erasing IE

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richk said:
How can I completely get rid of Internet Explorer
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Off-hand, I don't know but I'm curious: why do you want to remove IE?
Btw, it'll prolly help if we know the versions of Winderz and IE.

-Craig
 
richk said:
How can I completely get rid of Internet Explorer
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Why would you want to remove part of your brain? Perform a frontal lobotomy
on yourself? Oooh...

Izzen dat scaddy, kids?
 
its not a good idea to remove internet explorer, it is possible using litepc
after an installation
or something like Nlite before the installation, but too many programs need
internet explorer
for them to work. You will be limiting yourself too much after the removal,
and you would always
have to search for alternative programs that do not need IE to work.

In otherwords its possible but it isnt worth the effort since the problems
are more than what you will gain.
 
John said:
its not a good idea to remove internet explorer, it is possible using litepc
after an installation
or something like Nlite before the installation, but too many programs need
internet explorer
for them to work. You will be limiting yourself too much after the removal,
and you would always
have to search for alternative programs that do not need IE to work.
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Have to agree with this. I removed IE from my previous OS, but found I
had to reinstall it to visit some sites and run some programs.
Just have to let it sit there eating up real estate on your HDD I'm
afraid.
 
Am 2 Jun 2006 16:39:05 +0200 schrieb Lee:
You won't be able to update Windows if you get rid of it!
Regards
Lee
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yes you will, you won't be able to auto-update.
 
Eric said:
Am 2 Jun 2006 16:39:05 +0200 schrieb Lee:




yes you will, you won't be able to auto-update.
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Agreed.

That's why I asked the OP out of curiosity. Manual updates are a royal
PITA...of course, there'd be less w/o IE...<g>

-Craig
 
How can I completely get rid of Internet Explorer
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IE is so much a part of Windows that you destroy a varying
amount of Windows functionality (by using IERadictor, for example)
which gets worse with increasing Windows versions. I got away
with using IERadicator on Win 98 original many years ago, and
never noticed serious consequences (though there likely were some
consequences that I wasn't aware of). But Win ME gets really crippled
after using IERadictor. IERadictor isn't even specified for use on
most all of the NT based OS. So just forget it.

Art
http://home.epix.net/~artnpeg
 
Removing IE is not recommended by most and also not necessary.

Since I do not use IE, OE, or Explorer, they just sit there not
bothering anything. Never updated, never allowed through my firewall.

Firefox is my preferred browser. My newsreader/email program is not
freeware nor is my Explorer replacement, but I've noticed many are
content with Thunderbird or Free Agent as an OE replacement and Free
Commander as an Explorer replacement. There are many other options
also available on ACF's Priceless site. http://www.pricelessware.org

BoB
 
Am Fri, 02 Jun 2006 15:23:23 GMT schrieb Craig:
Agreed.

That's why I asked the OP out of curiosity. Manual updates are a royal
PITA...of course, there'd be less w/o IE...<g>

-Craig
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I get my updates here:
http://www.winfuture.de/downloadrubrik,21.html
I'm not sure if this works with english xp-version - maybe somewhere
there's an international version of this.

Note to the OP: I don't use IE but I wouldn't dare to unsinstall it. If you
do, try this:
Open the file /windows/inf/sysoc.inf (might be hidden)
remove all "HIDDEN" entries (not the commata!)
save
Open Control panel/software/windows components
Now you see a lot of new removable entries including IE

Warning: I never tried this with IE!!!
 
Have to agree with this. I removed IE from my previous OS, but found I
had to reinstall it to visit some sites and run some programs.
Just have to let it sit there eating up real estate on your HDD I'm
afraid.
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I saved a webpage from apparently an ``expert'' on IE removal issues.
He claims there is a reliable way to do a minimal IE install after
removing it, that preserves your ability to read chm windows help
files, etc. I plan to try it some day, but have not had the nerve
yet. I do have a nicely zipped complete copy of my bare windows
installation. So nothing too horrible should happen when I try.

However, the problem that some websites require IE to display at all,
display some things, or perform some functions is probably almost
unsolvable.
 
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