Comments on: How to uninstall Internet Explorer 8 (IE8) in Vista/XP

By: catherine jennifer fusco

catherine jennifer fusco — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 14:23:34 +0000

I don’t know how to fix windows vista xp to fix {KB948465]Failoed update..why do i need to upgrade to IE windows vista Hiome basic ugrade,& is this free?

By: catherine jennifer fusco

catherine jennifer fusco — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 14:19:43 +0000

Jeff Hawkins asking same question as Catherine jennifer fusco[jentilpet] service pack 2 has Failed,why and what do I do to fix the other Failed uopdates?Should I uograde to IE 8 if it has nothing new I can’t use anyway?

By: catherine jennifer fusco

catherine jennifer fusco — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 14:16:43 +0000

My Windows vista update shows Failed for service pack 2,if I ugrade free to IE 8 will this be installed correctly? How do I remove a Failed update under recommendation staus

By: Jeff Hawkins

Jeff Hawkins — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 19:21:45 +0000

After uninstalling IE8, my Office 2003 installation started telling me that it is not authentic. After searching for a cure, I decided to just reinstall. So I uninstalled Office 2003 and reinstalled. Didn’t fix it. Great.

By: Rogue

Rogue — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 15:27:10 +0000

Yes, the instructions to execute the “spuninst.exe” in C:\Windows\IE8\ worked fine.

Thanks for the advice; we’ll not be going near IE8 again for a while. Now happily back to IE6 and staying there.

By: Nicole

Nicole — Thu, 30 Jul 2009 19:56:17 +0000

Omg I hated ie8 soooo much! My computer was running fine until I installed it. The internet would run soooo slow!! It would take literally 20 minutes to get to certain pages! I tried everything on here but nothing worked. All my files were missing so I finally called microsoft help line. I live in the u.s. so it was (866) 234-6020. And some nice guy from Indiana helped me get back to internet explorer 7. He used a tool called microsoft fix it.:)

By: Denise

Denise — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 04:43:54 +0000

Erica…About removing XP SP3, the way I read it you only have to remove it, if it was installed after you installed IE8. First you would uninstalled IE8, restart computer, then you should have a remove button for SP3 in the Add/Remove programs. If the remove button still is not there then it was install before IE7 was installed.

After you uninstalled IE8, did you restart your computer? Also you might go to the microsoft website, there is a “fix it for me” section that I used on one of my laptops to uninstall IE8. It worked great and then IE7 was restored. I didn’t have to reinstall it or anything. Hope some of this helps.

I’m still having a problem with my PC. I keep getting that file corpol.dll.000 is missing from the NT service pack uninstall directory and then the uninstall stops and won’t go any farther. The “fix it for me” didn’t work for this computer. I can’t find anything on microsofts website and I can’t find the file on my computer anywhere. Anybody have any suggestions.

By: Lindsay

Lindsay — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 21:11:43 +0000

Glarysoft Absolute Uninstaller freeware really works for getting rid of that I.E. 8 crap!

By: Kristine

Kristine — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 23:52:41 +0000

First, Thank you Franky for mentioning “hidden files”!!!!

OMG! This IE8 is a total disaster. It was downloaded on my computer in error so I tried to remove it. 1 – I have Vista – what a joke! 2- it was NOT in add/remove programs 3-It was not in the updates either. 4 -I tried every help page I could find – nothing and I mean nothing was working. Then low and behold I see the post up there from Franky from Sept 24, 2008 with the mention of Hidden files. On Vista I found those hidden files( through help) and after I checked to view them, the files showed up on add/remove updates! (YEA) I found the application and was able to uninstall it. I rebooted, on restart it said it was completing 3 updates which scared me, but then it was FIXED!!!!! Oh thank you, thank you to all who’s little tidbits got me there. Good luck to other Vista users!

By: shaun6811

shaun6811 — Tue, 26 May 2009 21:53:27 +0000

Just deleting Windows Ie8 from add/remove programs on XP works just fine after a restart – Copy & paste problem resolved and back to Ie7 – Working fine – Cannot comment on Vista

By: Tom

Tom — Mon, 18 May 2009 22:11:15 +0000

I have tried all you have said to uninstall IE8. During removal I get the following…
When trying to remove IE 8 using removal wizard it stops copying files at hmmapi.dll.mui

To c:\program files \ internet explorer\en-us , then get box that says Copy Error
Red X Setup cannot copy file hmmapi.dll.mui.
Ensure that the location specified below is correct, or change it and insert ‘ Wubdiws NT Service Pack Uninstall Directory’ in drive you specify.
Copy files from:
In box below is says
C:\WINDOWS\ie8 Then a box that has Browse…

It looks like I need to find hmmapi.dll.mui. Any ideas what to do. I can’t install McAfee if I can’t get IE 8 removed and the old IE installed.

By: Erica

Erica — Thu, 14 May 2009 09:01:36 +0000

I still need help here. Well, I got IE8 uninstalled but when I reinstalled IE7. It didn’t work properly. It opened up and closed on me. So i had to revert back to IE8 for now. The Sp3 has no remove button. What method from Microsoft can I use without harming the system? What did you all use to remove it? For me to to go back to IE7, I need XP Sp3 removed off of here. I will download it later but for now, I don’t want it…I’m hoping that Microsoft will put a fix out to download for this later down the road …so it will be easier to revert back to the older IE versions.

By: Roy Smith

Roy Smith — Thu, 30 Apr 2009 10:39:33 +0000

I downloaded IE8 and didn’t like it so I then un installed it, but now every now and then on start up I get my homepage hijacked by a Microsoft run-one-time page that says install IE8, my default browser is switched to Microsoft Live search and about35 MSN, Microsoft and windows links are istalled into my favourites menu.
I have switched everything back numerous times, deleted all the hijack favopurites several times and had a running dialogue with Microsoft Support for weeks and they can’t fix it either!

Can any one tell me how to stop this from happening? PLEASE!

By: Martin

Martin — Thu, 30 Apr 2009 09:39:24 +0000

I uninstalled IE8, but now a password is demanded every time I start my lap-top. Clearly, this is an IE8 leftover. How do I get rid of it?

By: Martin

Martin — Thu, 30 Apr 2009 09:37:18 +0000

I uninstalled IE8, but now a password is demanded every time I start my lap-top. Clearly, this is an IE8 leftover. How do I get rid of it.

PS I love Firefox.