Removing IE from system


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That's what Microsoft say, but in 1999, Shane Brookes disproved this with his 98lite software.

Some applications require the HTML engine of IE, so I think you need the DLL files for them to work. XPlite might remove it in a way that allows applications to use the engine though.

yeah, but if you click the windows update link guess what opens. what i wanna know is how do i remove the stupid IE icon from my desktop. in the display settings thing i have it set not to show, and in tweatui i have it set not to show, and i did the thing listed above which should just remove all the icons and shortcuts to it, but it came back a couple of weeks ago and i can't get rid of it. :(

Do you really want to remove Explorer? Just delete these files from the system32 folder:

The 56 files in System32 XP installs for Explorer.

actxprxy.dll

asctrls.ocx

atl.dll.lnk

browsewm.dll

cdfview.dll

ckcnv.exe

cryptdlg.dll

cryptext.dll

cryptnet.dll

csseqchk.dll

dispex.dll

dxtrans.dll

hlink.dll

homepage.inf

ie4uinit.exe

ieakeng.dll

ieaksie.dll

ieakui.dll

iedkcs32.dll

iepeers.dll

iesetup.dll

imgutil.dll

initpki.dll

inseng.dll

isign32.dll

jobexec.dll

jscript.dll

jsproxy.dll

licmgr10.dll

mobsync.dll

mobsync.exe

msencode.dll

msidle.dll

msieftp.dll

msnsspc.dll

msr2c.dll

msr2cenu.dll

msrating.dll

mssign32.dll

mstime.dll

msxml.dll

msxml3.dll

occache.dll

plugin.ocx

pngfilt.dll

proctexe.ocx

regwiz.exe

regwizc.dll

scrobj.dll

sendmail.dll

simpdata.tlb

sysinv.dll

t2embed.dll

tdc.ocx

webcheck.dll

xenroll.dll

yes, do that. then run any program that connects to the internet. most likely either the program or windows will crash. if you don't like IE, just don't use it. most of the applications out there use IE though, and when one of them tries to, stuff happens ;)

Nonsense.

Just install 98lite/2Klite/XPlite and rip that mutha out.

Use caution, though. Things have a habit of busting if you remove IE.... in particular, I found that the ability to show/hide XP's system tray icons is removed along with IE, Windows Media Player may not automatically download codecs correctly and you can definitely kiss Windows/Office Update goodbye.

I'm not sure I would call the list of files I gave to remove IE nonsense...unless of course you are calling XPLite nonsense, too. That list of files is the exact files XPLite removes. I kid you not.

If you only want to remove IE with XPLite, I just saved you the money it would cost to purchase the program.

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