Any program that called IE directly, though, would bring it right up, as if the block was not there, and a lot of programs did do that, since IE was virtually guaranteed to be on all Windows systems, and would render everything in a known (but nonstandard) way. I already had something else set as the default browser, so anything that simply called the default already pulled up Mozilla or Firefox (I do not remember which I was using at the time). How to download and install Internet Explorer on a PC/Laptop with Windows 11,10,8 & 7 (32 Bit. It was a deeply cynical ploy that MS engaged in in order to corner the browser market, and now that IE is all but dead and MS is an also-ran in the browser market, Windows users are still paying the price for Microsoft’s anticompetitive plot, in terms of legacy technical debt.Īfter the eventual settlement between the US government and MS, I tried the IE blocking thing in XP, and it hardly had any effect at all. Internet Explorer Windows 7 Review Software Information. It’s better just to have an OS that does not have a browser embedded so deeply. That thought was what led me to abandon the practice. Of course, that doesn’t mean that the alternate copies of files (possibly older, less up-to-date ones) in WinSxS were not quietly being used. I did have to restore ieproxy.dll to get things to work okay, if I recall, but otherwise, I never noticed it was gone.
After disabling IE in the Windows 7 settings way back when, I tried forcibly removing the Internet Explorer directories from \Program Files and Program Files (x86) when I ran Windows 7, along with the SFC backups (otherwise they would just come right back).
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