How to restore IE8 Default settings on Windows XP from a remote machine

Question

Here is my goal. This will be run on one Windows XP machine only, for trouble shooting purposes. We need to be able to remotely execute.

psexec \\computername -d -e -u domain\administrator -p password cmd /c "RunDll32.exe InetCpl.cpl,ResetIEtoDefaults"

I have tried and it will not execute.

psexec \\computername -d -e -u domain\administrator -p password cmd /c "MicrosoftFixit50195.msi /qn"

Ideally I would like to find all the reg keys that are changed when you run the fixes above, but I have searched for hours and have found nothing.

Is your real question "How do I reset IE from the command line?" — jscott, Nov 11 '14 at 03:31
Affirmative. I need a way of sitting at my machine and reset IE to its default state on a remote machine. — NobleMan, Nov 11 '14 at 03:49
Maybe you could edit your question to clarify. It has potential to be excellent Google material. — jscott, Nov 11 '14 at 03:53
Thanks @jscott I did up date the title. I actually googled my problem and it came up on the first page. — NobleMan, Nov 14 '14 at 14:43

score 3 · Answer 1 · answered Nov 11 '14 at 03:16

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Ideally I would like to find all the reg keys that are changed when you run the fixes above

You need to run Process Monitor as you run the patches.

answered Nov 11 '14 at 03:16

Ryan Ries

Ok after running the process monitor, I have decided that is not an option considering that it modified 5081 reg key values. I am back to figuring out why I cannot run either rundll32 with the parameters I have listed nor the msi file on remote xp machines. – NobleMan Nov 11 '14 at 03:48

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