Posted: 2/25/2008 8:27:31 AM EDT
| How do I do this? I deleted all the files as I used the remove programs function on windows XP, but when I reinstalled IE 7.x it seems like some files are still somewhere. |
| IE 7 is an upgrade and I think it saves the old 6 version files in case you want to go back,I personally think it sucks on Xp and works only good on my laptop with Vista and the install files are deep in the hidden and backupfiles in XP and think if you ever went after them you may just be reinstalling the whole system,some things are better left alone |
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You can't completely remove Internet Explorer. It's integrated tightly with Windows, which is actually called 'Explorer' behind the scenes. You may remember a bunch of legal stuff a few years back, where Sun and Netscape accused MS of being a monopoly, especially in the internet browser market, because IE was so hard to get rid of. As we can see....MS won that little court case. I recommend using Firefox, and just don't use or update IE. If you want to get rid of IE on your system entirely, you'll have to switch operating systems to something else. MacOS X or Linux are IE free, although you can put IE on the Mac, and I suppose you could get it running on Linux as well. |
Linux geek reporting in. You can run ie4linux which will give you several version of IE to play with. NO IE7 (outside of Beta) at the moment though. |
| You can remove all visible traces of IE, but if you manage to remove IE's core operating files you will be reinstalling the OS. Take the advice above, if it annoys you that much remove it's icons, install Firefox, make it the default browser and run with that. If you really MUST have an OS with no IE presence at all you'll have to go back to Win95 or a non MS OS. |