internet exporer pullled by Microsoft?

My WIN 10 Pro has had iexpore.exe removed from both internet explorer
program folders. Cannot get them back via Settings or Control Panel.

My WIN 10 Home still have functional Internet Explorer.

So,, it appearse that M$ is starting to kill IE.

I don't use IE, but a unhappy friend does. She is computer
cballenged, so I will set her up with a differnt browser.

On 2020-07-30 8:59 p.m., Bentot wrote:
My WIN 10 Pro has had iexpore.exe removed from both internet explorer
program folders. Cannot get them back via Settings or Control Panel.

My WIN 10 Home still have functional Internet Explorer.

So,, it appearse that M$ is starting to kill IE.

I don't use IE, but a unhappy friend does. She is computer
cballenged, so I will set her up with a differnt browser.


What version of windowV 10 Pro do you have?
I have Windows 10 Pro version 2004 19041.388 and internet explorer is
still functional.

Rene

Rene Lamontagne wrote:
On 2020-07-30 8:59 p.m., Bentot wrote:
My WIN 10 Pro has had iexpore.exe removed from both internet explorer
program folders. Cannot get them back via Settings or Control Panel.

My WIN 10 Home still have functional Internet Explorer.

So,, it appearse that M$ is starting to kill IE.

I don't use IE, but a unhappy friend does. She is computer
cballenged, so I will set her up with a differnt browser.


What version of windowV 10 Pro do you have?
I have Windows 10 Pro version 2004 19041.388 and internet explorer is
still functional.

Rene


I'd be checking the quarantine folder :-)

Maybe iexplore.exe was naughty and needed to be spanked.

*******

Or maybe...

Start : Run : control
Programs and Features (control panel)
Windows Features
Check that Internet Explorer 11 tick box is still ticked

Paul


Paul

On 2020-07-30 18:59, Bentot wrote:
My WIN 10 Pro has had iexpore.exe removed from both internet explorer
program folders. Cannot get them back via Settings or Control Panel.

My WIN 10 Home still have functional Internet Explorer.

So,, it appearse that M$ is starting to kill IE.

I don't use IE, but a unhappy friend does. She is computer
cballenged, so I will set her up with a differnt browser.


Hi Bentot,

Brave Browser would be a good choice. It is considered
Grandparent safe:

http://brave.com

Brave uses the same "Blink" engineer as does Chrome, but
does not spy on you and has built in ad blocking.

I am running Windows 10 build 2004 pro 64 bit.
This is where my Internet explorer is located;

https://ibb.co/GHXgbJq

Note that it is called iexplore.exe. If running
64 bit, make sure you are not looking in the x86
directory.

On all new builds, I remove Edge and replace it
with a shortcut to IE and rename the shortcut
"Internet Explorer".

Believe it or not, in this day and age, there are
still some web sites out there that only work with
Internet Explorer.

Edge is a mess.

HTH,
-T

On 31-Jul-2020 4:01 pm, T wrote:
On 2020-07-30 18:59, Bentot wrote:
My WIN 10 Pro has had iexpore.exe removed from both internet explorer
program folders.Â* Cannot get them back via Settings or Control Panel.

My WIN 10 Home still have functional Internet Explorer.

So,, it appearse that M$ is starting to kill IE.

I don't use IE, but a unhappy friend does.Â* She is computer
cballenged, so I will set her up with a differnt browser.


Hi Bentot,

Brave Browser would be a good choice.Â* It is considered
Grandparent safe:

http://brave.com

Brave uses the same "Blink" engineer as does Chrome, but
does not spy on you and has built in ad blocking.

I am running Windows 10 build 2004 pro 64 bit.
This is where my Internet explorer is located;

https://ibb.co/GHXgbJq

Note that it is called iexplore.exe.Â* If running
64 bit, make sure you are not looking in the x86
directory.

On all new builds, I remove Edge and replace it
with a shortcut to IE and rename the shortcut
"Internet Explorer".

Believe it or not, in this day and age, there are
still some web sites out there that only work with
Internet Explorer.

Edge is a mess.

HTH,
-T

The Foscam IP camera I bought could ONLY be set up using IE. But you had
to find that out for yourself - Foscam wouldn't offer that information

On 2020-07-30 21:07, malone wrote:
On 31-Jul-2020 4:01 pm, T wrote:
On 2020-07-30 18:59, Bentot wrote:
My WIN 10 Pro has had iexpore.exe removed from both internet explorer
program folders.Â* Cannot get them back via Settings or Control Panel.

My WIN 10 Home still have functional Internet Explorer.

