Disable Smiley Feedback Button in Internet Explorer 11 in Windows 10

The Internet Explorer 11 has this unwarranted smiley button in the toolbar occasionally bothers you to send feedback to Microsoft about the browser. If you aren’t interested in doing that, you can disable it from showing up in the toolbar of the browser.

By default, you can’t disable the smiley button in the Internet Explorer 11. But, there is a simple registry trick which you can use to hide it from your view.

Disable Smiley Button in Internet Explorer 11

• Press Windows + R to open Run. Type regedit and press Enter to open the Windows Registry Editor.
• Navigate to the following key:

  HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Restrictions

• If the registry in your PC doesn’t have the Restrictions key, create one. To do that, right-click on Internet Explorer key and go to New > Key. Name it Restrictions.
• After creating the Restrictions key, select it and right-click on it. Go to New > DWORD (32-bit) Value with the name NoHelpItemSendFeedback. Set it to 1.
• Restart your PC.

That’s it. You can undo this process in a similar way. Just set the NoHelpItemSendFeedback DWORD value to 0. Restart your PC to re-enable the Feedback Smiley button in the Internet Explorer 11.