remove IE8

Seems to be a DLL. I've had well over 50 crashes of IE8 because of this in two weeks. It's nearly daily now or more. I need to reload it.

mshtml.dll

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Source
Internet Explorer

Summary
Stopped working

Date
‎1/‎20/‎2010 2:52 AM

Status
Not reported

Description
Faulting Application Path: C:\Program Files (x86)\Internet Explorer\iexplore.exe

Problem signature
Problem Event Name: APPCRASH
Application Name: iexplore.exe
Application Version: 8.0.7600.16385
Application Timestamp: 4a5bc69e
Fault Module Name: mshtml.dll
Fault Module Version: 8.0.7600.16466
Fault Module Timestamp: 4b04f118
Exception Code: c0000005
Exception Offset: 001bc662
OS Version: 6.1.7600.2.0.0.768.3
Locale ID: 1033
Additional Information 1: 0a9e
Additional Information 2: 0a9e372d3b4ad19135b953a78882e789
Additional Information 3: 0a9e
Additional Information 4: 0a9e372d3b4ad19135b953a78882e789

It doesn't delete or uninstall it, but it does make it unavailable to users, which is just as good.

Mark

That's not the same thing. That's just like removing all the shortcuts to the program. It's still there, you've just made it harder to access. Same thing with Dango's post above. All that does is remove the Microsoft "IE" front end to the core rendering engine which cannot be removed from the OS.

The program cannot be removed, simple as that. To do so would be to completely lobotomize the OS, and probably render it non-functional. The best you can do is simply hide it, and make it less obvious a presence.

Why would you want to do that? Have you forgotten the year or two when there were almost weekly exploits of IE6 after MS left it to rot for about 5 years? Or how about what's been in the news lately, with some Chinese organization using a previously unknown IE flaw to break into people's computer systems and gain access to sensitive data?

As it stands, IE8 is the only one that offers even some small amount of protection from the exploit in the news lately. Where older versions of IE fail in such a way that you can exploit it, IE8 will just crash.

Then there's the fact that Microsoft lost it's bid to hijack web standards, and so now they're trying to play catchup as fast as they can. If you've ever seen a bald web developer, it's probably because they had to try and create a webpage that worked in both IE6 and other browsers. IE6's rendering engine was so horribly broken it's not even funny. It's support of web standards was spotty at best, seeming to pick and choose which parts of the standard it wanted to support. Half of that was implemented with the incorrect behavior. Think of it like trying to write a novel, in parallel, in both english and a sort of hillbilly dialect.

IE8 is the best version of IE out there, and while that may not be saying too much given the dog's breakfast IE6 was, it'd be downright stupid to intentionally expose yourself to all the risks associated with older versions of IE.

For one reason it becomes corrupt and has to be reinstalled to repair those corruptions. I've use IE8 since it was a BETA and it has never worked correctly for long before a reinstallation is needed. In fact I need to reinstall IE8 now, after only a month on a new PC. So dependencies or not, I'll need to take the risk of removing it. I'd switch to another browser in a minute, security risks or not, if I could find one my IP service would allow. (Again just another example of why partnerships between the "player" in computing are in "no way", a bonus to consumers and restrict and control what we can and can not do.) Nothing has cause this PC user more grief then the IEs, nothing!

Sounds like you have other issues if things are becoming corrupted that quickly. That's excessive, even for IE.

Better then real ones I guess till my HD files up with them

A clean uninstall can be done by editing it out of the registry but I still have no idea what be dependent on it, so God knows what will happen. Yes, I know I would need to download a new version to the HD before removing it, install it off line then "try" to connect.

but found out my ISP did allow FireFox so loaded that instead and I'm very happy with it and happy to be free of IE8. Very happy!

If IE8 is the best version out there, then why does jwhceh13 want to get rid of it by uninstalling it? I was just suggesting a good way for jwhceh13 to remove IE8. And besides, there's another way to remove IE8. You can go into the main drive that contains IE8 and just delete it from the Program Files folder.

You can't do that, because Windows is Windows and will probably find a way to restore it. The other thing is that that solves the executable problem. If you were talking Mac, that would work perfectly, but Windows is nice enough to have the registry, so that's not getting rid of it.

Just let the EU or US sue Microsoft again into making them allow FULL removal of Internet Explorer.

Plus, IE is still tied into the operating system, removing it basically disables HTML browsing inside of Windows. There may be a way to do it with the Gecko rendering engine, but it still wouldn't render right.

Like I said, it's the best IE out there, but that's not really saying much. It lags behind other browsers to such a significant degree in almost every area, if it didn't come bundled with Windows no one would ever use it. Generally speaking, no one ever did until Microsoft started bundling IE4 with Win98. They actually started earlier with some little known releases of Win95 and IE3, but Win98 + IE4 is what kicked off the big anti-trust lawsuit (of which Microsoft was found guilty), and finally propelled IE into its dominate position. Until then, it barely made a dent in Netscape's market share.

And your suggestion, which was already mentioned, doesn't actually remove IE. That just removes the front end program most people associate as being IE, but it really only represents a control program. It's maybe 10% of the overall program. You cannot remove IE and leave Windows in a usable state, Microsoft has seen to that. They've been steadily working it further and further into the core of the OS for over the last decade. It started with the sunset years of Win95, then Win98, it became a prerequisite to NT4 service packs which caught some in a vicious cycle of needing IE to install a service pack and needing a service pack to install IE. WinMe and 2000 both continued the trend, as did XP, Vista, and 7. Each successive release has seen IE worked ever deeper into the OS. By today, Windows Explorer and Internet Explorer are largely one and the same.

Well, you are right, that Microsoft screwed us all over and made IE part of the operating system. I see the only way of getting rid of it is ignoring it and finding a way for it to run at the lowest level of credentials, and then blocking off iexplore.exe through Windows. The only other solutions to not have IE and a stable operating system are Mac and Linux. Or just import a European copy.

just ignore IE8... I have tried to uninstall it and I was forced to reinstall windows again.. it seems that are some DLLs that are still active after you will uninstall IE and at the start-up time will always received an error message... sometimes need to restart windows to close it... the best way to uninstall is to IGNORE

It was not available on the IE home page. It might be hiding around M$ somewhere but to date it is undiscovered. If it where available half this battle would be won. For now we wait.

Thanks for the information.

You do know that sometimes PC issues evolve over time? Works OK for awhile then begins to erode. Tell us if things change.

Just scroll to top of this same CNet page, click the "Downloads" tab. When that page comes up, Type IE8 in the search bar. It is there!

Remember we're talking about Window 7 x86 and x64 bit versions not Vista and/or XP.

These are all the downloads for Internet Explorer 8 on the M$ web site for Windows 7.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/en/results.aspx?pocId=&freetext=Windows%20Internet%20Explorer%208%20for%20Windows%207&DisplayLang=en

nor is it available here:

See "Select your Operating System "

http://www.microsoft.com/windows/internet-explorer/worldwide-sites.aspx

Ok I checked. MSFT does not list IE8 For W7. Since mine is running, I won't try the Vista version. I did try a few Vista drivers while running the RC W7 But I know drivers is different than Application.