Removing WindowsFeedbackHub kills IE11

AGNET

AGNET

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Removing WindowsFeedbackHub from the Apps kills IE11. When launched, it can't load the first-run website and any attempts to navigate to a different page are unsuccessful, even typing in a url in the address bar does nothing, it just reverts back to the first-run page and then says Internet Explorer can't connect. The only way to get it to work is to launch iexlore.exe as an administrator, and even then it's buggy. Reactivating WindowsFeedbackHub in the apps list before building the image fixes the problem. Is that a Microsoft thing? If it is, can you include a warning for the selection that it breaks Internet Explorer if disabled?
 
Win 8 or Win10?
I have no problems with it in Win10, in left panel tweaks Settings - Users, did you enabled Protected Mode for Internet Explorer?
 
Windows 10, both Pro & Enterprise. Protected Mode enabled or disabled causes same behavior.
 
I removed the local account settings as they contained passwords, but the rest is there.
 
Your preset doesn't have any removal and only one tweak: Has been set telemetry to Security level and 24 Programs (drivers and runtimes included).
When you set telemetry to basic or security, you have to set IE1 Enhanced Protected Mode to enabled in tweaks.
 
Sorry, that was a later preset with the components already removed. I reran it clean from the raw installer folder and can confirm with the Enhanced Protected Mode AND the 64 bit processes for Enhanced Protected Mode that IE11 is stable after the install. I still think there should be a warning that when disabling WindowsFeedbackHub, that you need to enable the Enhanced Protected Mode otherwise IE11 will stop working.
 
AGNET said:
[...] and can confirm with the Enhanced Protected Mode AND the 64 bit processes for Enhanced Protected Mode that IE11 is stable after the install. I still think there should be a warning that when disabling WindowsFeedbackHub, that you need to enable the Enhanced Protected Mode otherwise IE11 will stop working.
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Maybe @nuhi can make NTLite lock & enable those 2 tweaks on WindowsFeedbackHub removal, good for less support questions because as a common user we don't pay attention to descriptions changes if we "assume" that we already know what it says.
 
Lock by Protections, that way a user can still test their removal "under certain cirumstances".
 
Thanks for the feedback guys, this looks similar to the telemetry tweak causing IE to require Enhanced Protection Mode.
Will see what can be done.
 
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