Remove IE9?

[HoneyMonster]

This question has doubtlessly been asked before, but please bear with me.

The time it takes when Windows Update downloads and installs updates to
IE9 is rather annoying, since I do not use it anyway. My web browser is
Firefox.

The answer is probably just to uninstall IE9, but how do I go about that
please? I have Googled quite a lot, but the solutions all seem to involve
installing an earlier version. I don't want any versions of Internet
Explorer.

Surely this is easy, and I am missing something obvious, but what is it?

Thanks.

 

[Dave \Crash\ Dummy]

This question has doubtlessly been asked before, but please bear with me.

The time it takes when Windows Update downloads and installs updates to
IE9 is rather annoying, since I do not use it anyway. My web browser is
Firefox.

The answer is probably just to uninstall IE9, but how do I go about that
please? I have Googled quite a lot, but the solutions all seem to involve
installing an earlier version. I don't want any versions of Internet
Explorer.

Surely this is easy, and I am missing something obvious, but what is it?

You can't get rid of IE altogether. The IE engine is an integral part of
the operating system. But you can get rid of IE9 and stop it from
reinstalling. To revert to IE8, look at the list of installed updates
and uninstall the IE9 update. It will then reappeear as an available
update every time you check for updates, but you can choose to hide it.
That is what I have done. I am running IE8.

 

[Big Steel]

This question has doubtlessly been asked before, but please bear with me.

The time it takes when Windows Update downloads and installs updates to
IE9 is rather annoying, since I do not use it anyway. My web browser is
Firefox.

The answer is probably just to uninstall IE9, but how do I go about that
please? I have Googled quite a lot, but the solutions all seem to involve
installing an earlier version. I don't want any versions of Internet
Explorer.

Surely this is easy, and I am missing something obvious, but what is it?

I suggest that you just leave it alone. IE9 and FF coexist on my
machines just fine. You should be happy you're getting updates on anything.

 

[HoneyMonster]

You can't get rid of IE altogether. The IE engine is an integral part of
the operating system. But you can get rid of IE9 and stop it from
reinstalling. To revert to IE8, look at the list of installed updates
and uninstall the IE9 update. It will then reappeear as an available
update every time you check for updates, but you can choose to hide it.
That is what I have done. I am running IE8.

Thanks for the response, but I don't want to revert to anything IE; I
just want to remove it. Surely that shouldn't be difficult?

 

[Big Steel]

Thanks for the response, but I don't want to revert to anything IE; I
just want to remove it. Surely that shouldn't be difficult?

Yeah go ahead an take down the O/S while you're at it.

 

[HoneyMonster]

I suggest that you just leave it alone. IE9 and FF coexist on my
machines just fine. You should be happy you're getting updates on
anything.

Thanks for the reply, but I'm afraid I don't follow. Why should I be
happy I am getting updates to a program I neither need nor use?

 

[Big Steel]

Thanks for the reply, but I'm afraid I don't follow. Why should I be
happy I am getting updates to a program I neither need nor use?

I don't use FF that much either. I suggest you just leave well enough
alone. If it's not broke, then don't fix it.

 

[HoneyMonster]

I don't use FF that much either. I suggest you just leave well enough
alone. If it's not broke, then don't fix it.

Sorry, but I am still lost. I use Firefox regularly, and just want to
remove Internet Explorer. Why is that difficult?

 

[Yousuf Khan]

This question has doubtlessly been asked before, but please bear with me.

The time it takes when Windows Update downloads and installs updates to
IE9 is rather annoying, since I do not use it anyway. My web browser is
Firefox.

Just set your Windows update to not automatically download stuff. Then
you can just pick and choose what to download. If it's an IE9 patch,
then ignore it, and tell Update not to present you with those updates again.

Yousuf Khan

 

[Bruce Hagen]

This question has doubtlessly been asked before, but please bear with
me.

The time it takes when Windows Update downloads and installs updates to
IE9 is rather annoying, since I do not use it anyway. My web browser is
Firefox.

The answer is probably just to uninstall IE9, but how do I go about that
please? I have Googled quite a lot, but the solutions all seem to
involve
installing an earlier version. I don't want any versions of Internet
Explorer.

Surely this is easy, and I am missing something obvious, but what is it?

Thanks.

How do I install or uninstall Internet Explorer 9?
http://windows.microsoft.com/en-US/windows7/how-do-i-install-or-uninstall-internet-explorer-9

You will always have IE8 on your machine as it is a part of your operating
system. You can remove access to it in the Control Panel | Add/Remove
Programs | Add/Remove Windows Components and uncheck IE.

Now reboot and then go to Windows Updates. Select the Custom option to
check for updates and then check the box for IE9 to Do not show me this
again.

 

[HoneyMonster]

How do I install or uninstall Internet Explorer 9?
http://windows.microsoft.com/en-US/windows7/how-do-i-install-or- uninstall-internet-explorer-9

You will always have IE8 on your machine as it is a part of your
operating system. You can remove access to it in the Control Panel |
Add/Remove Programs | Add/Remove Windows Components and uncheck IE.

