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(YouTube video here) So now that new Edge is out you may ask yourself … “Self? Is it wise to keep Internet Explorer 11 on my Windows 10?” Some peopl
[See the full post at: Tasks for the weekend May 1, 2021 – How to remove IE]
Susan Bradley Patch Lady/Prudent patcher
Your navigation to remove Internet Explorer doesn’t work for me (Windows 10 Home 64bit 20H2 with april’s patches). IE doesn’t show. In fact no apps at all show up.
I have to go to Control Panel > Programs and Features > Turn Windows features on or off > Untick Internet Explorer 11 . Here all other Windows feature apps are shown too, so watch where you (un)tick!
From main blog:
So now that new Edge is out you may ask yourself … “Self? Is it wise to keep Internet Explorer 11 on my Windows 10?”
Don’t ask yourself this, is my advice! carry on doing something else.
If MSFT deem IE to be completely unsafe they would have removed it in a Cumulative Update by now or are currently in the process of doing so. Jumping the gun, you may get shot!
IF they are considering an integral system shift, let them decide. There are too many conotations/ unkown factors in doing this that encompass many different scenarios.
Instead, ask yourself this..‘what will break if I remove IE and what are the ramifications in doing so?’ security? functionality? And what of the dll’s associated that are integral to the system functionality? what other 3rd party critical software will be affected?
I’d leave this in situ until MSFT decide, NOT a blog post that has the potential to botch up your system. After all, what is this going to achieve? miniscule freed storage space, redundancy in extraneous patches already applied over many years.
I agree completely. Don’t do this.
If dependence on IE’s functionality had been completely fetteted out of the Operating System, Microsoft would have removed it already. People have had problems in the past just disabling it in “Turn Windows features on or off.”
And it’s not only the OS, it’s third-party application dependence on its functionality. For example, the check reader for the bank my HomeOwner Assn. uses still requires IE11.
I don’t understand why something like this gets put on the main page of the Blog.
Unless maybe it’s a way to get people’s reactions. (Feedback for Microsoft? They read the quizzes and polls) It could really mess up a non-techie User who just follows the instructions and doesn’t understand the possible implications.
Eventually, when everything works correctly without it, Microsoft will remove it from the OS. Until then, my recommendation would be to leave it be.
Sorry, but the connecting software does not work in this case. It requires other settings as well. It’s not just the browser part, but the interconnecting software as well.
A common misunderstanding is that IE has never been “inert code”, not even now.
There are applications that explicitly call IE (rather than the system’s default browser) to do HTML rendering, and it’s a guess that some of that is where IE is necessary to execute ActiveX scripting.
Even though I have never voluntarily used IE, I’ve found it interesting that cleanup tools such as CCleaner often report the presence of cookies and cache content used by IE.
I would be very hesitant to remove IE, unless I am *very* sure that there is nothing on my system that uses it surreptitiously, and I’m not sure I would even trust IE Mode in Edge.
In the same way that we still see production systems running Windows 7, XP, Win 2000 and even Win 9x and DOS, because it’s not feasible to upgrade applications that depend on those versions, I’m going to suggest that it’s going to be a very long time before Microsoft breaks stuff that requires IE (or ActiveX) by removing them entirely from Windows.
But your knowledge, methods, and your systems are nowhere near the standards that apply to most of the Users here.
I disabled IE many months ago via “Turn Windows features on or off”. After running through the steps in the OP, no “Uninstall” was presented.
I’ve been waiting for that. Most obvious is the fact that your image is not taken from my PC.
I disabled IE many months ago via “Turn Windows features on or off”. After running through the steps in the OP, no “Uninstall” was presented.
It stands to reason that if an app is not installed, there would be no “Uninstall” button for that app.
In the intervening months since I turned off IE 11, I presume in one (or more) of the many Windows Updates (and yes, I also install all the “Preview” updates, too) that have been installed, Windows gutted IE 11 in the registry.
The folders and files were left in “Program Files” and “Program Files (x86)”, but the functionality was removed from the system. The only thing I did today was to delete those folders and files; IE 11 was already dead.
At least, I have not stumbled across a use case where subscription Quicken complained about the lack of IE11
Who wants to subscribe to cloud software ? I don’t. If needed I want to pay once and install/use.
Internet Explorer 11 is not just an obsolete, antiquated, unsafe web Browser, it also is a key component that is integrated and very tightly interlaced into Windows. That ‘part’ users don’t see because they don’t need to.’
When the terms ‘Uninstall’ or ‘Disable’ Internet Explorer 11 are being used, I believe it is just the IE11 web interface, controls and its ability to open/associate Web Links/URLs to and with IE that is being talked about.
Re Quickbooks, I don’t use it, but I think it is just the Browser part that is needed for it to work.
Quickbooks, also others, will need to adapt and adapt soon to current times as IE (the Browser interface that QB is dependant on) is being made very easy to remove from Windows 10 and many are doing so for security reasons as well as it being just a lousy Browser in comparison to its modern-day counterparts.
Most know IE has been unsafe for years and banks and financial institutions are very, very aware of what has gone on in the past and wouldn’t recommend using IE anyway. They have their own security to worry about as well as potential compensation payments if customers lawyer’s (customers with accounts that have been hacked/cleaned out) can prove that Internet Explorer was a fundamental factor in the theft/fraud/etc cases that are brought before the courts when banks/financial institutions refuse to compensate their customers because of their negligence.
So now that new Edge is out you may ask yourself … “Self? Is it wise to keep Internet Explorer 11 on my Windows 10?”
Perhaps a different question might have been more appropriate?
So now that new Edge is out and with so many other secure Browsers available to use, you may ask yourself … “Self? With the exception of known programs that might rely on IE 11, is it necessary to keep IE 11, as a Browser, on my Windows 10 when I have or can have so many more secure, supported Browsers to use?”
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