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bandi

Flightless Bird
I have both Internet Explorer 7 and Mozilla Firefox installed on this PC
w/XP running on it. I'd like to uninstall IE 7 and it's listed in
add/remove in control panel but at only 2.46 MBs. I assume that's an
upgrade so haven't tried to uninstall it. Any suggestions anyone? Anyone?
Thanks.
 
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philo

Flightless Bird
bandi wrote:
> I have both Internet Explorer 7 and Mozilla Firefox installed on this PC
> w/XP running on it. I'd like to uninstall IE 7 and it's listed in
> add/remove in control panel but at only 2.46 MBs. I assume that's an
> upgrade so haven't tried to uninstall it. Any suggestions anyone? Anyone?
> Thanks.
>
>



though you can uninstall it...
I'd keep it

not sure why you'd want to go back to IE6?
 
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Bruce Hagen

Flightless Bird
"bandi" <mnkwms@charter.net> wrote in message
news:%23%23vJEbdrKHA.1352@TK2MSFTNGP06.phx.gbl...
>I have both Internet Explorer 7 and Mozilla Firefox installed on this PC
>w/XP running on it. I'd like to uninstall IE 7 and it's listed in
>add/remove in control panel but at only 2.46 MBs. I assume that's an
>upgrade so haven't tried to uninstall it. Any suggestions anyone?
>Anyone? Thanks.



XP came with IE6, so if IE7 is listed in Add/remove, it is removable. That
will revert you back to IE6 which is not removable.

If you go into the Control Panel | Add Remove Programs | Add/Remove
Windows Components. you can uncheck Internet Explorer and that will stop
it from running regardless of the version.
--
Bruce Hagen
MS-MVP [Mail]
Imperial Beach, CA
 
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Daave

Flightless Bird
bandi wrote:
> I have both Internet Explorer 7 and Mozilla Firefox installed on this
> PC w/XP running on it. I'd like to uninstall IE 7 and it's listed in
> add/remove in control panel but at only 2.46 MBs. I assume that's an
> upgrade so haven't tried to uninstall it. Any suggestions anyone?
> Anyone? Thanks.


When you upgraded to IE7, were you at SP2 or SP3? The bottom line is if
you upgraded to IE7 before upgrading to SP3, you need to uninstall SP3
before you uninstall IE7.

That being said, *why* do you want to roll back to IE6? This is very
likely a very bad idea!
 
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Bill in Co.

Flightless Bird
Daave wrote:
> bandi wrote:
>> I have both Internet Explorer 7 and Mozilla Firefox installed on this
>> PC w/XP running on it. I'd like to uninstall IE 7 and it's listed in
>> add/remove in control panel but at only 2.46 MBs. I assume that's an
>> upgrade so haven't tried to uninstall it. Any suggestions anyone?
>> Anyone? Thanks.

>
> When you upgraded to IE7, were you at SP2 or SP3? The bottom line is if
> you upgraded to IE7 before upgrading to SP3, you need to uninstall SP3
> before you uninstall IE7.
>
> That being said, *why* do you want to roll back to IE6? This is very
> likely a very bad idea!


Some of us can't stand IE7, and actually *prefer* IE6, if, for nothing else,
it's customability. Actually, in my case, it's even more than that; I
can't use CacheSentryPro reliably with IE7 or IE8, and I rely on that TIF
cache manager (since I'm on dial-up, it really comes in handy with its
options for the caching).
 
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Jose

Flightless Bird
On Feb 14, 7:36 pm, "bandi" <mnk...@charter.net> wrote:
> I have both Internet Explorer 7 and Mozilla Firefox installed on this PC
> w/XP running on it.  I'd like to uninstall IE 7 and it's listed in
> add/remove in control panel but at only 2.46 MBs.  I assume that's an
> upgrade so haven't tried to uninstall it.  Any suggestions anyone?   Anyone?
> Thanks.


Since you are looking at MBs, are you trying to free up room on your
hard disk? There are probably many better alternatives.

Sometimes when folks compose WWW pages, their attitude is if it works
with IE, development is done and they will not be keen to fix problems
concerning other popular browsers - like Firefox.

Also, at some point you may need to use the Microsoft WWW site (a
Windows update for example) and they are going to insist you use some
version of their browser (IE something). Sooner or later, you may
need a reliable IE when you find something that is peculiar in some
non IE browser. If you say you have a problem with Firefox, the next
question is likely going to be "Does it work in IE?". You need to
have a good answer or avoid the question by testing it yourself before
the question gets asked.

