Disabling interent explorer

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I want to totally delete or at least completely disable Internet Explorer from my computer. I don't need IE because I have have AOL which provides good internet browsing along with good parental controls. I really want IE to not work at all on the computer, but I want to accomplish that without harming the computer of course. I've tried a couple things, but nothing works so far. Any ideas

Thanks!
 
LEAVE it ALONE!! dont do anything with it. if you dont open it it will not
bark at you!!
scotch said:
I want to totally delete or at least completely disable Internet Explorer
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from my computer. I don't need IE because I have have AOL which provides
good internet browsing along with good parental controls. I really want IE
to not work at all on the computer, but I want to accomplish that without
harming the computer of course. I've tried a couple things, but nothing
works so far. Any ideas?
 
scotch said:
I want to totally delete or at least completely disable Internet
Explorer from my computer. I don't need IE because I have have AOL
which provides good internet browsing along with good parental
controls. I really want IE to not work at all on the computer, but I
want to accomplish that without harming the computer of course. I've
tried a couple things, but nothing works so far. Any ideas?
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As I don't agree with what you are attempting to do, I will just warn you
NOW that disabling an integral part of the Microsoft systems MAY have
repercussions - even into AOL. However, since I can use Google (guessing
you cannot) - here is what I found:

Open up Notepad
Cut and paste the following into the empty Notepad window:

Code:


@echo off
C:
cd "\Program Files\Internet Explorer"
if not exist IEXPLORE.EXE goto End
if exist IEXPLORE.EX_ del IEXPLORE.EX_
if not exist IEXPLORE.DIR md IEXPLORE.DIR
if not exist IEXPLORE.DIR goto End
attrib -r -h -s IEXPLORE.EXE
ren IEXPLORE.EXE IEXPLORE.EX_
if exist IEXPLORE.EXE goto End
ren IEXPLORE.DIR IEXPLORE.EXE
echo IE disabled.
echo If prompted, click "Cancel" then "Yes" on File Protection restore.
echo Run enable-ie.bat to allow IE to run again.
:End



(The above code assumes your Windows XP is installed to your C:\ drive. If
it
isn't, change the C: beneath @echo off to the drive letter corresponding to
whichever HDD or drive partition that you have Windows XP installed to

Now save text file this as "disable-ie.bat" to your desktop, or elsewhere.
Double click on the saved "disable-ie.bat" file.

("Windows File Protection" will most likely kick in at this point, with a
warning dialog
box, saying some system files have been replaced with unrecognised versions,
and
to insert your Windows XP CD to restore them. Don't worry, it's safe to
ignore this.)

Now, everytime you try to open IE, all you'll get is an empty IE window. You
need not
even reboot your PC for these changes to take effect. The effects are
instantaneous.

If at any time, you decide you want to re-enable IE, follow these
instructions to create
another batch file that reverses the changes made by the aforementioned
batch file:

Code:


@echo off
C:
cd "\Program Files\Internet Explorer"
if not exist IEXPLORE.EX_ goto End
if not exist IEXPLORE.EXE goto Activate
attrib -r -h -s IEXPLORE.EXE
rd IEXPLORE.EXE
if exist IEXPLORE.EXE del IEXPLORE.EXE
:Activate
ren IEXPLORE.EX_ IEXPLORE.EXE
echo IE enabled.
:End



Save this as "enable-ie.bat" and put it in the same place as
"disable-ie.bat"

As before, this assumes you have Windows XP installed on your C:\ drive.
Again, if your
copy of Windows XP is not on the C:\ drive, make the same changes I
explained earlier.
 
Use the "Set Progam and Access Defaults" applet.
This is available if you have installed SP1.
If it is not on your start menu then r-click into the properties
of your start menu, and on the Start Menu tab click Customize.
Scroll down and check to have this displayed.
Now, when you use it, just select to use a Custom setting,
select what you do want as the browsers and uncheck the
box that when checked allows IE to be used.
If you really, really want to be certain, locate IExplorer.exe
and change the permissions on it (assuming you are using
NTFS filesystem) so that there is no grant of Execute to
the groups/accounts that you want to not be able to use it.
There is however no way to uninstall as its components are
an integral part of the user interface.
 
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