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Can I uninstall IE from Xp Home?

Anubis

Anubis

No Lifer
fixed a friends comp., 1000+ spywares and adawres few virii, fixed all that fine, but IE will just randomally encounter an error and have to close, windows is up to date and such and comp is all clean, is there a way to uninstall IE and then reinstall it?

its not in the add remove programs
 
Have your buddy dump IE. It's pretty much junk by now anyway. MS has really done almost nothing with it in several years, until SP2, and in my view it's too little, too late. Help him install Mozilla.


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Originally posted by: manly
Only if you move to Europe. 😉
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eh?

yes i knoe IE sucks i wouldent use it if you paied me, however hes not too bright, and probibily wont be able to figure out firefox or opera
 
yes i knoe IE sucks i wouldent use it if you paied me, however hes not too bright, and probibily wont be able to figure out firefox or opera
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If he's really that stupid he probably won't know the difference, it's a web browser not a scientific calculator.
 
Originally posted by: Kiwi
Have your buddy dump IE. It's pretty much junk by now anyway. MS has really done almost nothing with it in several years, until SP2, and in my view it's too little, too late. Help him install Mozilla.


:beer:
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If by dump you mean remove completely, bad idea. You cannot do a manual update through Microsoft's site w/o it.
 
Originally posted by: dnuggett
If by dump you mean remove completely, bad idea. You cannot do a manual update through Microsoft's site w/o it.
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It takes beaucoup effort to get rid of all of IE, but it most certainly is possible to obtain update files for the Windows OS and for MS Office without using IE; you just can't do updating interactively. I'd just kill all short cuts of any nature leading to IE -- isolate the critter totally, and never update it again. Mozilla is better in just about every way, and in my view, is easier to work in.



:music:
 
Originally posted by: Kiwi
Originally posted by: dnuggett
If by dump you mean remove completely, bad idea. You cannot do a manual update through Microsoft's site w/o it.
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It takes beaucoup effort to get rid of all of IE, but it most certainly is possible to obtain update files for the Windows OS and for MS Office without using IE; you just can't do updating interactively. I'd just kill all short cuts of any nature leading to IE -- isolate the critter totally, and never update it again. Mozilla is better in just about every way, and in my view, is easier to work in.



:music:
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I agree.. I use a MOOX build of Firefox exclusively. My point was that you cannot run the update through their auto update feature on the website.

 
I've been told that you can tell Mozilla to report itself as Internet Explorer when it goes to a web site. This supposedly will then let the Windows update work with Mozilla.
 
Originally posted by: redbeard1
I've been told that you can tell Mozilla to report itself as Internet Explorer when it goes to a web site. This supposedly will then let the Windows update work with Mozilla.
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You can get opera to do that too, but it still won't work. Windows update is built into IE, you can't even close IE while windows update runs. Plus, though Mozilla and Opera can say they are something else, I've seen websites still detect what browser you run regardless.
 
Originally posted by: Anubis
fixed a friends comp., 1000+ spywares and adawres few virii, fixed all that fine, but IE will just randomally encounter an error and have to close, windows is up to date and such and comp is all clean, is there a way to uninstall IE and then reinstall it?

its not in the add remove programs
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What's THIS then. 😉
 
Originally posted by: Budman
Originally posted by: Anubis
fixed a friends comp., 1000+ spywares and adawres few virii, fixed all that fine, but IE will just randomally encounter an error and have to close, windows is up to date and such and comp is all clean, is there a way to uninstall IE and then reinstall it?

its not in the add remove programs
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What's THIS then. 😉
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That removes all shortcuts to IE, same with the one below where you see Windows Media player. It simply removes the short cuts and that is all.
 
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