Can You Just Re-Install IE8 From Scratch

Factual Questions
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I have a friend and he uses IE8. He’s one of these types that just clicks on everything which is fine I guess, but now his IE is just a mess.

I ran AVG (latest and updated) as well as Spybot and Malwarebytes’ Anti-Malware and no viruses or problems. Then I looked at his IE8. He has over 50 (I stopped counting at 50) add ons and the like.

Now I don’t use IE so I’m not terribly familiar with it. I went to tools and saw you could disable the add-ons you don’t like, but I was wondering is there a way you can just start over.

If it was Firefox, I’d just uninstall it. And reinstall a fresh brand new version of Firefox.

As you know it’s very difficult to just get rid of IE.

So before I started Googling around, I thought I’d be lazy and see if there were any “expert” IE users who could tell me how I could go about getting his IE8 back to to as if there were no add-ons to it and it was installed clean and fresh.

Thanks

2

It’s not that hard, it’s listed in the Control Panel under Windows Internet Explorer 8, just uninstall it from there and it will revert to IE 7.

3

As Telperion says uninstalling IE8 will revert back to IE 7

I guess all the add-ons will go away with IE 8

4

IE8 and IE7 have uninstallers in add/remove programs.

You can run in safe-mode which disables the add-ons and you can delete them from the add-on manager.

5

Thanks that is actually a cool place to look over. Thanks for the link

The computer in question is running Vista and there is no option the control panel to remove IE.

The only way I found so far to do this, is the computer came with IE7 and there and MS update for IE8. I guess I can uninstall the update and then reinstall it.

I’ll try that. Thanks for everyone’s help