Can You Remove Internet Explorer From Windows 11
Leana Eckes
You can remove it through a lot of registry modification, but you shouldn't. It is used to render HTML for almost all apps - Outlook, Word, etc. Uninstalling it from Add/Remove just removes the icons.
The safest way to remove internet explorer completely from XP is doing it prior to the installation. you can manually edit the setup script or use nLite to prevent IE6 from being installed.
Removing internet explorer server 2008 STANDARD since IE is no longer supported in the version I need to remove it. I have already went to programs/features and uninstalled updates but there is still an IE version installed. It is currently IE 7. I went to features but there is not a spot to disable IE
On the advice of Microsoft, the manufacturer of the OS concerned, Internet Explorer is an integral part of the Windows Operating System and whist it can be hidden and taken out of use, it is not possible to completely remove it, nor should this be attempted on this particular revision of Windows. Doing so would cause the installation to be unsupported by Microsoft.
We have taken other steps to mitigate any potential risk, including ensuring that Windows is updated with all applicable security patches, hiding the Internet Explorer browser from view, and installing another browser , which is patched to the latest available version.
My goal here is to install Outlook Express on this installation of WinXP sp3. But unfortunately, this XP version came with IE and OE removed. And I tried to install IE 8, thinking it came with Outlook Express. That was wrong and then it looks like I tried to remove IE 8 by deleting it from C:\Program Files\Internet Explorer. A dumb move because that left the many registry entries for Internet Explorer. And now when I try to install IE 6, it fails with an error message telling me that there is a later version of IE installed.
I'm guessing that I need to remove all the registry entries for Internet Explorer, but there are many. Does this sound like the correct move, and does anyone know how I can clean Internet Explorer from the registry in a quick and easy way?
Thanks for the suggestion. I had searched for "uninst" but not "spuninst". At any rate, there was no Windows/IE8 or Windows/IE? folder. I did find an IE8 uninstall log which showed the Windows/IE8/spuninst file was in place at one time.
The problem remains, many internet explorer references in the registry. Do you know of a way to search for and remove selective registry entries at one time? Or better, what kind of registry entry would trigger the error message:
Follow the instructions of @Bersaglio , go to the Windows folder and search for the folder IE8, where the folder spuninst is located and in this spuninst.exe. If this folder is not available, the IE8 can not be uninstalled. During IE8 regular installation, the files and settings are copied from the existing IE in the %windir%\IE8 folder. If present, SP3 may have been subsequently installed, in which case uninstalling is also not possible.
> Where does the data come from the initial Internet Explorer 6?
There was no previous version installed: "this XP version came with IE and OE removed"
Checking my XP/IE8 (upgraded from IE7) system, I see that the files in Windows\IE8 are IE7 files to be restored if IE8 is uninstalled. It also contains the folder Spuninst containing the IE8 version of Spuninst.exe as previously noted. If this folder is missing, extracting Spuninst.exe and Updspapi.dll to any temp folder might allow for the removal of registry entries (and possibly the removal of more files if their location is stored in the registry).
That said, I recommend the reinstallation of IE8 followed by its normal uninstallation.
Or restore a system backup point from before the initial IE8 install.
Then IE6 and/or Outlook Express should install.
I reinstalled IE8. It didn't show up in Add/Remove Programs, so I went to the Windows/IE8 folder and ran spuninst.exe. The uninstall program ran, I restarted the computer and tried to install IE6 again. The problem is still there, so I can't install IE6.
As for IE8 registry entries, try running regedit and looking under HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer. (Naturally, this time it's "Microsoft" Internet Explorer, not "Windows" Internet Explorer. M$ is nothing if not inconsistent.) There's a Version value under that registry key (as well as a W2KVersion and Build value). Not sure what you need to set them to in order to install IE6, but I think some folks here (might try a PM to apreese16) may still have IE6 installed.
Back up all the registry settings first: right-click the "Internet Explorer" key, click "Export," and give it a file name. That way you can just double-click the .reg file you create to put everything back as it was.
I created a "medicine" for you, where the uninstall folder is created (%windir%\ie8) and an uninstall of IE8 is possible, just like the original IE6 restores files and settings. If interested, send me a PM.
The two main CAB files are MAILNEWS.CAB and WAB.CAB. I installed Outlook Express on POSReady 2009 a few years back until the POSReady 2009 registry hack for XP made customizing POSReady 2009 unnecessary. There is a third CAB file OEEXCEP.CAB which I did not use and I am not sure what it does. If you know, please enlighten me.
I extracted the contents of MAILNEWS.CAB and WAB.CAB into separate folders. Quite a number of the files had been updated since IE6 SP1 was released so I copied and extracted the updated files from an XP Pro SP3 installation CD and replaced the outdated files.
