With the release of Internet Explorer 9, Microsoft has released Internet Explorer Administration Kit 9 which can be used specifically to customize your browser. With this application you can manage user settings after Internet Explorer 9 deployment like custom customer support page, customize Users’ home page, edit and set your choice of search providers, customization of Favorites bar,  Add-on Components page for additional components and functionalities ,Add Web Slices, Accelerators . In short you can decide how your web browser should be.

Some things which you can do with Admin Kit are:

1. Distribution options: Decide how you want to deploy the browser whether from LAN or a storage media. You can also completely avoid any software from updating codes in client’s pc or machines.

2. Custom components: Add custom application and software’s and link to browser.

3. Setup experience: Control the basic user level settings, browser security settings and many more.

4. Search experience: Decide which search provider you want and set that.

5. Browser experience: Customize your welcome page, default homepage, feeds, links, toolbars etc.

6. Administrator-approved Microsoft ActiveX controls: Decide what to run and what not to by configuring the active x.

7. Automatic configuration: Automatic settings of user browser, set intervals and many more.

Internet Explorer Administration Kit 9 is available in multiple languages and supports Windows 7, Windows Server 2008, and Windows Vista SP2.

You can download this here: Internet Explorer Administration Kit 9