Can you have more than one browser installed? Sure.
I have 4 installed at the moment, IE, (Internet Explorer), Firefox, SeaMonkey, and Netscape 4.7. They all work perfectly well together and do not conflict, even if more than one is opened at the same time.
About your IE8. Instead of using System Restore, have you tried removing IE8 through the Start > Control Panel > Add/Remove Programs utility? That should uninstall IE8 and 'revert back' to IE7.
It isn't listed as Internet Explorer 8, but instead is listed as "Windows Internet Explorer 8".
I hope that helps.
Mark
Altho I've had a pc for a while, I am very pc iliterate.
I have an XP emachine and at the top it says "Windows
Internet Explorer provided by Yahoo"
Yahoo recently suggested I update to IE 8 which I did.
But with IE 8 my Yahoo Bookmarks can't be added.
I'm not sure how this next part happened (pc iliterate=me)
but I removed the IE 8 by doing system restore, wanting to go back to what I had,
which I think was IE 7.
When I did this, I couldn't get online. So I undid my system restore so I could use
IE 8 to get online to try to change back to IE 7.
When I tried to download IE7 a message came up saying I can't
do that because I have ?? not sure exactly what it said,
but something to the effect that there was one already there.
I deleted IE8 again and had all the same results.
Does anyone know a way I can do this?
Also, am I allowed to have a second browser on
my Start menu so I can get online after deleting
IE 8?
Maybe this is very simple but I just don't know how
or maybe it's impossible and I'm stuck not being
able to use Yahoo Bookmarks which I really like.
Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thank you

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