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Julian wrote: > .... When Windows 98 was launched a colleague in work > managed to cut IE out and still maintain a viable - well.. for Windows > anyway - OS. Also there were Windows 98 Lite versions available which I > believe also gave the ability to remove IE. I think there is even an XP > Lite OS. In Windows 2000 at one point I removed IE by the simple > expedient of deleting it from Add/Remove Programs with no ill-effects. > That could possibly be a result of it being a business OS based on NT4 > and not a direct development of the Windows 3.x - 95 - 98 consumer OS > family. Granted for the average user you can't just get rid of IE, but > I think the *absolute* necessity of it being installed is a myth that > Microsoft are more then happy to propagate. I think I used to have "XP Lite" under the name of Starter Edition for Africa - sort of crippleware arrangement where you could only have 3 windows open at a time and so on, and lacking the MS Office stuff. After installing Firefox I tried to remove IE via Add/Remove Programs, and couldn't. So I disabled IE by cranking the "parental" settings up so that every site needed permission. Thus when I did away with dual-boot for pure Ubuntu, the girlfriend was already trained to use Firefox. Get the next generation of Free Windows Live Services Click here! |
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