I’ve decided to give up on Internet Explorer 7 or the “Send Error Report Generator” as I have come to think of it. I can find no way to get rid of it after exhausting the methods here:
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/927177
Method 1 doesn’t work because because instruction “C” tells me to locate IE7 in Add/Remove. It doesn’t appear there on my computer. Apparently it only appears there on some peoples’ computers and I’m not one of those people.
Method 2 doesn’t work because doing Step 2 part “C” results in a Run error box which says that this command refers to a location that is unavailable, blah, blah, blah. There are additional commands here to try:
none of which work any better.
YES! YES! YES! I HAVE FIREFOX. I EVEN HAVE OPERA. They are much better and only idiots don’t know this and want to use Internet Explorer. YES! YES! YES! I know Windows sucks and I should get a Mac. I have one of those too. With that out of the way, does anybody know of a method for uninstalling IE7 and reverting back to IE6 that doesn’t involve a complete re-install of WindowsXP?
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With that out of the way, does anybody know of a method for uninstalling IE7 and reverting back to IE6 that doesn’t involve a complete re-install of WindowsXP?
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IE and windows are very tightly integrated, stripping out IE in any way shape or form is not really feasible. That said, most of the problems I have encountered with IE7 involved machines that had problems when the IE7 upgrade occurred or had browser plugins that were incompatible with IE7. I do the IE7 loads as a normal part of all system reloads in my shop and the only problem I have ever had is with a customer who then tried to reload her old SBC setup disks triggering the well documented psaspi.dll disaster after I had already reestablished her internet connection under IE7 correctly so she would not need to perform that task.
Do a search for the file spuninst.exe and run it from wherever you find it (it should be in \Windows\ie7\spuninst\ - but it might be somewhere else, which could be why method 2 didn’t work for you (set a system restore point first).
Or just leave IE7 in place and use firefox. It’s better anyway.
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Do a search for the file spuninst.exe and run it from wherever you find it (it should be in \Windows\ie7\spuninst\ - but it might be somewhere else, which could be why method 2 didn’t work for you (set a system restore point first).
Or just leave IE7 in place and use firefox. It’s better anyway.
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Thanks but Search found 24 apps named “spuninst.exe.” I don’t know enough to start clicking on them.
I did something like put 00.00.00 in the address under network settings and set it to port 80 on my other machine. It pretty much disables IE. …
Oh, wait, here are the instructions. I gotta say, it’s like not having IE at all, yet no risk of screwing up the rest of Windows. This has completed restored my happiness. I use Firefox, but my wife took her PC and had to use IE to display some school stuff properly, and bingo, all sorts of hijacks, redirects, pops, slow performance…until I disabled it as noted below.
Several simple, popular methods exist to disable IE. The easiest way to remove users’ ability to browse with IE is to add a bogus proxy server to IE’s Internet Settings.
Follow these steps:
- In IE, go to Tools | Internet Options.
- On the Connections tab, click the LAN Settings button.
- In the resulting dialog box, select the following check box in the Proxy Server section: Use a Proxy Server For Your LAN (These Settings Will Not Apply To Dial-up Or VPN Connections).
- Enter 0.0.0.0 in the Address text box.
- Enter 80 in the Port text box, and click OK.
http://articles.techrepublic.com.com/5100-1009_11-5838360.html
Oh, wait, I re-read the OP. So, you want to ‘upgrade’ back to an older more reliable version…as the Windows PC PR spokeswomen would say. 
Did you check the “Show Updates” box at the top of the Add/Remove Programs window?
Perhaps IE7 is considering itself an “update” and that’s why you can’t find it.
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Did you check the “Show Updates” box at the top of the Add/Remove Programs window?
Perhaps IE7 is considering itself an “update” and that’s why you can’t find it.
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Yes “Show Updates” is checked. It does not show up in the Add/Remove list.