Uninstall Internet Explorer 8 in Windows 7

According to statistics, Internet Explorer is the most popular and largest browser on the Internet. Of course, all of us here find that statistics are not always true or even funny.

But the fact that IE still accounts for about 60-70% of the browser market and must confirm that it is still very strong. While most knowledgeable people have switched to Firefox, there are still millions of Windows users who are still using IE, not because they prefer to use it simply as it comes with its operating system - Windows.

I agree that IE8 has some nice features and is outstanding compared to IE7 or 6, but for many people who have switched to Firefox, IE takes up a lot of space on the computer and is not practical.

Windows 7, like previous versions of Windows, is included with Internet Explorer, but Microsoft faces a number of legal threats to the installation of IE attached to Windows, eventually having to provide an option. choose in Windows 7 to uninstall IE. Only that option is deeply hidden and in today's article, we will learn how to remove Internet Explorer from Windows 7 on your computer.

First, open Control Panel and go to Add-Remove programs utility. In Windows 7, this utility is available under Programs and has a simple name: Uninstall a Program .

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On the right side of this window, you will see a list of all the programs installed on your computer, but Internet Explorer 8 is not on this list. To see it, look in the right pane and you will see a link called " Turn windows features on or off ". Clicking on this link will open a window with a list of all Windows features that you can turn off (or turn on).

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Internet Explorer is on this list as a feature of Windows and it is turned on by default

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To delete Internet Explorer you must uncheck the Internet Explorer 8 option.

In fact, this feature only turns off Interet Explorer, which means it still exists, but you won't see it in the program menu and won't be able to run it using the command line. All links that require opening Internet Explorer will fail with a message saying that the requested application is not found.

If you want to reopen IE, you simply turn it back on.