Comments on: How To Uninstall IE8 Beta 2

By: Kay Olson

Kay Olson — Sat, 05 Sep 2009 22:33:34 +0000

I did go to oldversion and download 7 – when I went to the other link, it specified IE8 for SP2 and I have SP3 on all machines-

Thanks!

By: Kyle

Kyle — Sat, 05 Sep 2009 10:22:38 +0000

@Kay Olson - Actually you can download IE7 from the link in my previous answer. Under the download button for IE8, you can select you OS and click GO to download IE7. The oldversion website also has downloads of older IE versions.

By: Kay Olson

Kay Olson — Sat, 05 Sep 2009 09:52:46 +0000

I never had IE7 on that machine, just IE6. As a designer, I test all sites in IE6, 7 and 8 because all have their quirks.

My solution was the clue from Perfect Uninstaller which gave the date of the IE8 install and go back to the checkpoint before it was installed. For some reason, I had no difficulty installing IE8 over IE7 in a laptop. Now if I could find IE7 some where, I’d try installing that on one of the machines that has IE6 – any clue as to where to find it since all the links point to IE8 now?

By: Kyle

Kyle — Sat, 05 Sep 2009 01:37:36 +0000

@Kay Olson - Have you tried simply downloading IE7 again and installing that? If you do not want to reinstall Windows, you could also consider using Virtual PC and run IE6 or IE7 in that of course.

By: Kay Olson

Kay Olson — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 19:21:01 +0000

I have tried everything to remove IE8 from a computer I use as a backup. After investigating numerous articles, I determined that IE8 was installed after SP3. What I have is a garbage looking IE8 onscreen that does nothing except hang when I try to get anything done on the menu.

I tried manually uninstalling, per your directions. I located spuninst.exe with no trouble. After it started running and I chose yes after the message “The following programs wer installed onn your computer after IE6, If….. After that it claimed it could not find numerous files, starting with ieeula.chm, etc.

This is extremely frustrating. I do not use IE for my personal browser – I use it only to check sites that I design, so of all the crucials, at this point IE 6, which remains horrid, is something I need.

Worse, when I try to remove IE8 in any way and get stuck at the point I mentioned, I am unable to access the computer on my network. The only way I can restore the system to an earlier point is to run System Restore in Safe Mode.

Should I just give up and have somebody wipe the hard drive clean and start all over?

By: Nitin Bobade

Nitin Bobade — Sat, 25 Jul 2009 16:49:08 +0000

thanks a lot dude

This was perfect. I had IE8 beta 1 that was causing a lot of problems at work during our site testing – it had to go!

By: Kyle

Kyle — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 15:19:59 +0000

@chanie – Sorry, can’t email you as you did not leave your email address.
But from the sounds of it there is something structurally wrong with the internet or network configuration on your PC. Try running “sfc /scannow” in a command prompt window. This needs admin privileges, and it will check and recover your system files. This might fix the issue.
But otherwise, it should really be possible to install any other browser from a USB stick or CD/DVD.

Further you might have a look at: http://www.pcauthorities.com/pc-errors/how-to-troubleshoot-internet-explorer-errors

Kyle

By: chanie

chanie — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 03:44:06 +0000

I made a HUGE mistake and installed IE8- then I realized that it was the version that my school just got and that I hated. So I tried living with it, and ended up uninstalling it. Like any smart person, I made sure my Firefox (2.0.0) was working. It was- slightly slowly as usual, but definitely working. I uninstalled IE8- guess what? Neither IE7 NOR Firefox work!

I read some stuff online and decided to uninstall IE7, planning to reinstall 6, and then upgrade again to 7. What happened was that IE6- ISN’T there, like I thought it would be- and Firefox STILL doesn’t work.

I’m connected to the net, and googletalk works, but I can’t open a browser.
I have Windows XP, SP3.

Any suggestions? I tried downloading the thing from petri.com, where you download a browser for a different computer- didn’t work. Tried downloading Mozilla and saving it on a disk to transfer- didn’t work. Any ideas? I need this thing for work…and I’m stuck!

Thanks!
P.S.- If you don’t mind- email me any suggestions you have. Thanks!

By: Kyle

Kyle — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 20:39:45 +0000

@Ezihara – You do have the Windows folder? Coz you can actually change that on Windows installation. And did you make sure the hidden folders are shown?

It could also be that IE8 is installed as an update. In the Add/Remove programs option of the Control Panel, make sure “Show updates” is checked.

Kyle

By: Ezihara

Ezihara — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 15:27:26 +0000

I don’t have that IE8 folder!!!