disabling iexporer will foreclose the functionality of other programs?

[drugo]

hi

i would really like to disable internet explorer in the feature list

but will it foreclose the functionality of other programs?

i mean could some programs stop to work?

may i know which are the more commons

and to re-enable it's easy? do i need the dvd or can mess up the system
thanks

 

[TwoCables]

I think Steam relies on it as do a few other programs. Why do you want to do this?

 

[drugo]

I think Steam relies on it as do a few other programs. Why do you want to do this?

steam do you mean the game client?
because i use only firefox

 

[TwoCables]

I think Steam relies on it as do a few other programs. Why do you want to do this?

steam do you mean the game client?

Yep!

because i use only firefox

This isn't a good enough reason (Firefox is the only browser I use too). Disabling Internet Explorer won't provide you with any benefits.

 

[herqulees]

Disabling IE is good for security, I don't know if IE is still as terrible as it used to be, I hear it's great now, but I'll still never go back to it. Either way not here to bash IE, if you don't use it, remove it, gets rid of loose ends. Removing IE does not affect Steam or any other programs on the computer. On fresh installs of Windows since Windows XP I've disabled it and not once have I gotten an error or request to re-enable it. Still not here to bash IE, but because of how bad it used to be most programs do not rely on it, thus I've never heard of it being needed for something, but if it ever is needed all you have to do is re-check it and Windows will reinstall it, no DVD or downloading needed, takes just a minute.

 

[TwoCables]

How is it good for security if you're not even using it? I mean, how is disabling it making a difference to your system's security?

 

[herqulees]

How is it good for security if you're not even using it? I mean, how is disabling it making a difference to your system's security?

While disabling IE does not actually remove it from the computer, since you can re-enable it without the DVD, it still locks it up and removes it from the installed programs list. If the OPs computer were ever to say get a virus that did something requiring/involving IE, well you just took its ammo and now it can't do anything. And this theory of mine applies to any program that you don't use.

 

[Dude]

How is it good for security if you're not even using it? I mean, how is disabling it making a difference to your system's security?

While disabling IE does not actually remove it from the computer, since you can re-enable it without the DVD, it still locks it up and removes it from the installed programs list. If the OPs computer were ever to say get a virus that did something requiring/involving IE, well you just took its ammo and now it can't do anything. And this theory of mine applies to any program that you don't use.

That theory doesn't hold water with me. If I were one that made a virus that could use IE, I'm sure I could enable it too. I think it's just paranoia.

 

[herqulees]

How is it good for security if you're not even using it? I mean, how is disabling it making a difference to your system's security?

While disabling IE does not actually remove it from the computer, since you can re-enable it without the DVD, it still locks it up and removes it from the installed programs list. If the OPs computer were ever to say get a virus that did something requiring/involving IE, well you just took its ammo and now it can't do anything. And this theory of mine applies to any program that you don't use.

That theory doesn't hold water with me. If I were one that made a virus that could use IE, I'm sure I could enable it too. I think it's just paranoia.

Well everyone has their own ways. Either way the main question still stands, IE is never used, so why keep it? Since XP I've disabled it from day one and deleted the Internet Explorer folder from Program Files, something I did just out of curiosity if it'd crash anything, and here it is ten years and three different OSs later I do the same without issue. I keep a backup of the IE folder along with tons of other folders and files I've stripped from my still fully functioning OS, but have yet to need them.

 

[Dude]

I use chrome as my main browser but have had a few sites, functions that required IE, that is why I keep it.

 

[Britton30]

Disabling IE will produce no benefits in security vulnerability nor system performance. Almost every program that auto updates along with w7 updates uses IE or the IE engine and functions. Just leave it and don't use if you don't want to.

 

[drugo]

How is it good for security if you're not even using it? I mean, how is disabling it making a difference to your system's security?

While disabling IE does not actually remove it from the computer, since you can re-enable it without the DVD, it still locks it up and removes it from the installed programs list. If the OPs computer were ever to say get a virus that did something requiring/involving IE, well you just took its ammo and now it can't do anything. And this theory of mine applies to any program that you don't use.

thanks a lot!

 

[Torrentula81]

First thing I do as well is disable IE before setting up my internet drivers. Have never ran into a problem where program says needs IE. If I ever do i'll find a different program. In malwarebytes under more tools click on one of those links. It will bring up IE even though default is firefox. Don't have IE any more so cant confirm but when I was going through this you couldn't change the defaults for certain extensions from IE like .url. Even changing them in Control Panel\Programs\Default Programs\Set Associations didn't (still don't for firefox) work for me so bye bye it went. IE used to be a highway of virus. Not sure how it is now but I don't care to ever find out. Not only that but you got constant updates to instal. No good reason to keep it.

 

[bobafetthotmail]

What a lot of programs need to work is a default browser. IE is just one of the bunch.

Still it is nowhere near the mess that IE 6-7 was, (it's actually pretty secure, more than a standard firefox).

I still need it because some of the sites I go on are still "optimized for Interent Explorer".