How to Uninstall Internet Explorer Windows 10? [Simplest Method]

Ariel Mu
3 min readDec 16, 2019

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Summary :

Do you know how to uninstall Internet Explorer from your Windows 10? A great many users are searching for this answer to the question on Google. If you are one of them, read the post of , where detailed steps will be provided.

As an old web browser, the day of Internet Explorer 11 comes to the end. Plenty of excellent browsers like Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox, Opera, and Microsoft Edge are replacing IE. If you don’t want to use it any longer, you can uninstall it.

Hence, a problem comes into being. How to delete Internet Explorer from Windows 10? You can refer to the following 3 methods.

Microsoft announced Internet Explorer 10 will end of support on Windows Server 2012 and Embedded 8 standard next year. It’s time to upgrade.

Method 1. Uninstall Internet Explorer with Control Panel

The first method to remove Internet Explorer is to use Control Panel. You can follow the detailed steps below.

Step 4. Click the Turn Windows feature on or off section on the left pane.

Step 6. Then you will receive a confirmation message, just click on the Yes button.

Step 7. Click on Restart now button to restart your computer.

After you complete the above steps, Internet Explorer should be removed from your computer. When you search the Internet Explorer in Cortana, Microsoft Edge will become the top result and the Open with Internet Explorer option will be shown on the Start button.

How to uninstall Internet Explorer Windows 10? Let’s keep reading.

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Method 2. Uninstall Internet Explorer with Windows PowerShell

Alternatively, you can use Windows PowerShell to delete Internet Explorer Windows 10. PowerShell is a Windows built-in utility that can be used to manage multiple computers by running the command lines. Here you can run a command line to uninstall IE 11.

Step 2. In the pop-up window, type the following command to uninstall Internet Explorer Windows 10 and press the Enter key.

Disable-WindowsOptionalFeature -FeatureName Internet-Explorer-Optional-amd64 -Online

After you complete all the steps, your computer will restart to execute this process and the Internet Explorer will disappear from your installation.

Well, if you need to use the browser later out of some reasons, you can find it back with the above instructions. But you need to replace the command in Step 2 with Enable-WindowsOptionalFeature -FeatureName Internet-Explorer-Optional-amd64 -Online.

Here comes the end of the post. Now, I believe that you already have known how to remove Internet Explorer from Windows 10. Have a try now!

Originally published at https://www.partitionwizard.com on December 16, 2019.

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