[We meet again! <wink>]
Where to begin?
=> How to uninstall or remove Internet Explorer 8
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/957700
=> About WinXP SP3 and IE7 and/or IE8
If you installed IE7 or IE8 and then installed WinXP SP3, you will not be
able to uninstall the IE upgrade(s) without having first uninstalled WinXP
SP3.
Reference:
http://blogs.msdn.com/ie/archive/2008/05/05/ie-and-xpsp3.aspx
=> About Automatic Updates (AU) and IE8:
If AU is set to the default "Automatic" or the "Download but Notify"
configuration, AU will download IE8 automatically but IE8 will NOT install
without user-approval.
If AU is set to the "Notify Only" configuration, IE8 will neither download
nor install w/out user-approval.
NB: This is /exactly/ what happened when IE7 was released to Windows Update
a few years ago.
References:
IE8 Installation: the User is in Control
http://blogs.msdn.com/ie/archive/2009/05/01/ie8-installation-the-user-is-in-control.aspx
Prepare for Automatic Update distribution of IE8
http://blogs.msdn.com/ie/archive/2009/04/10/prepare-for-automatic-update-distribution-of-ie8.aspx
=> Those with IE7- and/or IE8-specific questions or comments can post to and
seek support in IE General newsgroup:
microsoft.public.internetexplorer.general
On the web:
http://www.microsoft.com/communitie...?dg=microsoft.public.internetexplorer.general
In your newsreader:
news://msnews.microsoft.com/microsoft.public.internetexplorer.general
--
~Robear Dyer (PA Bear)
MS MVP-IE, Mail, Security, Windows Client - since 2002
This ISN'T a request for specific information about how to get back to IE6
after having installed IE7 or IE8. Rather, I'd like some sense of: a) is
it
possible?; b) is it relatively painless. "It" being getting back to IE6.
I'm running xp sp3 and recently received an automatic update from MS that
would have installed IE8; fortunately, I asked for custom install, which
told me it was about to install IE8. Seems like that is a task that should
not be done "automatically"!
