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Cannot remove registry key for Mozilla 4.0. Keeps populating even after uninstall

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smartcpa
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registry key keeps coming back after unistall and delete from registry, and turning off system restore in system. HKEY_USERS\S-1-5-21-1078081533-179605362-1801674531-1115\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Internet Settings\User Agent\Post Platform In that key: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; SV1)

This causes web sites to report that I am running IE 6 when in fact i am running IE8.

registry key keeps coming back after unistall and delete from registry, and turning off system restore in system. HKEY_USERS\S-1-5-21-1078081533-179605362-1801674531-1115\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Internet Settings\User Agent\Post Platform In that key: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; SV1) This causes web sites to report that I am running IE 6 when in fact i am running IE8.

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user633449
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That is an internet explorer issue (see the MSIE 6.0 part). Microsoft labels their User Agent Mozilla/ x for website compatibility, for it isn't related to Firefox at all. You can see a list of all the Internet Explorer user Agent strings http://www.useragentstring.com/pages/Internet%20Explorer/. Unfortunately, there isn't much I can do to help you, but you can try to reset Internet Explorer, http://support.microsoft.com/kb/923737.