How to uninstall Internet Explorer 5.5 (win2k)?

aromes · 08-29-2005, 03:14 PM

How to uninstall Internet Explorer 5.5 SP2
under Windows 2000? Is there a way of doing that without the win2000 CD?

PS: I've searched the web, but I get only instructions for IE on win9X.

removed9808a · 08-29-2005, 03:19 PM

Why do you wish to uninstall Internet Explorer 5.5?

If your trying to upgrade your Internet Explorer, use Windows Update.

NormanS · 08-30-2005, 07:00 PM

You cannot uninstall "Internet Explorer" in any of its versions from Windows 2000 Pro, because IE is a superset of "Windows Explorer", an intrinsic part of the operating system.

Page 761 of "Using Microsoft Windows 2000 Professional", by Robert Cowan and Brian Knittel, states this:
"When Internet Explorer has switched to an ordinary Windows Explorer view, the File, Open command is no longer available"; this statement links the relationship between these two programs.

Stu_computer · 09-01-2005, 12:55 PM

If you just want to remove IE from the desktop and Start menu then use...

Control Panel | Add/Remove Programs | Add/Remove Windows Components | and remove checkmark from Internet Explorer, click next, finish.

08-29-2005, 03:14 PM	#1 (permalink)
aromes Registered User Join Date: Dec 2004 Posts: 19 OS: windows2000/xp	How to uninstall Internet Explorer 5.5 (win2k)? How to uninstall Internet Explorer 5.5 SP2 under Windows 2000? Is there a way of doing that without the win2000 CD? PS: I've searched the web, but I get only instructions for IE on win9X.

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Stu_computer Tech Hardware Team Join Date: Jul 2005 Posts: 1,459 OS: Windows	If you just want to remove IE from the desktop and Start menu then use... Control Panel \| Add/Remove Programs \| Add/Remove Windows Components \| and remove checkmark from Internet Explorer, click next, finish. __________________

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removed9808a Registered User Join Date: Aug 2005 Posts: 70 OS: .	Why do you wish to uninstall Internet Explorer 5.5? If your trying to upgrade your Internet Explorer, use Windows Update.

08-30-2005, 07:00 PM	#3 (permalink)
NormanS Registered User Join Date: Jul 2005 Posts: 14 OS: Windows 2000 Pro	You cannot uninstall "Internet Explorer" in any of its versions from Windows 2000 Pro, because IE is a superset of "Windows Explorer", an intrinsic part of the operating system. Page 761 of "Using Microsoft Windows 2000 Professional", by Robert Cowan and Brian Knittel, states this: "When Internet Explorer has switched to an ordinary Windows Explorer view, the File, Open command is no longer available"; this statement links the relationship between these two programs.