Remove IE9?

[Nil]

Thanks, but I still don't understand. How on earth is a web
browser part of the operating system? Surely it's just an
application?

How many times must the answer be repeated for you to stop whining
about it. Are you ignoring responses, or are you dense, or are you
trolling?

Internet Explorer is integral to the OS and cannot be removed. Deal
with it. Ignore it if you don't use it. Capice?

 

[XS11E]

Sorry, but I am still lost. I use Firefox regularly, and just want
to remove Internet Explorer. Why is that difficult?

It's not difficult, it's impossible as others have told you.

Dump Firefox which is a much inferior browser to IE8 or IE9 and learn
to use IE which works better, is substantially safer if properly
configured and won't give you all the problems of Firefox.

 

[XS11E]

Hi, HM.

Leala may be right: You might be a troll, because you have
repeatedly ignored what several have told you in very plain
English. Internet Explorer is an INTEGRAL part of the Windows
operating system. It cannot be removed by us mere mortals.

That's what Microsoft told the United States Department of Justice
- and the court - in the famous anti-trust lawsuit back in 1994
and 1998. Bingle for "DOJ v Microsoft" to find millions of hits.
Here's the first one I saw:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_v._Microsoft

Whether you like the answer or not, you'll get nowhere arguing
with us in this newsgroup. We are just users like you and have no
more power over Microsoft than you do. You'll need to talk
directly with Microsoft. Take your lawyer with you.

Best answer yet!

 

[Tom Lake]

"HoneyMonster" wrote in message
This question has doubtlessly been asked before, but please bear with me.

The time it takes when Windows Update downloads and installs updates to
IE9 is rather annoying, since I do not use it anyway. My web browser is
Firefox.

The answer is probably just to uninstall IE9, but how do I go about that
please? I have Googled quite a lot, but the solutions all seem to involve
installing an earlier version. I don't want any versions of Internet
Explorer.

Surely this is easy, and I am missing something obvious, but what is it?

Thanks.

It is easy to remove IE9 but you will still have IE8 (or whatever the
previous version you had was.) To remove IE9, open Windows Update.
Now, in the lower left-hand corner, see a link to Installed Updates.
Click on that and look for Windows Internet Explorer 9 in the list.
Now click on that and a dialog box will open asking if you're sure.
Click the Yes button and IE9 will be uninstalled. Unless you're using
a European version of Win 7, some version of IE is necessary for Windows
to operate properly. The European Windows 7 was created to resolve
lawsuits by the European Union and unless you're a TechNet or ISDN
member or have a friend in Europe willing to send you a copy, you can't
get the "IE-less" version here.

Tom Lake

 

[HoneyMonster]

Unless you're using a European
version of Win 7, some version of IE is necessary for Windows to operate
properly. The European Windows 7 was created to resolve lawsuits by the
European Union and unless you're a TechNet or ISDN member or have a
friend in Europe willing to send you a copy, you can't get the "IE-less"
version here.

Aha! Now *that* sounds promising. I *am* in Europe. Does that mean I can
remove IE after all?

 

[Sunny Bard]

Aha! Now *that* sounds promising. I *am* in Europe. Does that mean I can
remove IE after all?

Nope. The "Windows 7 E edition" was dropped after all, instead they
gave the ballot screen to allow users to choose their default browser,
leaving IE installed (but not used, if the user selected a different
browser).

<http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/08/03/microsoft_ditches_windows_e_plans>

You'll just have to live with either IE8 or IE9 existing on your PC,
even if you don't use it.

 

[Sir_George]

updates to >> IE9 is rather annoying, since I do not use it anyway.
My web browser is >> Firefox.
seem to >> involve installing an earlier version. I don't want any
versions of >> Internet Explorer.

Thanks for the response, but I don't want to revert to anything IE; I
just want to remove it. Surely that shouldn't be difficult?

What part of Dave "Crash" Dummy's response stating "The IE engine is an
integral part of the operating system" did you fail to understand?
Integral means it is a necessary component of the operating system. If
you don't like IE to the extent that you can't live with it, then
change the operating system.

 

[Dave \Crash\ Dummy]

Nope. The "Windows 7 E edition" was dropped after all, instead they
gave the ballot screen to allow users to choose their default
browser, leaving IE installed (but not used, if the user selected a
different browser).

<http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/08/03/microsoft_ditches_windows_e_plans>

You'll just have to live with either IE8 or IE9 existing on your PC,
even if you don't use it.

