Surprisingly, you can’t remove it with the A dd or Delete Programs utility. You can, of course, launch Internet Explorer one last time for the memories, but it won’t take more than a few seconds to remember why you’re not using it as your primary browser anymore! Please ensure you have a full backup, just in case, and proceed with caution. WARNING: A few readers have reported strange and unintended consequences from removing Internet Explorer on their older PC systems. If you don’t yet have Edge on your computer, definitely grab a copy and install it soonest. Notice that a search for IE returned Microsoft Edge as the #1 result. Let’s get to it! You can confirm it’s still on your PC by searching for “Internet Explorer”: Still, it’s a good idea to eradicate Internet Explorer from your PC to ensure that it’s never launched and potentially putting your system at risk! HOW TO DELETE INTERNET EXPLORER 11Īnd so, decades after its launch, the time has come to axe MSIE from your computer. Particularly when you consider that Internet Explorer has been an option for Web browsing on a PC for twenty-seven years! Still a year from the date of me writing this article, but in Internet terms, that’s not such a long time after all. Now Microsoft says on its Web site that “Internet Explorer 11 desktop application will go out of support and be retired on June 15, 2022”. Microsoft Edge was first introduced in 2015, if you’re keeping track! After years of abuse, Microsoft’s development team finally had the bright idea of building a new Web browser – Microsoft Edge – atop Chromium, the open-source browser that also powers Google Chrome. This dragged on for years, even as more and more Web sites said “Best viewed with” and explicitly omitted Internet Explorer from the list. Originally one of the very first Web browsers (it was introduced in August 1995), it was never quite in sync with its features when compared to other choices like Opera, NCSA Mosaic, and especially Netscape Navigator. There are few applications that have proven more of a bane to designers and developers over the years than Internet Explorer.

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