IEradicator for XP?

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I'd like to remove Internet Explorer from my computer. Does anyone
know of a programme similar to IEradicator which will work with
Windows XP?
 
I'd like to remove Internet Explorer from my computer. Does anyone
know of a programme similar to IEradicator which will work with
Windows XP?
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No. Just set security to max in all zones (make sure all scripting and
activex are disabled). Use a Moz based browser and install a good
firewall since it's impractical with XP to shut down all the services
and thus close all internet ports. Never go on line without a active
firewall. And keep up with both OS and IE patches.


Art
http://www.epix.net/~artnpeg
 
Randy said:
I'd like to remove Internet Explorer from my computer. Does anyone
know of a programme similar to IEradicator which will work with
Windows XP?
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Yes there is a program that will remove IE from XP, but it's not
freeware. From the makers of IEradicator.
 
I'd like to remove Internet Explorer from my computer. Does anyone
know of a programme similar to IEradicator which will work with
Windows XP?
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It sounds like a joke but... IEradicator doesn't eradicate IE.

One year ago I "eradicated" IE with IEradicator (Win2000 SP1) but
CrazyBrowser still worked, and HTML view in Calypso worked aswell, so
IE was still there.

Y.M.
 
It sounds like a joke but... IEradicator doesn't eradicate IE.

One year ago I "eradicated" IE with IEradicator (Win2000 SP1) but
CrazyBrowser still worked, and HTML view in Calypso worked aswell, so
IE was still there.
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They claim it works with sp1. I know it works with W9X/ME as they
claim.


Art
http://www.epix.net/~artnpeg
 
WingNut said:
XPlite removes IE and OE as well as many other items. At this link:
http://www.litepc.com/xplite.html
if you look on the right hand side of the page at the list of items
XPlite can remove you will see that IE is listed. I use XPlite with
great success.
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I haven't used the program, but reading everything in that page indicates
that the only thing being offered, re IE eradication, comes down to removing
the iexplore.exe and its folder. Trivial.* And that which is a far cry from
removing the underlying MSIE system components.

.. . .

(* Other than the convenience their program appears to offer for working
around the annoying WFP scheme.)
 
They claim it works with sp1. I know it works with W9X/ME as they
claim.
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I guarantee you it works with ME. I used to use Microsoft Works and if I
try to run it now, it begs for IE. Not there.

I can still use Web content on my desktop, and that seems to use one little
file: Windows>Application Data>Microsoft>Internet Explorer>desktop.htt. If
I delete or rename this file, no more wallpaper.

I suspect the computer can use the HTML properties of Windows Explorer to
serve certain properties of IE.
 
Trying to get a word in edge-wise "omega" wrote in
On your system, what happens when you type http:\\www.website.com into
the address bar of Windows Explorer?
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What's supposed to happen? I got rid of - I hope - IE and all it's
remnants.
(Win981st)
 
I guarantee you it works with ME. I used to use Microsoft Works and if I
try to run it now, it begs for IE. Not there.

I can still use Web content on my desktop, and that seems to use one little
file: Windows>Application Data>Microsoft>Internet Explorer>desktop.htt. If
I delete or rename this file, no more wallpaper.

I suspect the computer can use the HTML properties of Windows Explorer to
serve certain properties of IE.
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Internet Explorer seemed to disappear (no icons, no exe) but I was
able to surf the internet using CrazyBrowser (that is not a real
browser but a shell for IE like MyIE2 or Avant), so I think that the
"dangerous" part of IE is still in the system.

I couldn't find "peace of mind" using IEradicator... IMHO it is
useless.

Y.M.
 
Trying to get a word in edge-wise "Yo Mismo" wrote in
Internet Explorer seemed to disappear (no icons, no exe) but I was
able to surf the internet using CrazyBrowser (that is not a real
browser but a shell for IE like MyIE2 or Avant), so I think that the
"dangerous" part of IE is still in the system.

I couldn't find "peace of mind" using IEradicator... IMHO it is
useless.
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Sorry. Not useless if you have 98.
 
Obviously, you did not read on the page:

http://www.litepc.com/ieradicator.html
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Oops!! You are right and now there is a new enhanced "a" version:

http://www.litepc.com/release_notes/ieradicator.txt

-----------------------------------------------------------------
WHAT IS NEW?

20-Oct-2003

IEradicator2001 vs IEradicator2001a

IEradicator2001a has the added function of removing the web view
integration from the Explorer Desktop environment.

Specifically IEradicator2001a removes:
* The Sidebar file summaries
* Thumbnail image preview in the sidebar
* Custom graphics for individual folders
* web view.

IEradicator2001 leaves the "enhanced" shell features in place and
just takes out the browser."
------------------------------------------------------------------

As I said before, I tried it about a year ago, so it seems that it
was the old version. Sorry.

The new version looks promising. I'll try it as soon as possible.
Thank you... and sorry again.

Y.M.
 
dszady said:
Trying to get a word in edge-wise "omega" wrote in

What's supposed to happen? I got rid of - I hope - IE and all it's
remnants.
(Win981st)
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In an unaltered system, from Windows Explorer, you can browse online web
sites... (sidenote: MSIE's FTP folders view feature is pretty trippy).

Wingnut has answered that the XP $version offered by this company did a
removal to the extent that my simple test for detection of MSIE, ended
at results of "clean." The http:\\ did not cause to manifest the MSIE
flipside of W Explorer view.

I am looking at the company's web site, and see that IEradicator, the
freeware product for 9x, does not propose to remove the underlying MSIE
components. Only their pay product for 9x offers that...

http://www.litepc.com/98micro.html

<pay version.quote>
: 98micro completely removes all traces of the MS HTML engine (shdocvw.dll,
: and mshtml.dll). You will not have access to any of the proprietary
: Microsoft compressed help files, and you will not be able to run programs
: that rely on the MS HTML rendering engine [...]
</pay version.quote>

So, if you are still using programs that host the MSIE browser control,
"security" would not be any better after IEradicator, true? Actually,
less so, if you don't still have the IE "internet properties" setting to
access...but surely you must?

I'm supposing now, it might be that explorer.exe perhaps could be in this
role of hosting the MS HTML engine (unless that particular situation were
notably more involved than this way of view). And that the IE eradicator
disables that hosting functionality? Follows the question: is that even
desirable, disabling that feature? On machines that are not public or
company systems, where you want to restrict what users can do?

I can't see that this program is not really intended to be for purpose of
inet security, right? Yet instead for an area of cleanup...all that extra &
oft-unneeded debris that a Windows install crowds in there, related to
IE\OE\etc accessories.

I don't have experience with any of the programs/scripts by litepc.com.
Still have not got around to what I've been planning: to log what the
freeware IE Eradicator does actually change, in the way of reg entries,
and any system files, and what the consequence appears to be. Backing
up and running a log wouldn't take all that long. Analysis, that's a
different matter...
 
Sorry. Not useless if you have 98.
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All I can say is this: my ME system crashed several times a day. I used
IEradicator and the crashes are now a thing of the past. My computer has
crashed only once in the past six months, and that was the other day when I
tried the trial version of WillowMEDIA. (BTW, the version that SOS posted
works just fine.)

Programs I used to use that require IE will no longer run. Obviously, IE is
gone.

Yes, there may still be an HTML engine built into Windows that allows me to
use wallpaper on my desktop. But IE and it's baggage have checked out.

There is no security risk that I can identify if IE is not present. I use
other browsers now and I am happy. The crashes were what made me unhappy,
and they are gone. There has to be a corellation with ditching IE and the
disappearance of crashes.
 
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