I don't know what the big deal is. I have several MS provided utilities
that I never use, like MS Paint and Notepad. I don't feel cheated or
betrayed every time I open PaintShopPro or EditPad. If I didn't want to
see IE, I'd just unpin it from the Taskbar and Start menu.

 

[Gordon]

Thanks for the response, but I don't want to revert to anything IE; I
just want to remove it. Surely that shouldn't be difficult?

Well unfortunately it's impossible. You CANNOT remove IE at all. You can
remove ACCESS to it, but you cannot physically uninstall it.

 

[Gordon]

Sorry, but I am still lost. I use Firefox regularly, and just want to
remove Internet Explorer. Why is that difficult?

Because MS have chosen to integrate IE completely with the OS.

 

[Gordon]

IE can't be removed from any version of Windows, since Windows 95 OSR2

Not true. You could remove IE from XP if you really wanted to.
http://inetexplorer.mvps.org/answers/8.html

 

[Tester]

I don't know what the big deal is. I have several MS provided utilities
that I never use, like MS Paint and Notepad. I don't feel cheated or
betrayed every time I open PaintShopPro or EditPad. If I didn't want to
see IE, I'd just unpin it from the Taskbar and Start menu.

That is why your name is dummy and you also think like a real dummy!

 

[Char Jackson]

I don't know what the big deal is. I have several MS provided utilities
that I never use, like MS Paint and Notepad. I don't feel cheated or
betrayed every time I open PaintShopPro or EditPad. If I didn't want to
see IE, I'd just unpin it from the Taskbar and Start menu.

Well said.

 

[Sir_George]

updates to >> IE9 is rather annoying, since I do not use it anyway.
My web browser is >> Firefox.

Thanks, but I still don't understand. How on earth is a web browser
part of the operating system? Surely it's just an application?

HM

Just because you don't understand it, doesn't make it any less factual.
Your question has been answered, whether or not you like or understand
the answer isn't the issue.

 

[capitan]

Well said.

For me, the big deal is security. Because MS chose to integrate their
browser w/ the kernel and not sandbox (isolate) it instead, they left
huge gaping vulnerabilities through the browser into the OS. I know I
can just choose to use another browser, but if IE stays installed like
it does, so do many insecurities stay with it on my system.

 

[Sunny Bard]

I don't know what the big deal is.

Me neither, but I think HoneyMonster is worried about the amount of time
and bandwidth wasted downloading hotfixes for a program s/he doesn't use ...

 

[Big Steel]

Me neither, but I think HoneyMonster is worried about the amount of time
and bandwidth wasted downloading hotfixes for a program s/he doesn't use ...

One can always set Windows update to manual and pick the updates wanted.

 

[Ken Blake]

Well unfortunately it's impossible. You CANNOT remove IE at all. You can
remove ACCESS to it, but you cannot physically uninstall it.

And let me add that, even if you don't want it, there's really no
advantage to removing it over just removing access to it. The only
difference is that you would save a couple of pennies worth of disk
space.

And even removing access to it is hardly any different from just not
using it. Every version of Windows is filled with lots of built-in
programs/functions that I never have used and probably never will. I
don't feel compelled to remove them, and not even to remove access to
them.

And while I think of it--one more point: even if it's never happened
yet, one day HoneyMonster may have trouble getting to or using a
particular web site with whatever the browser is he prefers. It could
be very beneficial to have IE available for use in that contingency.

 

[Ken Blake]

Thanks, but I still don't understand. How on earth is a web browser part
of the operating system? Surely it's just an application?

As you've been told numbers of times, it's *not* just an application;
it's part of the operating system. Whether you understand it or not
doesn't matter. Why Microsoft did it that way doesn't matter. Like it
or not, understand it or not--that's the way it is.

 

[HoneyMonster]

Me neither, but I think HoneyMonster is worried about the amount of time
and bandwidth wasted downloading hotfixes for a program s/he doesn't use

Indeed, that's what I said. Actually I'm concerned about the security
vulnerabilities too, but I didn't like to mention that in my original
post for fear of causing arguments.

And simply 'hiding' it by removing regular access to it does not prevent
third party applications from using it. That's another reason why I want
simply to remove it.

I have read carefully all the responses, and am grateful to all those who
have offered advice.

But I still cannot understand why Microsoft should have chosen to entwine
a web browser so deeply into the OS. Surely a web browser is just an
application, like a word processor or a spreadsheet or a newsreader? The
OS is there to provide a service to the applications.

It isn't difficult to uninstall Word, Excel or Agent. Why should it be
difficult (or *impossible* as some have said) to uninstall IE?