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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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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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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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