So,, it appearse that M$ is starting to kill IE.

I don't use IE, but a unhappy friend does.Â* She is computer
cballenged, so I will set her up with a differnt browser.


Hi Bentot,

Brave Browser would be a good choice.Â* It is considered
Grandparent safe:

http://brave.com

Brave uses the same "Blink" engineer as does Chrome, but
does not spy on you and has built in ad blocking.

I am running Windows 10 build 2004 pro 64 bit.
This is where my Internet explorer is located;

https://ibb.co/GHXgbJq

Note that it is called iexplore.exe.Â* If running
64 bit, make sure you are not looking in the x86
directory.

On all new builds, I remove Edge and replace it
with a shortcut to IE and rename the shortcut
"Internet Explorer".

Believe it or not, in this day and age, there are
still some web sites out there that only work with
Internet Explorer.

Edge is a mess.

HTH,
-T

The Foscam IP camera I bought could ONLY be set up using IE. But you had
to find that out for yourself - Foscam wouldn't offer that information

I would say "unbelievable", but I have seen it
too many times.

On 31-Jul-2020 4:19 pm, T wrote:
On 2020-07-30 21:07, malone wrote:
On 31-Jul-2020 4:01 pm, T wrote:
On 2020-07-30 18:59, Bentot wrote:
My WIN 10 Pro has had iexpore.exe removed from both internet explorer
program folders.Â* Cannot get them back via Settings or Control Panel.

My WIN 10 Home still have functional Internet Explorer.

So,, it appearse that M$ is starting to kill IE.

I don't use IE, but a unhappy friend does.Â* She is computer
cballenged, so I will set her up with a differnt browser.


Hi Bentot,

Brave Browser would be a good choice.Â* It is considered
Grandparent safe:

http://brave.com

Brave uses the same "Blink" engineer as does Chrome, but
does not spy on you and has built in ad blocking.

I am running Windows 10 build 2004 pro 64 bit.
This is where my Internet explorer is located;

https://ibb.co/GHXgbJq

Note that it is called iexplore.exe.Â* If running
64 bit, make sure you are not looking in the x86
directory.

On all new builds, I remove Edge and replace it
with a shortcut to IE and rename the shortcut
"Internet Explorer".

Believe it or not, in this day and age, there are
still some web sites out there that only work with
Internet Explorer.

Edge is a mess.

HTH,
-T

The Foscam IP camera I bought could ONLY be set up using IE. But you
had to find that out for yourself - Foscam wouldn't offer that
information

I would say "unbelievable", but I have seen it
too many times.

In the case of the Foscam camera it was some obscure security feature -
which I didn't understand - which is implemented in all the other
browsers but not in IE11 that prevented the camera from being set up.

On 2020-07-30 21:41, malone wrote:
On 31-Jul-2020 4:19 pm, T wrote:
On 2020-07-30 21:07, malone wrote:
On 31-Jul-2020 4:01 pm, T wrote:
On 2020-07-30 18:59, Bentot wrote:
My WIN 10 Pro has had iexpore.exe removed from both internet explorer
program folders.Â* Cannot get them back via Settings or Control Panel.

My WIN 10 Home still have functional Internet Explorer.

So,, it appearse that M$ is starting to kill IE.

I don't use IE, but a unhappy friend does.Â* She is computer
cballenged, so I will set her up with a differnt browser.


Hi Bentot,

Brave Browser would be a good choice.Â* It is considered
Grandparent safe:

http://brave.com

Brave uses the same "Blink" engineer as does Chrome, but
does not spy on you and has built in ad blocking.

I am running Windows 10 build 2004 pro 64 bit.
This is where my Internet explorer is located;

https://ibb.co/GHXgbJq

Note that it is called iexplore.exe.Â* If running
64 bit, make sure you are not looking in the x86
directory.

On all new builds, I remove Edge and replace it
with a shortcut to IE and rename the shortcut
"Internet Explorer".

Believe it or not, in this day and age, there are
still some web sites out there that only work with
Internet Explorer.

Edge is a mess.

HTH,
-T

The Foscam IP camera I bought could ONLY be set up using IE. But you
had to find that out for yourself - Foscam wouldn't offer that
information

I would say "unbelievable", but I have seen it
too many times.

In the case of the Foscam camera it was some obscure security feature -
which I didn't understand - which is implemented in all the other
browsers but not in IE11 that prevented the camera from being set up.

