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uninstall Internet Explorer 8
I have Windows XP and wish to uninstall Internet Explorer 8, replacing
it with Google Chrome. Is it as simple as uninstalling "Windows Internet Explorer 8" in Control Panel, add or remove programs? Will uninstalling IE break any part of the operating system? How do I tell Windows that Chrome is to be the default web browser? Thank you. |
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lid wrote:
I have Windows XP and wish to uninstall Internet Explorer 8, replacing it with Google Chrome. Is it as simple as uninstalling "Windows Internet Explorer 8" in Control Panel, add or remove programs? Will uninstalling IE break any part of the operating system? How do I tell Windows that Chrome is to be the default web browser? Thank you. Unless there is something defective about IE8 for you, and you really want to use an older version of Internet Explorer, there is really no reason to remove it. In Control Panels : Add/Remove Programs, you will find Add/Remove Windows Components. Internet Explorer is an item in there. If you "untick" the box, the OS will "hide" the iexplore.exe executable, so it cannot be run. If instead, you use Add/Remove Programs to remove IE8, all it does is revert to the previous version of IE, complete with armed and running iexplore.exe. Note that certain sites *require* IE. For example, at the current time, the catalog server at Microsoft, the one that provides various updates, it uses ActiveX, and Chrome won't work for that. (Example of searching for KB3146449 as a download...) http://catalog.update.microsoft.com/...aspx?q=3146449 ******* Now we come to the second bit of "bad news". Chrome is no longer supported for WinXP. Yes, you can probably dig up a crusty version from somewhere and install it, but it won't be getting any security updates. And Chrome needs all the help it can get (such as the PPAPI version of Adobe Flash, otherwise known as PepperFlash). If there is an exploit in Adobe Flash, then the user is well advised to receive the corresponding PepperFlash update. Since Google no longer supports Chrome, they won't be shipping that to a WinXP user. They will be shipping it to a Win7 user of Chrome. So what's a person to do ? Rethink your browser strategy ? Look for (yet another) browser ? We live in a great new world, where sticking a fork in stuff is all-in-fashion. Hello to No-Chrome-For-You, etc. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google...s_XP_and_Vista "Windows XP and Vista Support for Google Chrome on Windows XP and Windows Vista has ended as of April 2016." The open-source version is Chromium, but I don't know how updates work on it. Whether the updater is disabled, and the user is expected to be a rocket-scientist. No idea. I had it installed here once, and the hardest part was even finding the damn download. The reason for installing it, was to learn how to uninstall it for someone :-) ******* Whether you have Chrome or Chromium, first look for these files sitting in a folder. chrome.7z ~150MB setup.exe ~ 1MB Now, in a command prompt window, cd to the path where those files are located. Say for example, you have C:\path\to\these\files\chrome.7z Then, in Command Prompt, you would... cd /d C:\path\to\these\files If you now do the "dir" command, the two files should be listed. chrome.7z setup.exe Then, if you want to uninstall the Chrome/Chromium package... if a chromium installation: setup.exe --uninstall if a chrome installation: setup.exe --uninstall --multi-install --chrome --system-level Anyway, that's why I installed Chromium, so I could verify the setup was the same (same two files). Someone managed to get Chromium on their machine, and I haven't a clue how they did it, because if Google slips in an installer on you, it installs Chrome, not Chromium. To install Chromium, is "hard" in terms of availability and figuring out the URL of the download page. You can start "burrowing" for Chromium, here. The Win page has *thousands* of versions, so don't "burrow" for the download over dialup. It'll take all night to get the Win page to fully render. https://commondatastorage.googleapis...ots/index.html And this would be today's version. This'll save you a few seconds. https://commondatastorage.googleapis...ix=Win/390528/ And no, I don't know what you do next. I don't know whether that's an actual 32 bit version for WinXP or not. And you don't need to remove IE8 to test it. I keep IE on this machine, and just... never use it. No problemo. Good luck :-) Paul |
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On 04/28/2016 07:22 PM, Paul wrote:
