My husband has just installed Internet Explorer 7 and it is hideous! The buttons look like a child has drawn them, the light blue gives me a headache and I hate the tabs it uses! Is there any way to make it look like version 6, or revert back to version 6? Are we stuck with this amateurish looking browser?
2007-01-09 05:59:48 · 17 answers · asked by Anonymous in Computers & Internet ➔ Internet
Many thanks to Danuitti - your precise instructions got my browser back to normal! Exactly what I needed.... what a relief x
2007-01-09 07:39:05 · update #1
Uninstalling Internet Explorer 7
To uninstall Internet Explorer 7 and restore Internet Explorer 6 when using Windows XP or Windows Server 2003
1. Click Start, and then click Control Panel.
2. Click Add or Remove Programs.
3. You might have to CHECK the box that says SHOW UPDATES
4. Scroll down to Windows Internet Explorer 7, click it, and then click Change/Remove.
If you cannot find Internet Explorer 7 in Add or Remove Programs, click Start, click Run, type
%windir%\ie7 \spuninst\spuninst.exe
(I added a space after ie7, so you could see the whole line)
and then press ENTER.
For more information, check this page at the Microsoft website. http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/ie/aa740486.aspx
If you have further trouble, you might try the RESTORE thing in the System Tools folder and go back a few days before you made this terrible mistake.
Good luck and Happy Computing!
2007-01-09 06:05:27 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
You can go back, but there are some security features that can really be OK with ie7 that ie6 doesn't have.
First, to get your menu bar, right click on the bar between the tabs and the word 'home' and choose the menu bar. Then if you want, choose the customize feature (rt click again), and choose to change the icons how you want them.
Next, you can go to Tools>Internet Options and change the settings so that it turns off the tabs and other stuff that you want to change.
If that still doesn't suit you, go to Control Panel>Add/Remove Programs and scroll down to Windows Internet Explorer 7 to remove it.
2007-01-09 06:08:16 · answer #2 · answered by colleen m 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
To revert back to IE-6, use your add / remove programs in control panel, just be sure that "Show Updates" is checked up at the top. That's all there is to it!
2007-01-09 06:04:05 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Don't think you can change the look, but you can uininstall
Just go to Control panel, Add/Remove, and remove windows internet explorer 7
2007-01-09 06:06:00 · answer #4 · answered by simon.foxcroft 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Go to Start>>Control Panel>>Add/Remove. Ensure "Show Updates" has a tick. Remove IE7 and you will automatically revert to IE6.
2007-01-09 06:03:15 · answer #5 · answered by Carella 6 · 3⤊ 0⤋
If for some reason you want to use IE7 but have it look like IE6 (pointless but I'll tell you how)
Set windows to show hidden files and folders, go to c:/windows/ie7 and run iexplore from there. You can also right click on iexplore and send to desktop to create a shortcut.
Much better to go back to ie6 or switch to firefox or opera though
2007-01-09 09:12:28 · answer #6 · answered by Gordon B 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
IE7 is a glorified patch for IE6 and so you can uninstall it from the Control Panel ("Add/remove Programs"). It takes a while and you need to reboot however.
2007-01-09 06:49:57 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
You only need to do a search on here to see how many people are having problems with IE7. The best thing to do is download Mozilla Firefox available from http://www.mozilla.com/ Its faster, more user friendly, easily customisable to suit your needs and no problems.
2007-01-09 10:22:54 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
Control Panel then Add/Remove
2007-01-09 06:20:43 · answer #9 · answered by D G 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
you can run internet explorer 7 as though it was internet explorer 6:
go to C:\WINDOWS\ie7
locate iexplore.exe; right click, select "send to" > desktop
double click the ie shortcut and your browser will run as internet explorer 6
2007-01-09 07:37:43 · answer #10 · answered by zoomjet 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