IE is a known security hazard. I do not recommend folks
use it. I recommend both Brave and Firefox

T wrote:
On 2020-07-30 21:41, malone wrote:
On 31-Jul-2020 4:19 pm, T wrote:
On 2020-07-30 21:07, malone wrote:
On 31-Jul-2020 4:01 pm, T wrote:
On 2020-07-30 18:59, Bentot wrote:
My WIN 10 Pro has had iexpore.exe removed from both internet explorer
program folders. Cannot get them back via Settings or Control Panel.

My WIN 10 Home still have functional Internet Explorer.

So,, it appearse that M$ is starting to kill IE.

I don't use IE, but a unhappy friend does. She is computer
cballenged, so I will set her up with a differnt browser.


Hi Bentot,

Brave Browser would be a good choice. It is considered
Grandparent safe:

http://brave.com

Brave uses the same "Blink" engineer as does Chrome, but
does not spy on you and has built in ad blocking.

I am running Windows 10 build 2004 pro 64 bit.
This is where my Internet explorer is located;

https://ibb.co/GHXgbJq

Note that it is called iexplore.exe. If running
64 bit, make sure you are not looking in the x86
directory.

On all new builds, I remove Edge and replace it
with a shortcut to IE and rename the shortcut
"Internet Explorer".

Believe it or not, in this day and age, there are
still some web sites out there that only work with
Internet Explorer.

Edge is a mess.

HTH,
-T

The Foscam IP camera I bought could ONLY be set up using IE. But you
had to find that out for yourself - Foscam wouldn't offer that
information

I would say "unbelievable", but I have seen it
too many times.

In the case of the Foscam camera it was some obscure security feature
- which I didn't understand - which is implemented in all the other
browsers but not in IE11 that prevented the camera from being set up.

IE is a known security hazard. I do not recommend folks
use it. I recommend both Brave and Firefox

The use of IE is for the ActiveX.

The ActiveX plugin won't run on any other browser.
Unless Microsoft retrofits it somewhere.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ActiveX

"Google Chrome ActiveX Control is available through the utilization
of the IE Tab Extension for Google Chrome, which allows the use of
a special "IE Tab," an emulation of Internet Explorer within the
Chrome application. The IE Tab displays a second address bar and
processes ActiveX protocols normally. Enabling ActiveX protocols
allows Chrome users access to a variety of interactive dynamic websites
like game and business web applications."

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/d...enadd?hl=en-US

Paul

On Thu, 30 Jul 2020 21:44:00 -0700, T wrote:

On 2020-07-30 21:41, malone wrote:
On 31-Jul-2020 4:19 pm, T wrote:
On 2020-07-30 21:07, malone wrote:
On 31-Jul-2020 4:01 pm, T wrote:
On 2020-07-30 18:59, Bentot wrote:
My WIN 10 Pro has had iexpore.exe removed from both internet explorer
program folders.* Cannot get them back via Settings or Control Panel.

My WIN 10 Home still have functional Internet Explorer.

So,, it appearse that M$ is starting to kill IE.

I don't use IE, but a unhappy friend does.* She is computer
cballenged, so I will set her up with a differnt browser.


Hi Bentot,

Brave Browser would be a good choice.* It is considered
Grandparent safe:

http://brave.com

Brave uses the same "Blink" engineer as does Chrome, but
does not spy on you and has built in ad blocking.

I am running Windows 10 build 2004 pro 64 bit.
This is where my Internet explorer is located;

https://ibb.co/GHXgbJq

Note that it is called iexplore.exe.* If running
64 bit, make sure you are not looking in the x86
directory.

On all new builds, I remove Edge and replace it
with a shortcut to IE and rename the shortcut
"Internet Explorer".

Believe it or not, in this day and age, there are
still some web sites out there that only work with
Internet Explorer.

Edge is a mess.

HTH,
-T

The Foscam IP camera I bought could ONLY be set up using IE. But you
had to find that out for yourself - Foscam wouldn't offer that
information

I would say "unbelievable", but I have seen it
too many times.

In the case of the Foscam camera it was some obscure security feature -
which I didn't understand - which is implemented in all the other
browsers but not in IE11 that prevented the camera from being set up.

IE is a known security hazard. I do not recommend folks
use it. I recommend both Brave and Firefox

I also use IE for my Foscam cameras except for on my Android phone
whcih has an app.

Firefox pulled support for the Foscam plugins a long time ago.

I wish these companies would stop trying to keep me safe. I can
handle it myself.

Geeeesh !