Now reboot and then go to Windows Updates. Select the Custom option to
check for updates and then check the box for IE9 to Do not show me this
again.

Thanks, but I still don't understand. How on earth is a web browser part
of the operating system? Surely it's just an application?

HM

 

[Bruce Hagen]

Thanks, but I still don't understand. How on earth is a web browser part
of the operating system? Surely it's just an application?

HM

IE6 is a part of the XP OS. IE7 is a part of the Vista OS. IE8 is a part
of the Win7 OS. Why? Well, that's the way MS does it.

Think of this now. Outlook Express was a part of XP. Windows Mail was a
part of Vista. When Windows 7 came out with no built-in e-mail client at
all, everyone went nuts!

You can't please everyone.

 

[Big Steel]

Thanks, but I still don't understand. How on earth is a web browser part
of the operating system? Surely it's just an application?

HM

The IE engine is an integral part of the operating system.

Someone else posted that sentence to you. Don't you get it? You take out
IE, and you take out the O/S. It don't get anymore simpler than that.

 

[Yousuf Khan]

Thanks for the response, but I don't want to revert to anything IE; I
just want to remove it. Surely that shouldn't be difficult?

IE can't be removed from any version of Windows, since Windows 95 OSR2
it's been integrated directly into the operating system. The Windows
Explorer makes use of IE and vice-versa. How else do you think IE became
the dominant web browser in the world? At this point in time it's still
got over 80% market share. Microsoft included it in the Windows, and
people just used it by default, and Netscape went bankrupt.

Yousuf Khan

 

[Leala]

Thanks, but I still don't understand. How on earth is a web browser part
of the operating system? Surely it's just an application?

HM

Get a MAC or use Linux, troll.

 

[R. C. White]

Hi, HM.

Leala may be right: You might be a troll, because you have repeatedly
ignored what several have told you in very plain English. Internet Explorer
is an INTEGRAL part of the Windows operating system. It cannot be removed
by us mere mortals.

That's what Microsoft told the United States Department of Justice - and the
court - in the famous anti-trust lawsuit back in 1994 and 1998. Bingle for
"DOJ v Microsoft" to find millions of hits. Here's the first one I saw:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_v._Microsoft

Whether you like the answer or not, you'll get nowhere arguing with us in
this newsgroup. We are just users like you and have no more power over
Microsoft than you do. You'll need to talk directly with Microsoft. Take
your lawyer with you.

RC
--
R. C. White, CPA
San Marcos, TX
(e-mail address removed)
Microsoft Windows MVP (2002-2010)
Windows Live Mail 2011 (Build 15.4.3508.1109) in Win7 Ultimate x64 SP1


"HoneyMonster" wrote in message
This question has doubtlessly been asked before, but please bear with me.

The time it takes when Windows Update downloads and installs updates to
IE9 is rather annoying, since I do not use it anyway. My web browser is
Firefox.

The answer is probably just to uninstall IE9, but how do I go about that
please? I have Googled quite a lot, but the solutions all seem to involve
installing an earlier version. I don't want any versions of Internet
Explorer.

Surely this is easy, and I am missing something obvious, but what is it?

Thanks.

 

[Tester]

but I still don't understand. How on earth is a web browser part
of the operating system? Surely it's just an application?

IE is definitely integral part of WINDOWS Operating System. It is not
just an application. If you don't like to hear this or if you don't like
IE /per se/ then the easiest solution is to start using Linux. I can't
advice you in Linux because as far as I am concerned it is for the
hobbyists and enthusiasts which I am neither. But I am sure you know
how to go about finding out about Linux which, you will be glad to hear,
comes without IE of any flavours.

Hope this helps.

 

[Tattoo Vampire]

Thanks for the response, but I don't want to revert to anything IE; I
just want to remove it. Surely that shouldn't be difficult?

You can't completely remove IE.

 

[Charles Tomaras]

Thanks, but I still don't understand. How on earth is a web browser part
of the operating system? Surely it's just an application?

Let me give you a tip moving forward...if this bothers you...don't buy a
Chromebook.

 

[Paul]

Sorry, but I am still lost. I use Firefox regularly, and just want to
remove Internet Explorer. Why is that difficult?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Removal_of_Internet_Explorer

"Removing Internet Explorer does have a number of consequences. Some
programs bundled with Windows, such as Outlook Express, and some basic
Windows components, such as Help and Support, depend on libraries installed
by IE in order to function. With IE removed, they may fail to work, or
exhibit unexpected behavior. Several common 3rd party applications,
Intuit's Quicken being a typical example, depend heavily upon the HTML
rendering components installed by the browser.

For this reason, most of the IE removal utilities offer the compromise
option of removing large parts of IE while still leaving behind the HTML
rendering engine or "IE core," which allows many of these 3rd party
applications to function normally. Also, in versions of Windows before
Vista, it is also not possible to run Microsoft's Windows Update or
Microsoft Update with any other browser due to the service's
implementation of an ActiveX control, which no other browser supports.

In Windows Vista and Windows 7, Windows Update is implemented as a
Control Panel applet."

HTH,
Paul