How to Remove IE 8 from Windows 7 Completely
By Angsuman Chakraborty, Gaea News NetworkWednesday, March 4, 2009
Enough is enough. If you think that you don’t want to rely on Internet explorer anymore (after seeing till the very end from IE 5 to IE 8 ) you can switch to Firefox or Google Chrome. Not a big deal is it? But nagging and incorrigible that Windows is, it won’t let you remove or uninstall something that you are not using just because its made by them. You have paid for the product and now you can not get rid of it. How annoying is it? We had to compromise in Windows XP and Windows Vista. But not anymore. In Windows 7 build 7048, thankfully there is a feature by which you can remove IE 8. Let us see how.
- Enter the Control Panel and lfindt All Control Panel Options
- Click Programs and Features
- In the left sidebar, click Turn Windows Features On or Off (you will be thrown a UAC prompt if you elevated UAC)
- Look for Internet Explorer 8 in the list and uncheck it.
- Click OK. You will see a prompt notifying you of a reboot.
- The machine will reboot once, configure things, and reboot again.
I just hope that Microsoft will be sane enough to keep this feature active for the final version too. What do you think?
[Source: chris123nt.com]
Tags: how to disable IE 8 in Windows 7, IE 8, windows 7 IE disabling, windows 7 trick
 DAHHHHH |
|
March 14, 2010: 3:06 am
@shmhgfsd or better yet uBuntu !!! Go linux and say goodbye to all the closed source restrictions and say hello to the freedom of OPEN SOURCE COMPUTING!!! re:Get Mac,turn these sucker off once for all! |
 shmhgfsd |
|
December 20, 2009: 5:47 pm
@Bjorn that sucks thats why I was trying to do it RE:It SUCKS. Wanna know why? ’cause IE8 is still there, even when you turned it off. I’ve got .dbx files which I want to import in Outlook. To do this, I need to install Outlook Express, which only comes with IE6. When I want to install IE6, windows keep naggin’ that IE8 is still there and therefore cannot be installed! Argh, FRUST! |
 Yedwa |
December 20, 2009: 12:36 pm
Unistalled IE8 and “Engaged to Google Chromo” and that thanks to you. All work like a charm now. Can read my mails on hotmail. |
 soup |
October 20, 2009: 3:02 pm
I used to enjoy the IE8 until it crash and every time that i do open. The computer will stop working but luckily that i still have mozilla. Is there anyway to remove it not only turn it off or i have to del it in regedit mode? |
 Bjorn |
October 9, 2009: 2:21 pm
It SUCKS. Wanna know why? ’cause IE8 is still there, even when you turned it off. I’ve got .dbx files which I want to import in Outlook. To do this, I need to install Outlook Express, which only comes with IE6. When I want to install IE6, windows keep naggin’ that IE8 is still there and therefore cannot be installed! Argh, FRUST! |
 Jake |
October 6, 2009: 12:59 pm
They keep the feature which allows you to turn off IE8, but from my understanding it does not delete IE8. I was told that IE is needed for the error reports. |
 Frank |
June 5, 2009: 7:22 pm
If you uncheck you do take IE8 away from available programs, but it is still there and if you check the box again it will show all your favourites, cache stuff etc. |
Johan