. Here are the steps I took for my project:
>From the good/reference system, run: secedit /export /cfg secConfGood.inf >From the bad system, run: secedit /configure /db secedit.sdb /cfg secConfGood.inf /overwrite Here's the MS KB article that indicates that it is not supported to reset a Win7 system back to factory default state using secedit (under the "Limitations of importing default security templates" section): http://support.microsoft.com/kb/313222 However, I will say that I've never seen the IE GPs affect only the 32bit or 64bit version of IE - anytime I've applied GPs, it applies it to both the 32bit and 64bit versions. It may also be worth trying to run sfc /scannow just in case too. And as Roger suggested, trying IE10 would be worthwhile too. -Aakash Shah From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of James Rankin Sent: Monday, October 21, 2013 1:05 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [NTSysADM] IE will not run 32 bit Sounds like some screwy GPOs or security settings....IIRC is there some sort of secedit command you can run to reset everything? On 21 October 2013 20:53, Dave Vantine <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: I have a customer who's computer recently will not run IE 9 32bit on Win 7 64bit. When you open the application the browser just does nothing and no errors. Also the tools options are grayed out from within the browser but you can make changes in the control panel. It can run IE 64 bit fine just not the 32 bit version. Ran Kaspersky Rescue CD and Malware bytes and nothing is found. Removed IE 9 and IE 8 does the exact same thing. Ran IE with no add-ons and still does not run Ran Windows in safe-mode with networking still does not run in 32bit mode. Have no clue what could possibly be causing this and I have never seen any system with these symptoms before. Any ideas Thanks -Dave Vantine -- James Rankin Technical Consultant (ACA, CCA, MCTS) http://appsensebigot.blogspot.co.uk
