How to Uninstall Internet Explorer from Windows ?

Internet Explorer 10 is the latest version of Internet Explorer which is an inbuilt app in Windows 8. Internet explorer is the most famous and the widely used Browser throughout the world. But new browsers such as Google Chrome are posing a great challenge and many people may not feel comfortable with Internet Explorer. So here’s a tutorial as to how to uninstall Internet explorer.

Sometimes Internet Explorer gets attacked by viruses and may malfunction. In that case all you can do is to disable/uninstall Internet Explorer and scan your System for Viruses.

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Internet Explorer cannot be uninstalled or removed directly. So we will disable it so that it won’t show up on the Windows Start-up Screen or the task bar or for that matter anywhere on the Windows.


How to uninstall Internet Explorer
The following Steps are for all Windows including Windows XP, Vista, 7 and Windows 8.

1. Open Control Panel and go to Add/Remove Programs and then on the left hand side you will see an option saying “Turn Windows feature on or off”. Click on that.

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1. Click on Start Button and go to Run. Or directly open run by pressing Windows + R buttons together. Now type in there appwiz.cpl and press Enter. This will open the Add/Remove Programs Window. Now on the left hand side click on the option saying “Turn Windows feature on or off”.
How to Uninstall Internet Explorer
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2. Now a Window will open with several Program Names and a tick in front of some and no tick in front of others. Those features which are enabled will have a tick in front of them and those which are not enabled will not have a tick in the check-box Now here find Internet Explorer and remove the tick from the check-box in front of Internet Explorer. The Computer will ask you if you really want to disable Internet Explorer. Click on Yes.
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3. Now click on OK. And let Window do its work. After a minute or two Internet Explorer will be Disabled and the Windows may ask you to restart the Computer. Voila After restarting your PC Internet Explorer would have been removed from your Computer.

Hope that this tutorial helped you to Uninstall Internet Explorer. Do comment and let me know if you faced any problem in any of the steps above. Also comment if you know any other way to Uninstall Internet Explorer. Comments are always welcome. Happy Browsing… :)