delete interner explorer affect windows operating system?

Answer 1

Nope, you dont have to have ANY browser whatsoever if you dont want it. You just cant browse the internet then.

If you want firefox or mozilla, then you can just use that. You dont need IE browser to make your windows work. Its just an addon. However, it does come in handy so you might not want to delete it. There are a lot of companies that use IE as their main developing browser so there might be some scripts and pages that do not work too well with Firefox or Netscape that might want to use IE for.

Answer 2

First you must be logged on to Windows as an administrator.Also note that you cannot uninstall Internet Explorer 7 or Internet Explorer 8 after you install Windows XP Service Pack 3. Ok first step 1:Close all programs. 2:Click Start, and then click Control Panel. 3:Click Add or Remove Programs. 4:In the list of currently installed programs, click Windows Internet Explorer 8, and then click Remove. 5:You are done. By the way stick to Mozilla firefox, Internet explorer sucks!

Answer 3

You cannot delete Internet Explorer, as the code is the same for Windows Explorer.

Answer 4

If you just delete the icon you will be OK. If you delete the folder and all its files you will have problems. IE is integrated with Active Desktop and possibly other Windows components.

So YES it will affect the Windows OS.

Answer 5

Internet explorer can be removed & there affect :-

The idea of removing Internet Explorer from a Microsoft Windows operating system was first proposed during the United States v. Microsoft case. Later, some security advocates took up the idea as a way to protect Windows systems from attack via IE vulnerabilities. Whether the net benefit of removing IE exceeds the cost, and indeed what it means to "remove IE", are disputed.

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1 Vulnerabilities
2 Removing
3 Conflicts
4 Alternative Methods
5 See also



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Vulnerabilities
Simply installing and using another browser does not prevent third party programs and core operating system components from using IE libraries. Thus, a user who does not use IE to browse the Web can still be targeted by attacks against vulnerabilities in these libraries—for instance, via Outlook Express or the Windows Help subsystem. However, removing the IE libraries will cause these programs, and other software which depends upon them, to cease functioning or even to crash the system.

Removing

It is unclear what it means to "remove IE" because such a removal depends on being able to determine which files or functions on an installed Windows system are part of IE — that is, to draw a line between IE and the rest of Windows. Microsoft has held that this is not meaningful; that in Windows 98 and newer versions, "Internet Explorer" is not a separate piece of software but simply a brand name for the Web-browsing and HTML-displaying capacities of the Windows operating system. In this view, the result of removing IE is simply a damaged Windows system; to have a working system without IE one must replace Windows entirely.

It is possible to remove Internet Explorer from Windows 95, 98 and ME (see instructions on the Netscape website [1] and on Microsoft's website [2]), as well as from Windows 2000 [3], Windows XP [4], and Windows Server 2003 [5] at installation time.

In contrast, some programmers and security writers have held that it is possible to have a useful and working Windows system with IE excised, that is, without Microsoft's implementation of web browsing and HTML viewing. Consultant Fred Vorck, who advocates that consumers should have the choice to remove "integrated" features of Microsoft Windows [6]; Dino Nuhagic, who is the creator of nLite — a product that allows users to remove Windows components like Internet Explorer and Windows Media Player, amongst others [7]; and Shane Brooks, who created 98lite to remove and manage Windows components [8], have all suggested removing Internet Explorer from computers in order to decrease exposure to security risks on the Internet [9].

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Conflicts
One of Microsoft's arguments during the United States v. Microsoft trial was that removing Internet Explorer from Windows may result in system instability. At least one commentator supports this argument, and notes that removing Internet Explorer will also disable Windows Update, leaving the user without vital security updates to the operating system [10]. This overlooks the use of a browser plugin like WindizUpdate, that can check for and perform updates without using Windows Update.

When removing Internet Explorer prior to Windows installation using nLite, there is a distinction between remoing Internet Explorer and Internet Explorer Core. If the latter is not removed, core components needed for displaying HTML help files and other operating system tasks are not removed, but the web browser is removed from the system.

Microsoft's position is in contrast with other operating systems and browsers. Other operating systems for desktop computers typically include at least one browser—for instance, Safari in Mac OS X. However, in these systems the web browser can be removed or replaced like any other application.

Answer 6

that depends on your operating system. Older windows platforms will unrecoverably crash if you simply try to delete it.

Answer 7

nope.

i think you can't delete it, but you can disable it or use other browser.