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IE 10 tried uninstalling failed, but now cant do anything
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I need to uninstall IE10 on one of my managers laptop. The company that does our payroll, their website wont work with it.. They have no plans to update their website to suit.
I've spent 2 hours googling for what should be a 5 minute operation. But hey, its Microsoft isnt it.
HP EliteBook 8440p
Windows 7 32 Bit SP1 and patched via WSUS.
loads of ram.
So, cold boot the laptop, log on as local admin, and then gone into Control panel, View windows updates, waited for the list to populate, and then right clicked on it IE 10 and uninstalled.
It goes through the process, reboots, but says the uninstall failed, and reverting... and takes a good 5-10 mins to come back to life, but IE10 is still there. I've tried 2-3 times with same result.. from cold boot, or just a reboot - no difference.
I have tried downloading IE10 from the MS site, and installing it incase it would do something different, but it says the version Im running is newer than the download and wont do anything. I checked the version on the downloaded Exe and the installed version and they are right, the dload is older than installed by around .0021
Download link for Internet Explorer 10
Download Internet Explorer 10 for Windows 7 from Official Microsoft Download Center
So, now I'm stuffed, it wont uninstall and wont install.
This laptop is now heading interstate 1100klms away as the manager couldnt wait any longer, so re-imaging the laptop is not an option -- shouldnt be either for such a small issue.
Help.
Thanks
VB.