Can Internet Explorer be removed from a WIndows computer safely?
By akumei1269
@akumei1269 (1749)
India
March 1, 2009 5:33am CST
One of my friends told me that Internet Explorer can be removed from a windows PC and that to without any future danger to the machine. But at the time of installing windows the person who installed it advised me not to try to remove any component of windows. Otherwise the machine would not run properly.
Now I have found that Internet Explorer to be having many problems and I am annoyed with it. So, I want to do something with it . But I am confused. Which one is true-IE can be removed safely or not?
3 responses
@Vladilyich1 (1454)
• Canada
2 Mar 09
It cannot be 100% removed because quite a few other features require the IE browser function to work. For instance, you cannot perform Microsoft Update without IE. The browser function itself is required by MSp-Word, etc. You can get rid of most of it, but you will lose some functionality of windows.
@platinumgold (135)
• Philippines
1 Mar 09
Yes you can remove them, go to start, control panel, add remove programs icon, and then choose internet explorer... I do not know if it can affect the OS as far as I know its has separate from OS, its only a package of the windows OS since the owner is the microsoft.
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@lsubash520 (226)
• India
1 Mar 09
I think internet explorer wont appear in control panel, is there any way to remove this tool from the PC?
