Sign up for the Confident Computing newsletter for weekly solutions to make your life easier. Click here and get The Ask Leo! I recently updated to Internet Explorer 8. I would like to change it back to Internet Explorer 7. Can this be done? If so, how? If you can, I actually recommend trying that utility first.
If this happens to you, things get complicated. Those three little bullets encompass a lot of work, and a lot of potential for things to not work, depending on how much activity has occurred on your system after SP3 was installed. Finally, the original knowledgebase article I referenced above, How do I uninstall or remove Internet Explorer 8?
These involve running the uninstaller manually via commands entered or pasted into a Windows Command Prompt. Subscribe to Confident Computing! Less frustration and more confidence, solutions, answers, and tips in your inbox every week. I definitely agree the Microsoft utility should be tried, probably first. However, the link you provide at the beginning of the article appears to be broken. It worked like a charm for me, and hopefully it might help others.
Thanks for the instructions though, in case I ever need them. I mostly use FF3 but still. It is unusable. All the problems I have seen with IE 8 have concerns about its speed or incompatibility.
My problems have been that it has slowed the opening of programs. Before upgrading in General I keep a copy of the setup files in a special folder … called setup files. It would not accept his password. Problem solved. I think it is ironic that he can no longer use a Microsoft browser to connect to a Microsoft program.
IE would then close down, automatically reopen and recover the page, only to have the same thing happen again. It appears that the website continues to have a problem. I had the same problem. I installed IE to over-ride IE7. I looked up remove a programme but it wasn,t there. I did this without any problem and reinstalled IE7.
IE8 is NOT a programme but an update. By the way I am running Windows Vist Basic version. Tony Denmark. THEN if things go south, you can simply restore from your backup — hey, presto! It seems to me, that most of the folks who are having problems with IE8 are running Vista!
Sound advice and logic there! Another timely article, Leo. It took me through all the necessary steps, including the reinstallation of IE7 to my settings. By the way, IE8 has worked perfectly on my Vista machines. So generalizations based on OS are useless. I have been using firefox for a while year or more and love it.
It occasionally has a hiccup, but for the most part is trouble free, fast and reliable. Thanks for the tips to NOT update! I hate FireFox. In the left-hand column, click Recovery. On the following screen there are various options, including Startup Repair, System Restore, Command Prompt, and more. Instead, click 'Uninstall Updates'. Click the appropriate option and your PC will restart it may take a few minutes.
Finally, restart your PC if you are prompted to do so. Sometimes, an update will simply refuse to be uninstalled properly via either the Settings app or Advanced startup method. In times like this, you can use the command prompt to force Windows 10 to uninstall the patch. The following steps will outline a few of your options, all of which should hopefully do the job.
You may then have to restart your computer so the uninstall process can be finished. Feedback will be sent to Microsoft: By pressing the submit button, your feedback will be used to improve Microsoft products and services. Privacy policy. The Internet Explorer 11 desktop application will be retired and go out of support on June 15, for a list of what's in scope, see the FAQ.
Learn more here. This article provides the system requirements before installing Internet Explorer 11 and checks for possible problems that may occur after installation. When you try to install Internet Explorer 11, the installation may fail and generate an error message. This can occur for various reasons. To resolve common installation issues, try one or more of the following troubleshooting methods.
Here is the checklist before you install Internet Explorer To successfully install Internet Explorer 11, make sure that your system meets one of the following minimum operating system requirements:. Internet Explorer 11 is included with Windows 8. Therefore, you don't have to install Internet Explorer 11 on these operating systems. For more information about the minimum operating system requirements for Internet Explorer 11, see System requirements for Internet Explorer Internet Explorer 11 tries to install required software and components automatically.
If this installation fails, Internet Explorer stops the installation process. In this situation, you must install the prerequisite software manually before you can install Internet Explorer For more information, see Prerequisite updates for Internet Explorer 11 to obtain the prerequisite updates for Internet Explorer 11 for Windows 7.
Some computers that have hybrid video adapters are not yet compatible with Internet Explorer 11 for Windows 7. Internet Explorer 11 will not install on these systems until updated hardware drivers are installed. For more information about this issue, see Internet Explorer 11 does not install on some hybrid graphics systems.
Internet Explorer 11 for Windows 7 cannot automatically install prerequisites if any update installation is in progress or if a system restart is pending.
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