Anyone tried IEradicator?
I'm on Win98SE dual-boot BeOS Pro5.
I'd love to get rid of IE totally. Can it be done , I'm not a very exp'd computer user.

For that matter, you might as well look at the entire 98Lite utility. Then you can get rid of things like the horrid MS Media Player as well (I much prefer Winamp).

Problem is, I have found a number of apps now that require MSIE of at least v4.0 (usually 5.0) be installed. Every time I encounter one of these, I send a complaint to that company, and suggest that requiring MSIE leaves them liable for the viruses ransported *by* that MSIE which they have required.

I don't use O Xpress [uniinstalled also regedit], I use Becky, what else needs IE then? Guess Media Jukebox needs it, better check this out.
It'd be such satisfaction to evict IE though.

Quite many programs need it, actually ..... many HTML editors, Help files (in HTMLhelp format (.chm)), many programs that display HTML in some way ... Also many of the filesharing tools need IE, Morpheus, Kazaa, etc. ... And possibly even some e-mail clients rely on the MSIE engine for displaying HTML mail.
I've had IE free systems until very recently (when I had to install it because I needed to develop HTMLhelp ....) and ran into programs that needed the engine quite often.
Even some browsers!

Good that K-Meleon needs nothing but Win32 (and some libraries ).

Visual Studio needs it, which is why it's installed on my system.

Visual studio doesn't *need* it. It runs fine without it if you hack the install files, which is why it isn't installed on my system.

-- Jeff

There is a utility called 98lite, and there is a link to the free preview on my site.

98lite works on Windows 98/98SE/Me with IE 4 to 5.5, and will remove almost all of Internet Explorer and then replace the Windows 98 shell with the smaller, faster, much more efficient Windows 95 shell, which I also have available for download.

The reason I said it removes almost all of Internet Explorer is because it leaves two files (MSHTML.DLL and SHDOCVW.DLL) so that programs that need IE, including MS Office 97/2000/XP will still work.

http://www.geocities.com/ryanf86_2000/win98tips.html

its dumb to try and get rid of IE its part of the system.. its the same idea kde uses with konq .. the same stuff is used by the file manager, web browser and various other things that use toolbars and windows..

IE is not part of Windows.

You can safely remove it and then install the Windows 95 Explorer shell, thats as deep as their so-called "integration" goes.