How to Disable Internet Explorer
Are you tired of using Internet Explorer? There are lots of reasons why you may want to disable Internet Explorer from your computer. Alternative browser specifically Mozilla are much faster, provides better security and has lots of great features such as addons and themes available that Internet Explorer users are dreaming to have.
The easiest way to disable Internet Explorer is through the Set Program Access and Defaults utility. However, disabling IE doesn’t mean that it will be also uninstalled from your computer. You will not be able to access Internet Explorer but IE still remains on your PC and all the updates regarding IE will still continue. This will prevent you from accessing Internet Explorer though it is still on yor pc. All updates will continue as usual
Here’s how you can easily disable Internet Explorer.
1. Open Control Panel
2. Click on Add or Remove Programs. Depending on your control panel’s setting you may not see the Add or Remove Programs. to fix this just click Switch to Classic View.
3. In the Add or Remove Programs window, Click on Set Program Access and Defaults button.
4. Choose Custom
5. Under “Choose a default Web Browser” Uncheck Internet Explorer’s Enable access to this program.
5. Click Ok
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6 Comments
Very helpful as IE always comes up when I am debugging applications and I would rather have Firefox load the pages.
hmmm…why don’t we just uninstall the IE all together ? much simpler that way I think..doesn’t waste the space..
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A helpful trick to keep in mind. There are some that really prefer other browsers than IE, so this will be really useful for them. I always keep both Firefox and Internet Explorer browsers. Depending on what I’m working on, I tend to favor one over the other. Thanks so much!
I always use Firefox its very suitable for me, thanks I am going to follow you tips.
I have a virus on my computer and spyware, and all of the popups open up in internet explorer, and I was wondering if there was a way to disable IE completely?
while doing trouble shooting with router’s,anti virus and firewalls I prefer Internet explorer..I enjoy mozilla though
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