Solved InPrivate Filtering-back to turn on... screen

[prukeyhi]

hi all
i started to use InPrivate Filtering wizard and choose the 1st option "block for me"
now i would like to get back the wizard main windows like in the photo. how can i do it?

 

[BCXtreme]

hi all
i started to use InPrivate Filtering wizard and choose the 1st option "block for me"
now i would like to get back the wizard main windows like in the photo. how can i do it?

I don't think you can get that screen back (at least not easily), but you can change the setting another way. Go to Tools >> Toolbars >> Menu Bar. Then in the Menu Bar (while File, Edit, View, etc, are), go to Tools >> InPrivate Filtering Settings. In the window that comes up, you can choose "Automatically block" or "Choose content to block or allow", which are the same as the two options in the wizard screen.

Hope this helps!

 

[A Guy]

I always recommend Brink's fine tutorials for great visuals as well:

http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/1371-internet-explorer-inprivate-filtering-turn-off.html

A Guy

 

[prukeyhi]

thanks you both for your answer,
i know about InPrivate Filtering Settings. i just wonder if i can get back the wizard main windows

 

[A Guy]

thanks you both for your answer,
i know about InPrivate Filtering Settings. i just wonder if i can get back the wizard main windows

I suspect that is a 1st time usage window. You can do everything you can do from there through the setup. Try turning it off and see when turn in back on again? A Guy

 

[prukeyhi]

NO,
1st time usage window did not turn in back on again
any other idea?

 

[G1LLY]

Try Ctrl + Shift + F (Brings up the screen in your OP).

Works for me on IE8, sorry if it's not what your wanting.

 

[prukeyhi]

Ctrl + Shift + F doesn't bring the initial screen, it just turns on/off InPrivate Filtering on the task bar(green curved arrow)

 

[G1LLY]

Right, sorry I've misunderstood what your after here, in your OP you said you wanted the screen in the picture you attached.

On my IE8 pressing Ctrl + Shift + F brings up that exact screen in your post, there must be another screen I'm unaware of that your after.

Sorry for giving you the wrong information, hope someone else here can help with your problem.

 

[BCXtreme]

Right, sorry I've misunderstood what your after here, in your OP you said you wanted the screen in the picture you attached.

On my IE8 pressing Ctrl + Shift + F brings up that exact screen in your post, there must be another screen I'm unaware of that your after.

Sorry for giving you the wrong information, hope someone else here can help with your problem.

That's because the screen in the OP only comes up when you first activate InPrivate. Once you've gone through that screen, it won't come up again.

Prukeyhi, out of curiosity, why is it that you want to get that screen back?

Hopefully this afternoon I can do some intense study of IE8 and figure out a solution for you. We basically need to trick IE8 into thinking you have never enabled InPrivate before.

 

[G1LLY]

That's because the screen in the OP only comes up when you first activate InPrivate. Once you've gone through that screen, it won't come up again.

Prukeyhi, out of curiosity, why is it that you want to get that screen back?

Hopefully this afternoon I can do some intense study of IE8 and figure out a solution for you. We basically need to trick IE8 into thinking you have never enabled InPrivate before.

Could the user not just reset IE using the button marked in the attached image then go from there?

Tools > Internet Options > Advanced > Reset

 

[prukeyhi]

G1LLY, no problemo
**did you tried your above suggestion?

BCXtreme,
i want to get that screen back because i do not like it when i can not control IE8 mainly and out of curiosity as well.
Hope you'll find a way to restore it.

p.s- i thought resetting IE8 to it's default setting will do it - but it did not. maybe you can test this issue too.

Thanks

 

[BCXtreme]

That's because the screen in the OP only comes up when you first activate InPrivate. Once you've gone through that screen, it won't come up again.

Prukeyhi, out of curiosity, why is it that you want to get that screen back?

Hopefully this afternoon I can do some intense study of IE8 and figure out a solution for you. We basically need to trick IE8 into thinking you have never enabled InPrivate before.

Could the user not just reset IE using the button marked in the attached image then go from there?

Tools > Internet Options > Advanced > Reset

That's possible, but I have no idea how selective it allows you to be in what exactly is reset.

OP, if you're going to try that, be very careful because that button could easily erase other IE data that you would want to keep.

 

[BCXtreme]

This forum needs to tell you when more responses came up while you were typing!

Will definitely look at it later.

 

[BCXtreme]

Okay, I even tried completely disabling/re-enabling Internet Explorer, and it still wouldn't really reset. This kind of setting must be stored somewhere that is not affected by anything else you do to IE8.

Does anyone else know where IE8 stores its settings in the Windows file system?

 

[Greg S]

Does anyone else know where IE8 stores its settings in the Windows file system?

I would imagine that in the registry under software/microsoft/internet explorer that there would be a key of first run or run once or something similar. Changing the value of it should initiate that again.

Also there is a key Saftey/PrivacIE with a string of ShowFirstRun and a value of 0. You might change it to 1 and see what flies. I don't know if this is for InPrivateBrowsing or InPrivateFiltering or both but it can't hurt to try it especially if your values are already set. Values meaning Start mode and data. I'm guessing it's InPrivateFiltering though.

 

[A Guy]

I'm sorry as well, when I said I suspect that is a 1st time usage window, the second sentence was not meant as a way to return to the window. As others suggested, that window, as is often the case with "wizards" will only run once. But almost always all the settings available there are available within the actual program, just not on one logical screen as in the wizard. A Guy

 

[prukeyhi]

Greg S,
i did not find any key of first run or run once
hopeBCXtreme will find out something.....

 

[Greg S]

Greg S,
i did not find any key of first run or run once
hopeBCXtreme will find out something.....

Try here in the registry. This is the closest thing I could find

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Safety\PrivacIE

Right side pane ShowFirstRun

Before changing anything in the registry at that location, right click the key and select "Export", save it somewhere you can easily find for a quick import.

 

[BCXtreme]

Greg S,
i did not find any key of first run or run once
hopeBCXtreme will find out something.....

Try here in the registry. This is the closest thing I could find

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Safety\PrivacIE

Right side pane ShowFirstRun

Before changing anything in the registry at that location, right click the key and select "Export", save it somewhere you can easily find for a quick import.

The above solution posted by Greg S works in my test environment. Change that ShowFirstRun value from 0 to 1 and you're good to go!