Here's the issue we're running to throughout our domain. Last week we deployed Internet Explorer 9 via WSUS to all our domain PCs. At first we didn't think there were any issues but we soon discovered any domain user or admin logging into a station for the first time windows will auto default to IE 9 64 bit.. Users with profiles on the machines before the roll out for some reason remained unaffected by this and windows defaults to 32 bit auto for them... But if we clear their profile off the machine again we're able to recreate this scenario where windows auto defaults to 64 bit. Launching the 32 bit version from the start menu launches the 64 bit version because the shortcut for it auto points to the 64 bit location.
The only way we've been able to remedy this on a per user basis that works every time is by having the user logged in, going to their start menu and changing the 32bit shortcut from C:\program files\internet explorer\iexplore.exe to C:\program files(x86)\internet explorer\iexplore.exe. Now from here we can finally re-pin the icon for that specific user while terminal server'ed in with them and it fixes the problem.. We can also go direct to C:\Program Files (x86)\Internet Explorer and pin the icon from here which also seems to fix it. But still in the start menu the shortcut would be incorrect if we didn't change that. IE will default 32 bit through the pin and through the IE shortcuts on the desktop once these changes are made.
What we're looking for is a solution we can roll out to the few hundred stations\users we have.. We constantly have users moving around so we need something we can either deploy through psexec, GPO, etc. Any ideas would be much appreciated.