Actually I don't think you can completely remove IE from your system. There have been huge lawsuits over that but Microsoft claims it is an integral part of the system and cannot be removed.
With WinXP+ you can hide the IE desktop Icon and make another browser the default but you can't remove IE. Yes if you want to download IE 7 (It's a big improvement over IE 6 so I recommend you do that) it first gets a very small executable that I believe determines what parts of IE you need to download for your particular system and downloads only what you need. That works, and it minimizes the amount of stuff you need to download. Why is that a problem?
73, Rich - W3ZJ
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At 08:46 AM 8/31/2007, you wrote:
Came right up without the error. Hmmmm might it be because I am NOT using
IE at all? I have Firefox on the computer. Took IE off at one point,
because It wasnt acting right, and when I try to put it back on, I hit up
against the stupid way they want to upload to me, with a small program on
the computer that then reaches out and downloads the rest of it. It appears
you have to have IE in order to get IE. Makes a lot of sense!! Even when I
try to activate Firefox, then the setup, it seems to start, then just sits
there without ever having done much, and have left it an hour or more to no
affect. Have been trying to find a separate full copy of IE, but eerywhere
I look it just want to upload the setup files, and that fails every time I
try to use it. Using Win2000Pro here, and have tried IE5 and 6 both. If I
misremember, 6 is for XP?
Danny
