Removing IE cripples Windows. That's a bad idea , since you win nothing with it, except a very minor bit of disc space.
So see if you can download IE 8 and install that. If not, the work around is to copy/paste that link into the address bar of Firefox. Quite doable, I'd say.
Kees
I switched to Firefox as my browser. I removed internet explorer. I'm using windows xp.
I can no longer select a link in my email that will connect me to the intended page.
Any suggestions outside of going back to a restore date.

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