lid wrote: I have Windows XP and wish to uninstall Internet Explorer 8, replacing it with Google Chrome. Is it as simple as uninstalling "Windows Internet Explorer 8" in Control Panel, add or remove programs? Will uninstalling IE break any part of the operating system? How do I tell Windows that Chrome is to be the default web browser? Thank you. Unless there is something defective about IE8 for you, and you really want to use an older version of Internet Explorer, there is really no reason to remove it. In Control Panels : Add/Remove Programs, you will find Add/Remove Windows Components. Internet Explorer is an item in there. If you "untick" the box, the OS will "hide" the iexplore.exe executable, so it cannot be run. If instead, you use Add/Remove Programs to remove IE8, all it does is revert to the previous version of IE, complete with armed and running iexplore.exe. Note that certain sites *require* IE. For example, at the current time, the catalog server at Microsoft, the one that provides various updates, it uses ActiveX, and Chrome won't work for that. (Example of searching for KB3146449 as a download...) http://catalog.update.microsoft.com/...aspx?q=3146449 ******* Now we come to the second bit of "bad news". Chrome is no longer supported for WinXP. Yes, you can probably dig up a crusty version from somewhere and install it, but it won't be getting any security updates. And Chrome needs all the help it can get (such as the PPAPI version of Adobe Flash, otherwise known as PepperFlash). If there is an exploit in Adobe Flash, then the user is well advised to receive the corresponding PepperFlash update. Since Google no longer supports Chrome, they won't be shipping that to a WinXP user. They will be shipping it to a Win7 user of Chrome. So what's a person to do ? Rethink your browser strategy ? Look for (yet another) browser ? We live in a great new world, where sticking a fork in stuff is all-in-fashion. Hello to No-Chrome-For-You, etc. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google...s_XP_and_Vista "Windows XP and Vista Support for Google Chrome on Windows XP and Windows Vista has ended as of April 2016." The open-source version is Chromium, but I don't know how updates work on it. Whether the updater is disabled, and the user is expected to be a rocket-scientist. No idea. I had it installed here once, and the hardest part was even finding the damn download. The reason for installing it, was to learn how to uninstall it for someone :-) ******* Whether you have Chrome or Chromium, first look for these files sitting in a folder. chrome.7z ~150MB setup.exe ~ 1MB Now, in a command prompt window, cd to the path where those files are located. Say for example, you have C:\path\to\these\files\chrome.7z Then, in Command Prompt, you would... cd /d C:\path\to\these\files If you now do the "dir" command, the two files should be listed. chrome.7z setup.exe Then, if you want to uninstall the Chrome/Chromium package... if a chromium installation: setup.exe --uninstall if a chrome installation: setup.exe --uninstall --multi-install --chrome --system-level Anyway, that's why I installed Chromium, so I could verify the setup was the same (same two files). Someone managed to get Chromium on their machine, and I haven't a clue how they did it, because if Google slips in an installer on you, it installs Chrome, not Chromium. To install Chromium, is "hard" in terms of availability and figuring out the URL of the download page. You can start "burrowing" for Chromium, here. The Win page has *thousands* of versions, so don't "burrow" for the download over dialup. It'll take all night to get the Win page to fully render. https://commondatastorage.googleapis...ots/index.html And this would be today's version. This'll save you a few seconds. https://commondatastorage.googleapis...ix=Win/390528/ And no, I don't know what you do next. I don't know whether that's an actual 32 bit version for WinXP or not. And you don't need to remove IE8 to test it. I keep IE on this machine, and just... never use it. No problemo. Good luck :-) Paul I agree. No need to uninstall IE8 which will just put the machine back to an older version...simply don't use it. BTW: I've found out that for the few remaining IE-only websites, the Maxthon browser is the way to go. I can get to such sites even from my Linux machine |
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On Thu, 28 Apr 2016 21:24:33 -0500, philo wrote:
I agree. No need to uninstall IE8 which will just put the machine back to an older version...simply don't use it. I browse http://www.cnn.com/ in MSIE 8 under XP. It shows a corrupted web page. I browse the same webpage in Google Chrome. It displays correctly. Is there some way of fixing, or restoring, MSIE 8 so it displays pages correctly? |
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uninstall Internet Explorer 8
On 04/29/2016 07:20 AM, lid wrote:
On Thu, 28 Apr 2016 21:24:33 -0500, philo wrote: I agree. No need to uninstall IE8 which will just put the machine back to an older version...simply don't use it. I browse http://www.cnn.com/ in MSIE 8 under XP. It shows a corrupted web page. I browse the same webpage in Google Chrome. It displays correctly. Is there some way of fixing, or restoring, MSIE 8 so it displays pages correctly? It's not that IE-8 is broken per-se simply that it's obsolete. Due to the fact that it's not secure and due to the fact that it does not render web pages correctly simply do not use it. There are still browsers that will get continued XP support (already mentioned) |
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On Thu, 28 Apr 2016 21:24:33 -0500, philo wrote: I agree. No need to uninstall IE8 which will just put the machine back to an older version...simply don't use it. I browse http://www.cnn.com/ in MSIE 8 under XP. It shows a corrupted web page. I browse the same webpage in Google Chrome. It displays correctly. Is there some way of fixing, or restoring, MSIE 8 so it displays pages correctly? Part of the page content, will be rendered by Adobe Flash. Go to Control Panels and look for the Flash control panel. Use the Advanced tab. Select "Delete All" to lose all the recorded context in Flash. ******* Clearing browser cache. https://kb.wisc.edu/helpdesk/page.php?id=12314 ******* Reset browser wizard. http://download.microsoft.com/downlo...Fixit50195.msi Microsoft Fix it 50195 v2.1.1.8 Reset Internet Explorer settings ( from https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/kb/923737 ) That procedure can probably be managed from the menus, but first you'd have to right-click the title bar and tick the Menu item so you get a menu bar. Paul |
