What does LCTE abbreviation mean in the user-agent string?
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; Trident/7.0; LCTE; rv:11.0) like Gecko
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According to this source from Microsoft and if you compare it to user agent strings like this from windows devices of NOKIA the position and capitalization is indicating a device manufacturer. But a Google search for a manufacturer of Windows devices named LCTE returned nothing useful.
According to this search, your type of user agent is also rare and often connected to touch devices like tablet PCs. After reviewing the agents and as I found this discussion about wrongly as mobile identified Windows touch devices like laptops and as I also found that LCTE is used in diverse hardware component names connected to displays or memory, I would conclude the following:
The string LCTE in user agents of Microsoft browsers is a result of problems retrieving the correct manufacturer from the hardware and instead, the browser is taking parts of the name of the display chipset instead. Going trough the results of this wildcard search "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; Trident/7.0; *; rv:11.0) like Gecko" the results are supporting this theory.
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Tools>Manage Addons>Show all Addons
or
search your registry for "LCTE",
Software vendors can insert 'tokens' into the userAgent string via registry entries. see Understanding UserAgent Strings - MSDN
