Thanks John,… I really did look for Internet Explorer FeatureControls in the HKLM hive, but did not find them.
You caught me!
In the MSDN page I linked to in the 2nd post of this thread, I never noticed the “or” in the registry keypath statements.
Looking in them, I now realize I have 3 different emulation settings on machine. This results from installing 4 SketchUp versions, out of order (with respect to their release date.)
I installed SU2014 first, I think. Then SU2015, when after it. Because I had to test a old plugin specifically on SU2013, I installed it next. Then later a reported bug for a plugin running on SU8, prompted me to install SU8, last.
Anyway… so, reading more closely,… and following links up the document chain to the introductory document:
https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms537184(v=vs.85).aspx
gives:
Many Feature Control keys can also be controlled by network administrators by using Group Policy. When a group policy is modified, a value similar to the one above is written to the policy hive in the Windows registry.
Because Feature Controls can be configured in multiple places, Internet Explorer will look for values in the following order of precedence:
- HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE policy hive (administrative overrides)
- HKEY_CURRENT_USER policy hive
- HKEY_CURRENT_USER preference hive
- HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE preference hive (system default settings)
So HKEY_CURRENT_USER has precedence anyway.
I see no policy settings for MSIE, in the following policy key locations:
-
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Group Policy
-
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies
-
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Group Policy
-
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies
-
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Group Policy
-
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies
*In fact these keys do not even have a “Internet Explorer
” sub-key.
Note, also that the User hive has next to nothing under the HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\
key, as bitness is a system level concern.