It is quite annoying how there's no simple way to change the UA string,
although thankfully that's changed in Windows 10. In the meantime the link you were looking for on Google would be
this one. But since this is Windows 8.1 with Bing, it doesn't come with certain features like GPEDIT. Which means the only way to change the UA is to mess around in the registry, which is annoying at the best of times, never mind using your fingers on a touch screen. So to help fix that I put together two very simple REG files:
- One that enables mobile mode
Code:
Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Internet Settings\5.0\User Agent]
"Platform"="Mozilla/5.0 (iPhone; CPU iPhone OS 8_1 like Mac OS X)"
"Version"="AppleWebKit/600.1.4 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/8.0 Mobile/12B411 Safari/600.1.4"
- And one that disables it (if you'll ever want to)
Code:
Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Internet Settings\5.0\User Agent]
"Platform"=-
"Version"=-
All you need to do is copy and paste the above code into a text editor and save it with whatever name you want, just make sure you put
.reg at the end.
But if you don't want to do that then I've got the two files ready to go:
Enable:
https://mega.co.nz/#!kR4CiYCB!ybW8m8Y9CBOF2Ydc2xRVQX6vQq-oMziaekk3r4SRQuY
Disable:
https://mega.co.nz/#!RUxCiIwb!RFVJgsxvmp7gzNCegJPPqF0KllLpLAgf_mbgJtQSOP0
Just save them where you like and then whenever you want to enter mobile mode just double tap the "enableMobile" file. I've tested it both on my laptop and on my own Stream 7 and it's working fine. If it's not working for you then try clearing any temp files from IE and then try again.
Hope this helps somebody.
