getting rid of ie

airbornflghtairbornflght Houston, TX Icrontian
edited January 2006 in Science & Tech
okay, i just put opera on my computer, and im loving it, but how do you get ie off, I switched opera over to the default browser and all, but my computer still opens some things in ie.

like i have wamp installed as a test php/MySQL server, and when I do anything with it, it runs it through ie. things it opens are the local host, myadmin and others.

driving me nuts.

Comments

  • sfleurietsfleuriet Texas New
    edited January 2006
    Change Opera to your default browser. I don't think you can completely take IE out, but you can sort of take it out by going to Control Panel > Add/Remove > Add/Remove Windows Components > Uncheck IE then hit Next.
  • GrayFoxGrayFox /dev/urandom Member
    edited January 2006
    You can't uninstall ie its an intergrated part of the operating system and cannot be removed. (Atempting to causes windows to bsod unless you replaced the shell with the nt4 shell and disable windows file protection.)
  • LeonardoLeonardo Wake up and smell the glaciers Eagle River, Alaska Icrontian
    edited January 2006
    There's no reason to get rid of IE. It doesn't harm anything simply residing in your hard drive. Besides, unless things have changed and I didn't hear, you can't do Windows Updates through Microsoft with browsers other than IE.
  • sfleurietsfleuriet Texas New
    edited January 2006
    Leonardo wrote:
    There's no reason to get rid of IE. It doesn't harm anything simply residing in your hard drive. Besides, unless things have changed and I didn't hear, you can't do Windows Updates through Microsoft with browsers other than IE.
    Yep that's why I keep it. Launchcast+ and Windows Update
    update.microsoft.com wrote:
    To use this site, you must be running Microsoft Internet Explorer 5 or later.
  • fingerflingerfingerflinger Ohio
    edited January 2006
    One time I think that I got as close possible to getting rid of IE, but as everybody has already said, there's not really any point except to defy Microsoft. I ended up reinstalling it after a couple months anyways, which was quite a hassle.
  • MadballMadball Fort Benton, MT
    edited January 2006
    A handful of sites will not work with Opera. As a loyal and dedicated Opera user, this is very frustrating.
  • airbornflghtairbornflght Houston, TX Icrontian
    edited January 2006
    yeh...wasnt really wanting to get rid of ie, just beat it down and lock it in the closet. a few things, such as wamp, open in ie still. not a big deal, just annoys me.
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