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Downgrading from IE11 to IE10 viia batch file

I need to downgrade users from IE11 to IE10 and then install the IEtoolkit file that will block future upgrades.  I would like to do this via a batch file.

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To uninstall Microsoft Internet Explorer 11, you may use the Windows Update Standalone Installer (Wusa.exe), which can be used to deploy or remove Microsoft patches. Wusa.exe is available in the following Windows operating systems and is located in the %windir%\System32 folder

    Windows Vista
    Windows Server 2008
    Windows 7
    Windows Server 2008 R2
    Windows 8
    Windows Server 2012


The command below will uninstall Internet Explorer 11 silently with auto-reboot

wusa.exe /uninstall /kb:2841134 /quiet

Additional switches are available:

/warnrestart
/forcerestart
/norestart

Type wusa /? in the command prompt for further details.

For blocking IE11 from Installing you can use a simple registry entry, you can use the following command on the remote computer so IE11 would not install.

reg add "HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Setup\11.0" /v DoNotAllowIE11 /t REG_DWORD /d 1 /F

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@Qlemo,

Fair enough, I agree.

Sudeep
> FORFILES is not part of Windows
Oh yes, it is. It is a part of windows on all OS' where windows IE10/11 can be installed.
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Here's what I used:

FORFILES /P %WINDIR%\servicing\Packages /M Microsoft-Windows-InternetExplorer-*11.*.mum /c "cmd /c echo Uninstalling package @fname && start /w pkgmgr /up:@fname /norestart"

start "" /wait "c:\IE11_BlockerToolkit.exe"
start "" /wait "c:\sigplus.exe"

SET /P ANSWER=Do you want to restart (Y/N)?
echo You chose: %ANSWER%
if /i {%ANSWER%}=={y} (goto :yes)
if /i {%ANSWER%}=={yes} (goto :yes)
goto :no
:yes
echo Shutting down in 5 seconds
shutdown.exe /r /t 05 /f

It did exactly what I needed it to do and since I didn't use "echo off", I could monitor the progress.

Thank you donnk!