Comments on: How To Uninstall IE8 Beta 2

By: Rod

Rod — Tue, 15 Feb 2011 16:22:00 +0000

I tried running the IE8 uninstall wizard and when it began it stopped naming hundreds of files it couldnt copy. I have XP sp3 and cant install or remove IE8

By: Gary Moore

Gary Moore — Thu, 23 Dec 2010 21:48:54 +0000

Tried your directions for the ie8 uninstall. Ran the
spuninst.exe file didn’t work ie8 still here. Tried reinstalling ie7, but says ie8 still there , rebooted,
ran registry fixers, etc. still there! Any more ideas?
I was told there are 2 registry entrys that can be removed with regedit, that will let you reinstall ir7, but have not been able to find them.

Thanks Gary Moore

By: xander charlish

xander charlish — Sat, 25 Sep 2010 15:25:55 +0000

IE8 WINDOWS XP VISTA 7 2K

By: serviced offices

serviced offices — Fri, 03 Sep 2010 11:41:27 +0000

I have been trying to find how to uninstal IE8 for a while, have really not got on well with this. Will be pleased to give your advice a go.

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!