"T" wrote

| Brave Browser would be a good choice. It is considered
| Grandparent safe:
|

Grandparent safe? You mean because the spyware is
pre-approved and built in? It's arguably a sleazeball operation
based on the Web of the 90s. A spyware product that tricks
you into paying them to spy on you by pretending that your
payments will support some great golden age of online
sharing.

The first problem is the assumption that the Web is primarily
a commercial entity. It's not. It's a public space. The second
problem is the implication that the commercial members of that
entity are nice, old-fashioned mom-and-pop stores who deserve
to get a few coins in exchange for your use of their site. A nice,
Andy of Mayberry-style, small town.
Even if you want to support that vision, the Internet
doesn't work that way. Brave is conflating Andy of Mayberry with
corporate shopping malls, helping to transform the Internet into
a corporate shopping mall. They're not helping to bring back
the idealistic sharing platform of the 90s. Brendan Eich seems
to be either naive or deeply cynical. I don't know which.

There have also been complaints about the integrity of the
company overall, which one can read about at the Wikipedia page.

I realize that you just disable the payments stuff, but what kind
of recommendation is that? "Hey, use this browser. They
try to cheat you but that's OK. I just cheat them." If you
want a clean chrome browser there must be better
options than lying to liars. And then, of course, there are
several gecko/Mozilla browsers. They're arguably overproduced,
but much more customizable and less based on being spyware
than chrome-based browsers.

On 7/30/2020 6:59 PM, Bentot wrote:
My WIN 10 Pro has had iexpore.exe removed from both internet explorer
program folders. Cannot get them back via Settings or Control Panel.

My WIN 10 Home still have functional Internet Explorer.

So,, it appearse that M$ is starting to kill IE.

I don't use IE, but a unhappy friend does. She is computer
cballenged, so I will set her up with a differnt browser.




I don't use it either, but I just checked on my computer. It's still there.

--
Ken

On Thu, 30 Jul 2020 18:59:24 -0700, in alt.comp.os.windows-10, Bentot
wrote:

My WIN 10 Pro has had iexpore.exe removed from both internet explorer
program folders. Cannot get them back via Settings or Control Panel.

My WIN 10 Home still have functional Internet Explorer.

So,, it appearse that M$ is starting to kill IE.

I don't use IE, but a unhappy friend does. She is computer
cballenged, so I will set her up with a differnt browser.

still have it, but when i type it into the start box, it comes up as
Microsoft Edge first and IE second from after the "int" all the way
through the last letter of the entire two words.

So I don't know what happened to you. I'm current @ v 2004. But they're
definitely going to be killing it. with fire. it's about time.

--
Zaghadka

Seems a computer engineer, a systems analyst, and a programmer were
driving down a mountain when the brakes gave out. They screamed down the
mountain, gaining speed, but finally managed to grind to a halt, more by
luck than anything else, just inches from a thousand foot drop to jagged
rocks. They all got out of the car:
The computer engineer said, "I think I can fix it."
The systems analyst said, "No, no, I think we should take it
into town and have a specialist look at it."
The programmer said, "OK, but first I think we should get back
in and see if it does it again."

On Thu, 30 Jul 2020 21:51:23 -0500, Rene Lamontagne
wrote:

On 2020-07-30 8:59 p.m., Bentot wrote:
My WIN 10 Pro has had iexpore.exe removed from both internet explorer
program folders. Cannot get them back via Settings or Control Panel.

My WIN 10 Home still have functional Internet Explorer.

So,, it appearse that M$ is starting to kill IE.

I don't use IE, but a unhappy friend does. She is computer
cballenged, so I will set her up with a differnt browser.


What version of windowV 10 Pro do you have?
I have Windows 10 Pro version 2004 19041.388 and internet explorer is
still functional.

Rene

Interesting.... I have the same version. I suspect one of the
quality updates pulled it. Only the iexplore executable was removed.
from each of the program folders (932bit and 64bit) The two IE program
folders are otherwise intact.

iexplore.exe doesn't exist anywhere on this computer.

On 7/30/20 8:59 PM, Bentot wrote:
My WIN 10 Pro has had iexpore.exe removed from both internet explorer
program folders. Cannot get them back via Settings or Control Panel.

My WIN 10 Home still have functional Internet Explorer.

So,, it appearse that M$ is starting to kill IE.

I don't use IE, but a unhappy friend does. She is computer
cballenged, so I will set her up with a differnt browser.

I checked on my Win 10 system (Pro, updated every month) and IE 11 still
there as well as Edge 18 (not Chromium Edge).

--
Mark Lloyd
http://notstupid.us/

"If the Bible is mistaken in telling us where we came from, how can we
trust it to tell us where we're going?"