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Having a Windows OS without Internet Explorer

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When you uninstall Internet Explorer from Windows 7 do you still need to keep it up to date anymore or is it totally gone for good ?
 
Well, AFAIK you cant totally remove it. It will still be default for file explorer etc.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Removal_of_Internet_Explorer
As of build 7048 of Windows 7, Microsoft added the ability to safely remove Internet Explorer 8 from Windows.[2] The dependencies are not removed through this process, but the Internet Explorer executable (iexplore.exe) is removed without harming any other Windows components.

Simply installing and using another browser does not prevent third party programs and core operating system components from using IE libraries. Thus, a user who does not use IE to browse the Web can still be targeted by attacks against vulnerabilities in these libraries—for instance, via Outlook Express or the Windows Help subsystem. However, removing the IE libraries will cause these programs, and other software which depends upon them, to cease functioning or even to crash the system.

Removing Internet Explorer does have a number of consequences. Some programs bundled with Windows, such as Outlook Express, and some basic Windows components, such as Help and Support, depend on libraries installed by IE in order to function. With IE removed, they may fail to work, or exhibit unexpected behavior. Several common 3rd party applications, Intuit's Quicken being a typical example, depend heavily upon the HTML rendering components installed by the browser. For this reason, most of the IE removal utilities offer the compromise option of removing large parts of IE while still leaving behind the HTML rendering engine or "IE core," which allows many of these 3rd party applications to function normally. Also, in versions of Windows before Vista, it is also not possible to run Microsoft's Windows Update or Microsoft Update with any other browser due to the service's implementation of an ActiveX control, which no other browser supports. In Windows Vista, Windows Update is implemented as a Control Panel applet.
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http://lifehacker.com/5164286/windows-7-lets-you-finally-uninstall-internet-explorer-kinda
Since Internet Explorer's rendering engine is also used throughout Windows and with third-party applications as an embeddable component, it won't completely uninstall—only the executable is actually removed. Still, being able to finally banish IE proper from your system is a pretty good start for folks who really don't like IE.
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Thanks guess that means I must keep Internet Explorer up to date still. Figured. Oh well there just is no way to truly get rid of it all together sense it is built into Windows from the ground up.
 
It can be done, but you will not be able to do it without having a lot of applications start posting event logs. I don't think people realize how often the ie dll files are called for applications that have absolutely nothing to do with the internet, or anything online. ieframe is one of the most common ones.
 
I'm assuming that Windows Update will patch the .DLLs without any special effort. But maybe not if Windows Update finds I.E. gone. I don't know.
 
RebateMonger said:
I'm assuming that Windows Update will patch the .DLLs without any special effort. But maybe not if Windows Update finds I.E. gone. I don't know.
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Not patching the core library if the shell is missing would be such an egregious error that I doubt even MS could manage to commit it.
 
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