How to change the agent string in IE

Here’s a snippet of my referrer logs:

Ever wonder what NET CLR 1.0.3705 in your referrer logs means? So did I.
I found out that it’s the version of the .Net Framework Internet Explorer (IE) has installed on the computer looking at your page.
Thanks to Google I learned how to change this string to whatever I want.
I wrote up a page on Changing IE Agent Strings as a reference for others.
There has got to be other cool hacks of the agent strings and other data that is passed to web servers by browsers.
Let the fun begin…

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  1. Actually Mike, I discovered that all you have to do is create an additional registry entry at that key and you’ll still get the .NET CLR customization.
    Every single entry from that Key gets tacked onto the User Agent string.
    For instance, I have ‘.Net CLR 1.0.3705’ and ‘.NET CLR 1.1.4322’ at that key. In your logs, you should see my UA string with those two entries plus my special whammy entry.
    I would recommend not modifying the entries that currenly exist in there.

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