The following sections will enable computer users who are willing to uninstall or downgrade the currently using Internet Explorer from the respective Windows operating systems.
Section 1: How to properly accomplish the task on a Windows XP SP3 computer?
- Logged on to your currently running XP system, you then should save and close any sensitive data while you're running your IE 8 browser including online bank and other personal stuff.
- If you're using the newly upgraded IE 8, just like the one below. You hit the option "Ask me later" on the "Set Up Windows Internet Explorer 8" window.
- Then you click the expand menu next the Help button; scroll down the menu below and enter the "About Internet Explorer" entry on it to ensure that the IE 8 has been installed or updated successfully.
- If the express installation of IE 8 was complete with success, you then click OK on the following About Internet Explorer info box.
- You then save and close all the using tabs in your running IE 8 program such as the following "Your browser has been upgraded".
- Then you may click Close all tabs on the following Internet Explorer alert.
- Now, you click start and Control Panel on the menu.
- Click Add or Remove Programs then.
- Highlight or locate the following Windows Internet Explorer 8 project and click the Remove button next to it.
- You then click on the Next > button on the following Windows Internet Explorer 8 Removal Wizard.
- You have to wait a while when you see the following "Inspecting Current Configuration" and other requested operations were on progress.
- Well, to successfully uninstall/downgrade your previously installed IE 8, you're strongly recommended to deselect the option "Do not restart now" and click Finish button on it to restart your Windows without any delay.
- Please remember to re-run your newly changed IE program to ensure that you've completely move to the meat of this section: to do so, run it when you're back to your XP automatically and click Help menu and enter the About Internet Explorer again.
Section 2: How to Downgrade Internet Explorer 9 on a Windows 7 system?
- Similarly, you must be the administrator user now and you have saved and closed any personal files on your computer.
- You then may need to click Ask me later button on Windows Internet Explorer 9 below if you're also running it for the first time.
- Now, please click on the Gears icon on right top of it and enter the mentioned About Internet Explorer item again.
- Click OK on the About Internet Explorer below.
- Save and close any IE windows that still running.
- Clicking the Win7's Orbit button and enter Control Panel on the list.
- Click Uninstall a program under Programs section.
- Please note that you just cannot find the installed Windows Internet Explorer 9 in the Uninstall or change a program list below; instead, you should click on the View installed updates entry on top left of Programs and Features.
- Then you can double click on the listed Windows Internet Explorer 9 on the the following Uninstall an update and click Yes on the Uninstall an update window to start uninstalling this unwanted Windows update.
- "Please wait while the updates are being uninstalled. This might take several minutes".
- Also, you then select the option "Restart Now" on the Microsoft Windows info box below. And then, you re-open the newly configured IE 9 to make sure you've done this section successfully.
Section 3: Take the following steps to get rid of Internet Explorer 10 on Windows 8...
- Double click the saved Control Panel on Desktop.
- Press the Uninstall a program entry.
- You've gotta know that you should click the View installed updates.
- Well, sometimes, you may be unable to find the installed Internet Explorer 10 in Installed Updates portion.
- To cleanly remove your IE 10, you can force uninstall Internet Explorer 10 by pasting its installation (C:\Program Files\Internet Explorer) to the following smart uninstaller Pro.