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Can I Purge IE from my system forever?

 
 
Sher in Michigan
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      1st Sep 2004
Can I successfully purge every bit of Internet Explorer
from my system and not ever need it again? Or do other
softwares rely upon it? I do not use Outlook of any type.

Is it possible to remove this browser permanently? Even
from registry.

Do replacement browsers have the same troubles as IE?

If IE does not appear on my Add & Remove Programs list so
where is it's UNINSTALL feature?

Thanks from M!ch!gan
 
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      1st Sep 2004
"Sher in Michigan" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in
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> Can I successfully purge every bit of Internet Explorer
> from my system and not ever need it again? Or do other
> softwares rely upon it? I do not use Outlook of any type.
>
> Is it possible to remove this browser permanently? Even
> from registry.
>
> Do replacement browsers have the same troubles as IE?
>
> If IE does not appear on my Add & Remove Programs list so
> where is it's UNINSTALL feature?
>
> Thanks from M!ch!gan


There is no uninstall feature for IE. It's part of the operating system
unless you're running Win95.

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LuckyStrike
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      1st Sep 2004
In addition to the facts as laid out by Frank, you also *need IE to access
and download from Windows Updates*. There are workarounds, but not one
whereby you can get WU to scan your PC for necessary updates.

If you disable Active Scripting, and ActiveX (or at least set them to
prompt) in IE, you will have eliminated 90% of the problems which makes
people choose browsers such as Firefox. Firefox does not enable features
like ActiveX and the like. Therein lies its main security.
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"Sher in Michigan" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:03a101c4901c$42ae9c00$(E-Mail Removed)...
> Can I successfully purge every bit of Internet Explorer
> from my system and not ever need it again? Or do other
> softwares rely upon it? I do not use Outlook of any type.
>
> Is it possible to remove this browser permanently? Even
> from registry.
>
> Do replacement browsers have the same troubles as IE?
>
> If IE does not appear on my Add & Remove Programs list so
> where is it's UNINSTALL feature?
>
> Thanks from M!ch!gan



 
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      4th Oct 2004
I did not know that and so have a problem. I simply deleted the IE
executable file becuase I was having so many problems with IE, and downloaded
Netscape. Now, I'm always getting an IE popup labeled "Webpage unavailable
while online", with 2 buttons ' connect' and 'stay offline'. I have to kill
the IE process to get it off, but up pops up every couple of minutes. How
can I eliminate this problem?

By the way, I couldn't start a new thread for some reason, the 'start a new
thread' icon is not a link for me...???




"LuckyStrike" wrote:

> In addition to the facts as laid out by Frank, you also *need IE to access
> and download from Windows Updates*. There are workarounds, but not one
> whereby you can get WU to scan your PC for necessary updates.
>
> If you disable Active Scripting, and ActiveX (or at least set them to
> prompt) in IE, you will have eliminated 90% of the problems which makes
> people choose browsers such as Firefox. Firefox does not enable features
> like ActiveX and the like. Therein lies its main security.
> --
>
> LuckyStrike
> (E-Mail Removed)
>
> How to make a good newsgroup post:
> http://www.dts-l.org/goodpost.htm
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> "Sher in Michigan" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
> news:03a101c4901c$42ae9c00$(E-Mail Removed)...
> > Can I successfully purge every bit of Internet Explorer
> > from my system and not ever need it again? Or do other
> > softwares rely upon it? I do not use Outlook of any type.
> >
> > Is it possible to remove this browser permanently? Even
> > from registry.
> >
> > Do replacement browsers have the same troubles as IE?
> >
> > If IE does not appear on my Add & Remove Programs list so
> > where is it's UNINSTALL feature?
> >
> > Thanks from M!ch!gan

>
>
>

 
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