seems you should be able just to import the key, but I dunno, what kind of smartie am I anyway? to skip the authentication is to go to tool menu>Manage Add-ons then select from dropdown: Add-ons that have been used by Internet Explorer scroll down to Windows Genuine Advantage, select it and then select the disable button down below click OK, then exit Internet Explorer, and it will be disabled no more annoyances. except when you go to microsoft update, it will do a little popup saying that the website tried to use a disabled plugin when I follow the above procedure, it creates a key like this [HKEY_USERS\S-1-5-21-527237240-682003330-725345543-1003\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Ext\Settings\{17492023-C23A-453E-A040-C7C580BBF700}] "Flags"=dword:00000001 "Version"="*" thus my assumption that it is unique to each computer