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Why and How to get rid of IE7

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oldfogy:
Because of the many problems associated with IE7.
I would recommend that you remove IE7.

Just use "Add or Remove Programs" in Control Panel and look for "Windows IE7"
(toward the bottom of the list) and select "Remove".
IE7 will then be removed and automatically replaced with IE6 with no loss of settings.

THEN, go to the MS update page and check for updates, IE7 will be there again .
This time select the option to "Hide this update etc"

If you don't then it will be automatically download again, as it is now in the "High-Priority" section.

(If you use Automatic Updates) then you may want to disable this first.
Just-in-case it downloads again before you hide it.

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Although there is a download from MS.
Instructions here from MS how to remove it.

http://www.microsoft.com/windows/ie/support/default.mspx

But, after reading carefully the info from the MS Blocker Q&A sheet.
The better option in the long term is still to:-

"Go back to MS update page and check the box to hide the update in the future"

Reason:
Whilst the MS Blocker tool will stop the automatic download of IE7 as a High-Priority download,
it will not stop it still being shown as an optional download.
Therefore could still possibly be downloaded again by accident.

At least by hiding it, then it would have to be physically un-checked from the hidden options before it could be downloaded again.

havelock:
...and then go to either http://getfirefox.com or http://opera.com and download a decent browser...

mr_chris:
Thanks for the guide OF - although I do think that IE7 has a lot of positives compared to IE6.

What I didn't agree with MS releasing it on WindowsUpdate as an automatic, high-priority download. That has caused a few problems for some people I know who phoned me up in panic not knowing what to do when they were presented with this new user interface - "Where are all my favourites?!" etc...

I also think they released it too early and there are a few bugs that really should have been sorted - that said I don't really have many problems with it.. in fact I quite like it.

oldfogy:
I did try it myself and even sang it's praises, but after about 2 weeks I started to notice just the odd little thing happen.

But the crunch came when one of my audio programs would not work "MusicMatch Jukebox" which ended up because of IE7.
(But it worked okay after I got rid of IE7)

Over on another site (CA) there is a list that has been put together which stands at around 30 known problems that people have experienced.
But as you say, it works for you.

I know exactly how you feel, with another site I use, where most people are having problems, I very rarely have problems. (mine are usually self inflicted)  :lol:


--- Quote ---I also think they released it too early
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Or better still they should have kept it just for Vista, which could have then been a little bit more of a selling point.

mr_chris:
Maybe I just got lucky ;D

There is one intranet site used by the school I work in that doesn't work properly with IE7 - some dodgy DHTML menus that just don't display! That said, I'm not sure if it works with FireFox either, it might have been programmed specifically with IE6 in mind. Not to worry, IE6 is still on the terminal server and won't be deployed around school for a long time yet!

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