Internet Explorer message in event viewer: access denied

• Context

After Microsoft has removed Internet Explorer 11 in June 2022, only IE-Mode (aka EMIE) remains.

For corporate devices with IE-mode, IE11 was not really fully removed.

• Issue

So, when you launch the event viewer, you end up with these error messages

• Solution

It appears that there’s a specific ACL deployed on this log that’s reponsible for this behaviour.

To get rid of this, you can delete the following registry value:

Remove-ItemProperty 'HKLM:\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\EventLog\Internet Explorer' -Name CustomSD