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midwestman76

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    dumping IE
    « on: October 22, 2006, 04:06:15 PM »
    Hello great and mighty computer geeks ;D I went with patio and raptors advise and  installed firefox browser, seems much better by the way. went to microsoft site for directions on removing IE from my old 700mhz systemax system,running windows 2k, I neglected to add the uninstall with the service pk 4 first time round so I just started over again and reinstalled win2k but to my surprize the IE wasn't listed in the control panel programs section, in fact it read no programs listed! I've started over from scratch on this system 4 times now because of system crashes and what not over the past 2yrs. I've reinstalled all my programs ie comodo firewall,adware,spybot etc. I did not install the msn messenger for it just brought up the IE, so I just installed my msn mail application. opened a gmail account, and started my yahoo messenger back up. I did not upgrade the IE from 5.01 so I can still connect to microsoft for updates. at this point the IE only opens when I connect  to microsoft. but I'm wondering if  its still messing around in my system without my knowledge, by the way I love this place, any thoughts on this matter, am I ok just leaving things the way they are now?
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    Dusty



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    Re: dumping IE
    « Reply #1 on: October 22, 2006, 04:18:20 PM »
    Total removal of IE causes more pains than you would want...  It causes no problems if it's ignored...

    See here for a short comment...

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    Re: dumping IE
    « Reply #2 on: October 22, 2006, 04:22:13 PM »
    There's no need to remove IE as it is an integral part of WIndows, without it, you can't connect to Windows Update. And some programs use it as well; do install the latest updates for it, though, because should you ever use it you really don't want to be caught with IE 5.01.
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    midwestman76

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      Re: dumping IE
      « Reply #3 on: October 22, 2006, 05:02:33 PM »
      Dusty and Raptor-thanks for the quick reply, cool article Dusty! and I did update 5.01 however I'll go ahead and upgrade to IE 6, as long as I dont install msn messenger It doesn't pop up. as always thanks all for the good a straight advice, talk at ya later on the ole thinkpad with docking station a friend gave me. with no key to undock it of course :(
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      Re: dumping IE
      « Reply #4 on: October 22, 2006, 05:14:01 PM »
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      as long as I dont install msn messenger It doesn't pop up.

      What do you mean by that?
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      midwestman76

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        Re: dumping IE
        « Reply #5 on: October 22, 2006, 05:24:13 PM »
        what I ment by that is when I had the msn messenger, everytime I'd start it up my comodo personal firewall would start popping up with IE wanting to connect to the internet,sometimes 2 or 3 applications would want my ok to connect. If I denied any of them the msn messenger wouldn't open, which I why I didn't reinstall that messenger, don't need it anyway, I always used the yahoo messenger.
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        Re: dumping IE
        « Reply #6 on: October 22, 2006, 05:26:56 PM »
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        what I ment by that is when I had the msn messenger, everytime I'd start it up my comodo personal firewall would start popping up with IE wanting to connect to the internet,sometimes 2 or 3 applications would want my ok to connect. If I denied any of them the msn messenger wouldn't open, which I why I didn't reinstall that messenger, don't need it anyway, I always used the yahoo messenger.

        Well, the firewall will recognize a change in IE's executable and regard it as a new program, but why MSN Messenger comes with IE6SP1 I do not know...

        Is that a freeware firewall, Comodo?
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          Re: dumping IE
          « Reply #7 on: October 23, 2006, 11:57:34 AM »
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          Is that a freeware firewall, Comodo?
          Yeah, I have been trying it for about a month myself after I had problems with Sunbelt Kerio, except with a window that pops up too much when I run Avant Browser I havent had any problems with it personally....
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            Re: dumping IE
            « Reply #8 on: October 23, 2006, 02:39:05 PM »
            Incidentally, Yahoo messenger runs on top of IE. It won't work if IE is removed.
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