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[Default] On Fri, 29 Apr 2016 16:39:11 +1200, in
microsoft.public.windowsxp.general Dave Doe wrote: In article , , lid says... I have Windows XP and wish to uninstall Internet Explorer 8, replacing it with Google Chrome. Is it as simple as uninstalling "Windows Internet Explorer 8" in Control Panel, add or remove programs? Will uninstalling IE break any part of the operating system? How do I tell Windows that Chrome is to be the default web browser? Thank you. I'd leave the latest version of IE installed if you can. You can't completely remove IE anyway - is it version 6 that XP ships with? That can't be uninstalled, it's integrated into the OS. Yes, wasn't it around 1997 or so that MS was sued for having a monopoly on web browsers, and the plaintiff wanted MS to ship windows without a (default?) webbrowser and allow the user to install his own? A major part of MS's defense was t hat IE was integrated with the OS and couldn't be uninstalled, but I suspect that they wrote it that way on purpose, maybe even starting when the complaints were starting or even the lawsuit was in the works. Nonetheless, iirc the government was about to win (maybe had won in a lower court) when the election put GWBush in office and his new, pro-business Attorney General 'compromised', giving MS most of what they wanted. However part of the charge against MS was that they gave incomplete or even incorrect specs to those trying to write browsers for Windows, which caused those browsers to crash more often than they would have otherwise. And I think the settlement made MS start giving accurate specs. Which is probably what led to the much smaller user base for IE. But the suit is over, none of us is in a position to sue again, and we might as well do what you, Dave, and others here suggest. Use the browser we want but leave ie where it is. One more factoid. As HTML tags/commands? became more numerous and some were not understood by Eudora as written, and as html email became more common, Eudora gave as an option to use the "Microsoft viewer", which is not IE but is, iiuc, the same viewer that IE uses. If IE could be completely uninstalled, I suspect it would take the "Microsoft viewer" along with it, which would impede Eudora and maybe other software. ?? So I'd get IE as up- to-date as possilble and leave it like that. You can install any browser in addition, and make it the default. If you install Google Chrome, it should prompt you when first run to make it the default. You can also set IE not to prompt to set as the default browser. Problem solved in that regard. The other problem though, is that Google Chrome have stopped updating for XP. Perhaps you should consider an XP supported browser; I think Opera and Firefox both support XP still. |
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On Fri, 29 Apr 2016 01:22:27 +0100, Paul wrote:
lid wrote: I have Windows XP and wish to uninstall Internet Explorer 8, replacing it with Google Chrome. [] Now we come to the second bit of "bad news". Chrome is no longer supported for WinXP. Yes, you can probably dig up a crusty version from somewhere and install it, but it won't be getting any security updates. And Chrome needs all the help it can get (such as the PPAPI version of Adobe Flash, otherwise known as PepperFlash). If there is an exploit in Adobe Flash, then the user is well advised to receive the corresponding PepperFlash update. Since Google no longer supports Chrome, they won't be shipping that to a WinXP user. They will be shipping it to a Win7 user of Chrome. [] Iron is still available (Chrome/Chromium with the google bits taken out) https://www.srware.net/en/software_s...n_download.php (well, they say the installer works for XP; I don't know about updates) -- Bah, and indeed, Humbug |
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Hi to all.
I have a VirtualBox virtual machine with the Turkish version of Windows XP Pro SP3 installed. In this virtual machine I've manually uninstalled the European Union Font Update pre-installed in it by going to Safe Mode and need to uninstall IE8. |
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... Hi to all. I have a VirtualBox virtual machine with the Turkish version of Windows XP Pro SP3 installed. In this virtual machine I've manually uninstalled the European Union Font Update pre-installed in it by going to Safe Mode and need to uninstall IE8. Do Not Uninstall Windows Internet Explorer 8 It Come With SP3 Only Need Internet Explorer To Have A Working Network Sp2 Update to Sp3 = IE 6 to 7 to 8 Uninstall ie8 'Rollback' to ie7 Uninstall ie7 'Rollback' to ie6 Sp2 = Internet Explorer 6 to 7 Uninstall ie7 'Rollback' to ie6 Sp1 = Internet Explorer 6 Update To 7 Only Uninstall ie7 'Rollback' to ie6 You Have To Have Internet Explorer So That Firefox Can Have A Network |
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