The MAILNEWS and WAB folders each contain a file named setup50.exe. I think I ran setup50.exe in each of the folders in an attempt to install Outlook Express and Windows Address Book. If running setup50.exe doesn't work then I right-clicked on msoe50.inf and clicked "Install" (and wab50.inf for Windows Address Book). It was either running setup50.exe or right-clicking the inf files.
Here's what's happened...I downloaded heinoganda's fix packages, but during the installation it turned out that I had to have a WinXP installation disk. Which I didn't have...so with every request for a missing file I searched through my computer and found most (but not all) of the requested files, but with no idea which versions these files were from. The end result was that IE6 was installed (but only works on a few websites), and when I tried to run OE6 I'd get an error message that msoe.dll was missing. The missing file is in the C:\Program Files/Outlook Express folder. Is there another place it should be?
Today I went back to the suggestion from antiproton and pulled out the MAILNEWS.CAB folder, extracted all the files and ran setup50.exe . Nothing visible happened. Then, just for the heck of it, I ran msimn.exe and the Outlook Express 6 configuration window opened up. I proceeded through the configuration and then downloaded some email.
Next I closed Outlook Express and tried to start it via Internet Explorer 6. That failed with the error message that OE couldn't be started because msoe.dll couldn't be loaded. So I went back to the extracted msimn.exe (still in it's extraction folder) and OE6 started up.
But now I notice that the emails I downloaded are only showing the From, Subject headlines, and nothing in the message area. Perhaps there's a setting that I need to correct for the message content to show.
So that's the current state of affairs...OE6 is starting up but not working properly. I'd like to be able to uninstall heinoganda's IE6 and see if I can get the extracted Outlook Express setup50.exe file to work to try to make a proper installation from the extracted Outlook Express cab files.
Which package was required for the installation media of Windows XP sp3? 1,2 or 3? If it was the second, the files can be found in the folder "%TEMP%\XPSETUP.TMP\I386". You may need to install the second package twice, reboot after the first time, and then again.
Regularly IE6 is part of Windows XP sp3, it was restored with the first package of the folder "%windir%\ie8", of which in the folder "spuninst" spuninst.exe is executed. Meaning that the IE8 is uninstalled and the IE6 files and settings are restored (For me, the question is whether it has been tried to delete various files? Can the first package nor to possibly missing files to expand, you would have to tell me which you are missing. ).
I tested the packages myself in a regular Windows XP sp3 and POSReady 2009 and was able to install it back on IE6 and Outlook Express 6.
Regularly POSReady 2009 is delivered with IE7 and without Outlook Express 6.
by Brian Livingston, InfoWorld columnist From...
INTERACTIVE:
Do you plan on removing Internet Explorer from Windows 98?
YesNoView Results (IDG) -- In recent months, I haven't written exposes of Microsoft's preposterous legal arguments in the U.S. Department of Justice's antitrust case because Microsoft has been doing such a good job by itself. Everyone is now familiar with the doctored video demonstrations, the "performance comparisons" using dissimilar modems, and so on. You can almost hear Bill Gates saying, "Gee, they ate it up at Comdex."Much of the trial has revolved around the following Microsoft claims.
- Computer users benefit when Microsoft's contracts require PC makers to ship Internet Explorer (IE) instead of other browsers;
- IE can't physically be removed from Windows 98 anyway;
- If it can be removed, Windows 98 won't run at all; and
- If Windows 98 does run, it will be unacceptably slow.
News Radio Fusion audio primers Computerworld Minute Australian who is currently studying at the University of Maryland, has developed a Web site that shows you how to remove IE in the comfort of your own office. Brooks cites the following benefits:
- You get back about 35MB of hard disk space;
- Windows 98 runs much faster; and
- Netscape Navigator doesn't crash under Windows 98 anymore. (What a coincidence.)
- Step 1. Use a test system. Do this on a PC that you can easily reformat and reconfigure if need be after your test.Step 2. Replace shell. On a PC with Windows 98 installed, boot to DOS (hold down Ctrl and select Command Prompt Only). Move explorer.exe from the C:\Windows directory to a floppy. Move shell32.dll and comdlg32.dll from C:\Windows\System to floppies. Copy the Windows 95 versions of these three files into the correct locations and reboot. At this point, Brooks says you have a smaller, faster Windows shell. You can run IE at any time by switching these three files back. But let's continue to remove IE itself.Step 3. Delete folders. In Windows 98, delete the following folders (including all files they contain) from the C:\Windows folder:
- Catroot
- Cookies
- Downloaded Program Files
- History
- Java
- Temporary Internet Files
- Web