Uninstall Internet Explorer 8 Beta 2 on Vista When not found in Programs And Features

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“Code is read a lot more times than it is written.” – Anthony Moore, Framework Design Guidelines 2nd Ed

Can’t find Windows Internet Explorer 8 Beta 2 to uninstall in Programs And Features, or affter checking “View Installed Updates”? No problem!

To uninstall Internet Explorer 8 Beta 2 in Windows Vista or in Windows Server 2008, do this:

1.Select and then copy the following command to the Clipboard:

FORFILES /P %WINDIR%\servicing\Packages /M Microsoft-Windows-InternetExplorer-8*.mum /c "cmd /c echo Uninstalling package @fname && start /w pkgmgr /up:@fname /norestart"

2. Click Start, and then type cmd.exe in the Start Search box. (If you have Start / Run enabled, just type cmd.exe in the “Run” Textbox).

3.In the list of programs, right-click Cmd.exe, and then click Run as administrator.

(If you are prompted for an administrator password or for confirmation, type the password, or click Continue.)

4.Right-click inside the Administrator: Command Prompt window, and then click Paste to paste the command that you copied in step 1.

5.Press ENTER to uninstall Internet Explorer 8 Beta 2. When the uninstall program is finished, REBOOT YOUR COMPUTER!

Verify that your earlier version of Internet Explorer was restored using the “Help/About” screen. It should look like this:

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Bye-bye, Internet Explorer 8 Beta 2! I’m looking forward to IE 8, but I think I can wait until it’s released.

Peter has been active on the C# and other MS newsgroups, has had samples at gotdotnet.com (now codegallery.com) that have been downloaded over 56,000 times, and has written numerous articles for eggheadcafe.com, for which he is a co-founder, and MSDNAA sites. He has also been a technical reviewer on books from Prentice Hall, Manning and other publishers. Peter was a Microsoft MVP for 10 years. Peter was born and raised in New York City, and after a stint as a jazz musician playing contrabass with the Robert Hunt Trio, migrated to sunny Florida, where he was hired as a rookie Financial Consultant at Merrill Lynch in Orlando, specializing in Corporate Services. It was at Merrill that Peter realized computers and technology were his forte. He spent his last few years at Merrill developing real – time computerized trading and and stock charting program using advanced technical analysis indicators, some of which are his own inventions. In 1997, he moved on to architect and serve as lead developer on a number of innovative web-based and middleware solutions for the healthcare and financial services industry.

Comments

  1. Anonymous5:06 PM

    I've been having an "unsolvable" problem uninstalling IE8 Beta from my windows Vista computer. The program did not appear in the uninstall programs or in the installed updates sections of the control panel (as suggested on other websites). On a whim, I decided to try your suggestion for unistalling Beta 2 and it also worked on my Beta 1. I am forever indebted to you!!!!

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  2. Anonymous8:17 AM

    thank you, thank you, thank you.
    God must have led me to this page. Thanks to whoever put this up. it worked without a hitch.

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  3. Unknown9:55 PM

    Hi Peter,
    I tried your solution but it didnt work.
    Error message in cmd was:

    ERROR: Files of type "Microsoft-Windows-InternetExplorer-8*.mum" not found.

    Any ideas?
    Thanks
    Nathan

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  4. Unknown9:56 PM

    Hi Peter,
    Your solution didnt work for me.
    The error message in cmd was:

    ERROR: Files of type "Microsoft-Windows-InternetExplorer-8*.mum" not found.


    Any ideas?
    Thanks

    ReplyDelete
  5. Justin Collum1:32 PM

    I also had the error with "Error: Files of type...". So frustrating. MS thinks that it's programs don't have to uninstall normally. Jeez.

    ReplyDelete

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