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:
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?
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.
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).
