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IE11 was uninstalled because of a problem how to reinstall it (win 10 64bit(



 
 
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Old March 20th 18, 05:15 PM posted to alt.comp.os.windows-10
Bill Bradshaw
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Default IE11 was uninstalled because of a problem how to reinstall it (win 10 64bit(

Under C:\Program Files\Internet Explorer there is a program called
ieinstal.exe. I have always wondered if a person had a problem with
Internet Explorer could you run this program to reinstall Internet Explorer.
I wonder if this subdirectory got deleted when he lost IE.
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Andy Burns wrote:
Paul wrote:

mick.davies wrote:

IE11. Its not there.
Does yours look like this ?
https://s9.postimg.org/cgzngwiun/features.gif
That seems to be a Pro or Enterprise version, Home will have fewer
options, but IE11 should still be there ...
It is.
IE11 check box is present in Programs and Features on Windows 10
Home



Sorry for not replying sooner but I have been busy with other things

Thanks for all the replies. can confirm that my version of windows
is Windows 10 Pro version 1709 OS Build 16299.309

Looking at the windows features box, there is no internet explorer
listed

I contacted Microsoft support/help and they "took control of my PC"
with some reluctance from me. I saw what they were doing at all times
and after going through things I already tried, thay started to
dowload windows. At that time they said it was impossible to fix
without reinstall from scratch. I didnt want to do this and go
through all the reinstalling of software I have so that was it. It
seems I am destined to used Edge for the future.

A further snag on using Edge is my shorcuts on the desktop, produced
by dragging the address from 1e11 onto the desktop, No longer work as
the properties show them as .website files.

Another problem is clicking on a link in an outlook emaill which
previously opened the link but now produces an error box "This
operation has been canceled due to restrictions in effect on this
computer ....."

So Thats it I think - internet explorer is no longer available and
who knows what other problems will surface over time.

As I say thanks for all the help but to no avail


Just for the record (so someone else doesn't do it),
exactly how did you do the uninstall of IE11 ?

Was it purely by the tick box in Programs and Features : Windows
features ?
Or did you use something like Revo Uninstaller, or a similar
crafty method ?

Paul



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Old March 20th 18, 07:24 PM posted to alt.comp.os.windows-10
Paul[_32_]
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Default IE11 was uninstalled because of a problem how to reinstall it(win 10 64bit(

Bill Bradshaw wrote:
Under C:\Program Files\Internet Explorer there is a program called
ieinstal.exe. I have always wondered if a person had a problem with
Internet Explorer could you run this program to reinstall Internet Explorer.
I wonder if this subdirectory got deleted when he lost IE.


I rummaged around on the Internet first, and it's a nice
little game Microsoft has running here.

There doesn't appear to be an old-fashioned way to fix it.
If I were to grab a Win8.1 version of iexplore, the manifest isn't
going to allow that to install in Windows 10.

*******

These are some "breadcrumbs" I dug up. Since my copy of Windows 10
is not broken, I can't really try these and see if anything is fixed.

First, I tried this. Administrator Command Prompt

dism /online /get-features

The last item that returns is:

Internet-Explorer-Optional-amd64

I tossed that into a Windows aearch (my C: volume is fully indexed) and
it located a sessions.xml file. This gave me a potential mapping
between the feature, and a package. There's probably a proper way to
fetch this information, so this one is merely a breadcrumb at the moment.

package id="Microsoft-Windows-InternetExplorer-Optional-Package~31bf3856ad364e35~amd64~~11.0.16299.15" name="Internet-Explorer-Optional-Package" targetState="Default" options="0"
update name="Internet-Explorer-Optional-amd64" select="On"/
/package

OK, for the following, you want an Administrator Powershell. You
can type "powershell" into your cmd.exe window from the previous
query, and switch to Powershell.

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/pow...?view=win10-ps

Get-WindowsOptionalFeature -Online

That returns the usual list, with Internet-Explorer-Optional-amd64 in it.

