Why Cant I Uninstall Ie6?

Rob · February 8, 2004

hi all - my IE is balls at the mo so going to reinstall it - but cant see anywhere to do so - nothing in " add remove progs or windows components" only option is to remove the icon.

help pls

Rodders_UK · February 8, 2004

just re-run the install

Risky3301 · February 8, 2004

Sorry to be the bearer of bad news, Internet Explorer is inbeded inside windows regardless of what version you have so you can't uninstall it only update.

I spoke direct with mircosoft about it and they weren't much help, The only option was to force install win98 to try and go back to Version 5.5, it didn't work so I reformated my hard drive and started again

If do go for a force install, this overwrites all pervious update or so microsoft recon, make sure you back-up the files you want before you try and reinstall windows.

Rob · February 8, 2004

just re-run the install

nope that doesnt work - just says something like " newer version installed can not continue" i just used the download from MS.

prob i have is that sometimes when i go to access sites eg yahoo news ie just closes.

ColinBarber · February 8, 2004

Try clearing all temp. internet files. Also download and install the latest service pack for your version of IE

aido · February 8, 2004

What version did you download from the MS site? What version is installed if you do Help - About?

What OS are you on?

If it's not 2000 or XP then you can uninstall IE with this:

http://www.litepc.com/ieradicator.html

That should then leave you in a position to reinstall.

Have you tried disabling any personal firewall, popup blocking or antivirus browser integration to see if it's one of those that is causing the problem?