Computer trivia

This is in continuation to my previous post about IE 8.0 where I mentioned all the problems with the beta version of Internet Explorer 8.0. This release is very unstable and crashes very frequently. However, as I generally use Firefox, I never bothered to uninstall IE 8.0 and revert to IE 7.

Yesterday, for some reasons, I had to use IE and as the beta version crashes very frequently, I decided to uninstall it and work on IE 7. But then I realized that uninstalling IE 8.0 is not too trivial. There is a catch which I thought I should share with you.

The usual way of going to the control panel, looking for all the installed programs and uninstalling the particular program will not work. You will not find IE 8.0 in the list of installed programs. This is because, IE 8.0 is installed not as a program but as an update. So you got to go into the updates and then uninstall it.

Here is the procedure.
- Go to control panel
- Click on uninstall a program
- In the left pane, click on ‘View Installed updates’
- Select ‘Windows Internet Explorer 8 beta x’ and click on uninstall.
- Confirm the uninstall.
- Restart windows and you will have your old and stable IE 7.

Snapshots.

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