Reverting Back To IE8 After Installing IE9

If you have installed IE 9 and are experiencing problems with it the following instructions will allow you to revert to IE 8. However, and this is a big however, we do not guarantee that you won't experience some problems. While these instructions have worked well for most people, we've also heard of a few experiencing some issues with IE8 after reverting to it. With that warning in mind and the knowledge that we do not provide tech support, here are the instructions.

Unlike most other programs on your computer,, you won't find IE9 listed on the Uninstall or change a program screen. That's because Internet Explorer 9 installs as a Windows update. Here's what you need to do to uninstall IE9 on Windows Vista or Windows 7: click your windows button and type view updates in the search box once the results appear, click view installed updates Don't want to search? Press Win+R and paste in the following:
C:\Windows\explorer.exe shell:::{d450a8a1-9568-45c7-9c0e-b4f9fb4537bd}
then press Enter. wait for the Uninstall an update screen to load completely scroll through the list until you find Windows Internet Explorer 9 click once to highlight IE9, then click the Uninstall button (or right-click and uninstall) confirm that you want to uninstall (click yes)

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Created on ... April 13, 2011