I have IE7 and Firefox also, and still have a reason to use IE once in
a great while. Now I use Chrome mostly - I don't even like Firefox
much anymore and used to think it was great! If I have a Chrome
oddity, I will try it in Firefox, then try it in IE.

Unless you have a compelling reason to uninstall IE7 and go back to
IE6, I would leave it.

That is my suggestion.
 
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bandi

Flightless Bird
Guess I failed to say that I don't want either IE6 or IE7 but will continue
with what I have, both 7 and Firefox. No, I'm not trying to save space.


"Jose" <jose_ease@yahoo.com> wrote in message
news:c8d32e50-2c69-4a4e-9e79-322a41fbccfe@z26g2000yqm.googlegroups.com...
On Feb 14, 7:36 pm, "bandi" <mnk...@charter.net> wrote:
> I have both Internet Explorer 7 and Mozilla Firefox installed on this PC
> w/XP running on it. I'd like to uninstall IE 7 and it's listed in
> add/remove in control panel but at only 2.46 MBs. I assume that's an
> upgrade so haven't tried to uninstall it. Any suggestions anyone? Anyone?
> Thanks.


Since you are looking at MBs, are you trying to free up room on your
hard disk? There are probably many better alternatives.

Sometimes when folks compose WWW pages, their attitude is if it works
with IE, development is done and they will not be keen to fix problems
concerning other popular browsers - like Firefox.

Also, at some point you may need to use the Microsoft WWW site (a
Windows update for example) and they are going to insist you use some
version of their browser (IE something). Sooner or later, you may
need a reliable IE when you find something that is peculiar in some
non IE browser. If you say you have a problem with Firefox, the next
question is likely going to be "Does it work in IE?". You need to
have a good answer or avoid the question by testing it yourself before
the question gets asked.

I have IE7 and Firefox also, and still have a reason to use IE once in
a great while. Now I use Chrome mostly - I don't even like Firefox
much anymore and used to think it was great! If I have a Chrome
oddity, I will try it in Firefox, then try it in IE.

Unless you have a compelling reason to uninstall IE7 and go back to
IE6, I would leave it.

That is my suggestion.
 
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PA Bear [MS MVP]

Flightless Bird
You can uninstall IE7 via Add/Remove Programs but all that will do is
restore IE6. You can deny access to IE but you cannot remove it from any
version of Windows.
--
~Robear Dyer (PA Bear)
MS MVP-IE, Mail, Security, Windows Client - since 2002


bandi wrote:
> I have both Internet Explorer 7 and Mozilla Firefox installed on this PC
> w/XP running on it. I'd like to uninstall IE 7 and it's listed in
> add/remove in control panel but at only 2.46 MBs. I assume that's an
> upgrade so haven't tried to uninstall it. Any suggestions anyone?
> Anyone?
> Thanks.
 
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Daave

Flightless Bird
Since IE is integrated into Windows XP, you don't have a choice in the
matter (unless you do some serious hacking, I suppose).

My recommendation is to simply use Firefox whenever you surf the Web.
Trash the shortcuts for IE if you wish.

Question: How do you plan on getting critical Windows updates?


bandi wrote:
> Guess I failed to say that I don't want either IE6 or IE7 but will
> continue with what I have, both 7 and Firefox. No, I'm not trying to
> save space.
 
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20100215

Flightless Bird
"Daave" <daave@example.com> wrote in message
news:ug%23iEvjrKHA.4236@TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl...
> Since IE is integrated into Windows XP, you don't have a choice in the
> matter (unless you do some serious hacking, I suppose).
>
> My recommendation is to simply use Firefox whenever you surf the Web.
> Trash the shortcuts for IE if you wish.
>
> Question: How do you plan on getting critical Windows updates?


In Europe, the domination of IE is likely to end from end of this month when
we will get a patch/pop up to ditch IE. The pop up will not be from any
spyware writer but MICROSOFT. Read the entire article here:

http://crave.cnet.co.uk/software/0,39029471,49303146,00.htm

I am sure BBC website also has a news story about this. The effective date
is 1st March 2010 but I understand M$ wants some time to sort out how to
push critical updates for Windows and other applications.

I will search for the article on BBC website and post it here if I can find
it.
 
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