And this one, promises to effectively tick the box

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/pow...?view=win10-ps

Enable-WindowsOptionalFeature -Online -FeatureName Internet-Explorer-Optional-amd64

It might need a packagename argument. I can't predict what it will
want. What I did find in a search, is that the "Disable" version
of that command, has a "progress bar" which implies it's doing
an uninstall in real-time. So perhaps when you
Enable-WindowsOptionalFeature, it will do more than tick the
box, and it will actually do the install. What it will be
doing (hopefully), is hard-linking some files in WinSXS, into
the Program Files area set aside for Internet Explorer.

Paul
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Old March 20th 18, 09:17 PM posted to alt.comp.os.windows-10
Char Jackson
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Default IE11 was uninstalled because of a problem how to reinstall it (win 10 64bit(

On Tue, 20 Mar 2018 14:24:49 -0400, Paul wrote:

Bill Bradshaw wrote:
Under C:\Program Files\Internet Explorer there is a program called
ieinstal.exe. I have always wondered if a person had a problem with
Internet Explorer could you run this program to reinstall Internet Explorer.
I wonder if this subdirectory got deleted when he lost IE.


I rummaged around on the Internet first, and it's a nice
little game Microsoft has running here.

There doesn't appear to be an old-fashioned way to fix it.
If I were to grab a Win8.1 version of iexplore, the manifest isn't
going to allow that to install in Windows 10.

*******

These are some "breadcrumbs" I dug up. Since my copy of Windows 10
is not broken, I can't really try these and see if anything is fixed.


VMs, man. :-) Create, break, fix. Lather, rinse, repeat.


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Old March 21st 18, 12:37 AM posted to alt.comp.os.windows-10
Paul[_32_]
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Default IE11 was uninstalled because of a problem how to reinstall it(win 10 64bit(

Char Jackson wrote:
On Tue, 20 Mar 2018 14:24:49 -0400, Paul wrote:

Bill Bradshaw wrote:
Under C:\Program Files\Internet Explorer there is a program called
ieinstal.exe. I have always wondered if a person had a problem with
Internet Explorer could you run this program to reinstall Internet Explorer.
I wonder if this subdirectory got deleted when he lost IE.

I rummaged around on the Internet first, and it's a nice
little game Microsoft has running here.

There doesn't appear to be an old-fashioned way to fix it.
If I were to grab a Win8.1 version of iexplore, the manifest isn't
going to allow that to install in Windows 10.

*******

These are some "breadcrumbs" I dug up. Since my copy of Windows 10
is not broken, I can't really try these and see if anything is fixed.


VMs, man. :-) Create, break, fix. Lather, rinse, repeat.


Agreed.

Now, consider what I'm being asked to reproduce.

If I go to Programs and Features : Windows Features, if I
tick or untick the IE11 box, it will enable or disable IE11.
The IE11 box will continue to stay in the menu the whole
time I play with it. In short, I can't break it.

Now, the OP claims to have "uninstalled IE11" and the
tick box and the line for IE11 in Windows Feature, has
"disappeared".

Do you know of a reliable way to rip the nuts off a
Windows Feature entry ? I think it's related to those
Optional Features commands, but I haven't seen one yet
that covers overall Windows SKU policy.

I was thinking GPEdit, but I'm not certain an *exact*
one for that exists. I even took a quick look through GPEdit
and didn't see what I was looking for.

There might be some SKU of Windows 10 which comes with
no copy of IE11. Perchance, might the OS have entered
into that state, calling itself Windows 10 N instead
of a regular copy of Windows 10 ? I don't know.
I don't know how such OSes are bolted together and
implement their selective software policies.

I don't think deleting a few files is going to do it.
Putzing with the powershell might. Or, it might not,
if the objective of the powershell commands is to duplicate
the tick-box logic only.

The OP seems to think IE11 was there at one time, and to
work on the OPs problem, I have to be sure I "broke it
the same way", in order to prove a fix works.

I could probably install the SKU that doesn't come with
IE11, and start from there. But that's about the only
plan I can think of at the moment. And my plan isn't
an exact match for the OP (who had IE11 at one time).

Paul
 




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