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Internet Explorer 10 will not roll back to IE-9. Help!
So, Internet Explorer woes. Let me organize my thoughts so that my issue is as clear as possible to potential readers / kindly helpful members...
Rule 1 obeyed; try to do it yourself / Google is your friend, etcetera, etcetera.
THE ISSUE:
I have (had) IE-10 installed as an update on Windows 7 64 bit Home Premium. Note: the updates themselves have been an issue in the past, though mostly resolved by adherence to Rule 1. For a work application, I require IE-9 (imagine a company - a reputable French Aviation company by the way - basing its technical data reference on an obsolescent browser usable in only one OS?).
The short story;
The system will not roll-back to it upon uninstalling EI-10 and nor it will IE-9 install from a downloaded "IE9-Windows7-x64-enu" installer (from MS, of course). Attempts to install it give me this rather contradictory information in a message box;
So, where is it, then? A search through the folders leads me to "iexplore.exe" in "Program Files (x86)/Internet Explorer", and in "Program Files/Internet Explorer" but these still launch IE-10.Internet Explorer did not finish installing
Internet Explorer 9 is already installed on this system.
Longer story (ie; more details);
How did I unistall IE-10 is an obvious question I would be asked. Here are the answers.
First, through "Installed Updates". I got this, after the obligatory "Updates are being uninstalled. This may take several minutes" message;
So, then I attempted to forcibly remove it through the command line, as administrator, with this recommended method;An error has occurred. Not all of the updates were successfully uninstalled.
Still no joy. Some echo lines run through the command line saying that the "package" (heheh! Very Linux) is being uninstalled. After this procedure, there was no more Internet Explorer option of any description at all in the Programs Startup list, but the "iexplore.exe" was still in the folders mentioned above. Opening it this way launched IE-10 again, despite it being "uninstalled". What's the joke?FORFILES /P %WINDIR%\servicing\Packages /M Microsoft-Windows-InternetExplorer-*10.*.mum /c "cmd /c echo Uninstalling package @fname && start /w pkgmgr /up:@fname /quiet /norestart"
Sooo. I went to "Programs->Turn Windows features on or off", unchecked Internet Explorer 10, and re-ran the command in administrator command line...
The same business with "Package removal" echo lines, and upon completion I checked again for "iexplore.exe" and it had gone completely. Good, I thought, and attempted to install "IE9-Windows7-x64-enu". Same contradictory message about it not being installed and it being already installed. What the heck?FORFILES /P %WINDIR%\servicing\Packages /M Microsoft-Windows-InternetExplorer-*10.*.mum /c "cmd /c echo Uninstalling package @fname && start /w pkgmgr /up:@fname /quiet /norestart"
Now, I am beginning to think this needs a more brute force approach (and yes, I have rebooted on several occasions during this procedure), and as I have not been a Windows "power user" since Win 95 and before, when I was a dapper-hand at DOS, I am reticent about proceeding from here.
Obviously, IE-9 is NOT installed, but the system is convinced it IS installed. I am thinking Registry here. Should all traces of IE-10 and IE-9 be purged out, and all Internet Explorer folders be manually deleted, so that I can do a fresh install of IE-9?
Help me out here, please. As I said, it is for work, not play.