IE 10 back to IE 8..

gregrocker · 21 Jun 2013

I do not recommend Google or any other toolbar. Any installed Google program in pernicious spyware that can only be partly mitigated by running the Consumer Opt-out | NAI: Network Advertising Initiative.

Same for staying signed into any Google site including Youtube. They will track you and build a profile on you that is creepily intrusive, answering an email for example proposing lunch on the cheap with ads pasted everywhere for lunch specials under $10. These ads will follow you everywhere.

Use only the stable Google search bar built into Firefox or IE which Google cannot spy from. Just say No to anything Google.

DavidE · 21 Jun 2013

I thought the best/easiest way to revert to a previous version of IE was using "Turn Windows features on or off".
By turning off IE10, won't that automatically revert to IE9 (no need to download/reinstall)?
I've never reverted back, so i never tested this, but that's how I would go back to IE9 if I needed to.
(Unless someone here with experience says "Don't do that...")
Am I wrong in my thinking/assumption...???

gregrocker · 21 Jun 2013

Turning off IE in Features only hides it, that's all.

I believe you can roll it back in Windows Updates if it's listed as an Installed Update when you choose that option at the top looking at the update history, or from Control Panel>Programs. Or hide it and install IE9.

DavidE · 21 Jun 2013

AH, thanks Greg.

I wasn't sure if removing it via Windows Update was better/safer/worse because there may have been updates to IE10 since it was "first installed"...
So, does just uninstalling the original IE10 Update also back out all updates to IE10 that were applied later?
Or, is it necessary to uninstall all the IE10 updates before uninstalling the "initial IE10 update"?

Sorry for my pita questions

gregrocker · 21 Jun 2013

Internet Explorer 10 - Install or Uninstall in Windows 7

I swear there's a tutorial for everything here. I have 270 bookmarked and there's still more!

DavidE · 21 Jun 2013

Well, now my curiosity got the best of me...
I'm going to turn it off on a system, and see what happens...
I'll let you know.

Yea, i know better - curiosity killed the cat.

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clayp · 21 Jun 2013

UsernameIssues said:

Your last post does not answer the question that I asked in my last post... but then again, no one has answered your original question of how to go from IE10 to IE8. We really hate to see you do that - but the answer is in this post.

I suggest that you leave the UAC at the default level or higher.

You might want to watch at 720p and in the full screen mode.

You might be interested in this thread...
Do you use UAC (User Account Control)?
...or maybe not,

I'm trying to install the Google tool bar...Microsoft put IE 10 into my system, I dont like it..I cant find the UAC slider..I have no spell checker!!!!

As far as I know my system is Windows 7 Ultimate X 64...That's about it..I want to thank everyone that tried to help an idiot....

Layback Bear · 21 Jun 2013

Hi Clayp. Try this for spell check.
Open I.E. and at the top go to Tools.
Select Manage add ons
On the left of the screen their will be a box Add on types.
Scroll through there until you find Spell correction and put a check mark there.
In the lower left corner of the big display their should be a box with a check mark in it (enable spell correction).
That should of been default but sometime things don't go as they should.

IE 10 back to IE 8..-i.e.-spell-correction.png

Now here is a great little free program to see what your computer has in it. It works quite well and is easy to use.

http://www.piriform.com/speccy

If you go to Start Orb and type in UAC you will see
Change User Account control settings. Tick on it and you will find what your are looking for.

Hope this helps with some of your problems.
Get back to us on how things go.

Brink · 21 Jun 2013

gregrocker said:

Internet Explorer 10 - Install or Uninstall in Windows 7

I swear there's a tutorial for everything here. I have 270 bookmarked and there's still more!

Well, we do only 1645 tutorials so far.

DavidE · 21 Jun 2013

gregrocker said:

Turning off IE in Features only hides it, that's all.

Tested this in W7 x64 and you're spot on as usual!

Thanks for teaching this old dog a new trick.