IErradicator?

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I read something about a program that could delete IE off my win 98 machine?
IErradicator? Has anyone tried this before?
Where can I download it?

I'm not online anymore so I don't need a browser installed.
(My college has a faster connection!)

dos-man

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Dos-Man said:
I read something about a program that could delete IE off my win 98 machine?
IErradicator? Has anyone tried this before?
Where can I download it?

I'm not online anymore so I don't need a browser installed.
(My college has a faster connection!)

dos-man
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http://ihost.it-mate.co.uk/users/test_username/files/ieradicator.zip

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Dos-Man scribebat:
I read something about a program that could delete IE off my win 98
machine? IErradicator? Has anyone tried this before?
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Yes, I used IEradicator before. It is a very useful program that
removes the Internet Explorer from you PC. Worked flawless, but there
are some programs that depend on the IE engine - you won't be able to
install those afterwards.
Where can I download it?
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http://www.pclite.com/ if I remember it correctly. If not, a search for
"IEradicator" should find the site.

bye,

Onno
 
I read something about a program that could delete IE off my win 98 machine?
IErradicator? Has anyone tried this before?
Where can I download it?

I'm not online anymore so I don't need a browser installed.
(My college has a faster connection!)

dos-man

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Author of PSassano's Legacy Pad text editor
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Just a word of caution.As pointed out by other posters IE is heavily
intergrated into the windows operating system and you may find more problems
than you expected for example many help files for programmes use html so you
wont be able to view them any more , plus you may find you get loads or
errors etc,which may get worse when you do a registry clean with a
cleaner.Personally id leave well alone and just dont use IE.Many people have
used ieradicator and been happy with the outcome , but many others havent
been so lucky.
me
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Dos-Man said:
I read something about a program that could delete IE off my win 98
machine? IErradicator? Has anyone tried this before?
Where can I download it?

I'm not online anymore so I don't need a browser installed.
(My college has a faster connection!)
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Do you mean...
1. That you will never, ever browse again?
2. That you will use the college's connection to browse?

In the case of #1, why bother even trying to remove IE? It and Windows
Explorer are tightly hooked together, why risk screwing up Windows when you
need only not use IE?

In the case of #2, it matters not what connection you use, you still need a
browser.

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http://www.litepc.com/download.html. You might want to try the
98Lite "preview", though; it claims to leave system HTML engine intact.
Dunno.
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It does. If you take out the HTML you can't get thumbnails in Win EX or
2xEplorer for that matter.
Also there are programs that won't run without IE installed. If a person
wanted to use such programs they could disable IE.
Personally, I would rip the bitch out. :)
 
In the case of #1, why bother even trying to remove IE? It and
Windows Explorer are tightly hooked together, why risk screwing up
Windows when you need only not use IE?
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There is no damage to Windows Explorer by using IEradicator.

I will point out - it does NOT remove the HTML engine. Onno is correct that
some programs which depend on IE will no longer run. However, I found that
I am perfectly capable of running MyIE2 with IE eradicated. The browser
reports as????

Internet Explorer 5.5

Aha! Since MyIE2 is merely a user interface and does not have it's own HTML
engine, how can it even function without IE, let alone report as IE 5.5?
Obviously, IE is not as eradicated as one would think!
 
It does. If you take out the HTML you can't get thumbnails
in Win EX or 2xEplorer for that matter.
Also there are programs that won't run without IE
installed. If a person wanted to use such programs they
could disable IE. Personally, I would rip the bitch out. :)
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Personally, I like the option in 98 Lite of installing &
uninstalling IE.
It fixes a lot of IE problems.
 
There is no damage to Windows Explorer by using IEradicator.

I will point out - it does NOT remove the HTML engine. Onno is correct that
some programs which depend on IE will no longer run. However, I found that
I am perfectly capable of running MyIE2 with IE eradicated. The browser
reports as????

Internet Explorer 5.5

Aha! Since MyIE2 is merely a user interface and does not have it's own HTML
engine, how can it even function without IE, let alone report as IE 5.5?
Obviously, IE is not as eradicated as one would think!
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I just tried MyIE2 and it doesn't behave the way you've described on
my Win ME PC. First, let me say that I've done a bit more than merely
use IERadicator. I've deleted several html rendering files, and a
folder or two that were associated with IE (I've forgotten the
details). I didn't want _any_ vestige of IE left if I could help it :)
Nor do I ever want any app on my PC that requires IE.

MyIE2 acts as a html page downloader on my PC. I get a window that
asks if I want to save a web page. If I answer "yes", my default
Mozilla pops up and renders the web page :) But that seems to be all
that I can do with MyIE2. To say that "it works" on my PC would be
very misleading since it doesn't work as advertised at all. In fact,
it's less than useless.


Art
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I've deleted several html rendering files, and a
folder or two that were associated with IE (I've forgotten the
details).
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In other words, you deleted files that IEradicator didn't, probably the
MSHTML files.

You can use 98Lite to do the same thing, but you are basically left with
something that looks like Win9x, but behaves more like Win3x.

There is supposed to be a way to force MyIE2 to use the Gecko HTML engine,
but I had no success. If someone knows how to do this, please explain how.
 
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In other words, you deleted files that IEradicator didn't, probably
the MSHTML files.

You can use 98Lite to do the same thing, but you are basically left
with something that looks like Win9x, but behaves more like Win3x.

There is supposed to be a way to force MyIE2 to use the Gecko HTML
engine, but I had no success. If someone knows how to do this, please
explain how.
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I've gotten it to work. Wasn't too hard.



Aaron (my email is not munged!)
 
Good! And thanks for sharing how you were able to do it too!
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Ditto.

I tried patching MyIE2 with the patch recommended by the program's creatir,
but the patch will never work. It always reports that MyIE2 is unpatchable.
 
dszady said:
Personally, I would rip the bitch out. :)
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My sediments, eggzackly!! The only thing I've ever tried that
demanded IE is eBay's proprietary "Turbo Lister". The damned thing
didn't work _anyway_ (eBay's primary claim to fame: _Nothing_ ever works
right out-of-the-box!), so...
 
Ditto.

I tried patching MyIE2 with the patch recommended by the program's
creatir, but the patch will never work. It always reports that MyIE2
is unpatchable.
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Unfortunately, I don't remember the details. I just following the
instructions and installed the mozilla activex control. I had mozilla 1.6
installed though, that might make the difference if you only had Firefox
(firebird then).



Aaron (my email is not munged!)
 
Do you mean...
1. That you will never, ever browse again?
2. That you will use the college's connection to browse?

In the case of #1, why bother even trying to remove IE? It and Windows
Explorer are tightly hooked together, why risk screwing up Windows when you
need only not use IE?

In the case of #2, it matters not what connection you use, you still need a
browser.
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He may need a browser, but that's no reason to keep Microsoft Internet
Exploiter. Before I migrated to Linux, the second thing I did with my new
XP box (the _first_ thing was to zap Outlook Express, aka Microsoft Worm
Gateway) was to install ZoneAlarm and tell it to block all Internet
access by MSIE. There are lots of good browsers out there. I like Opera,
which also has a Windows version.
 
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