We're doing that geeky thing now where we're delving too deep into minutiae, but: > as I recall, you couldn't uninstall IE before Windows 7, particularly not b

We're doing that geeky thing now where we're delving too deep into minutiae, but: > as I recall, you couldn't uninstall IE before Windows 7, particularly not by doing anything as simple as dragging it to the trash bin. Sorta, kinda. In XP, you could "uninstall" IE by going to the "Windows features" part of Add/Remove Programs. This would make IE no longer the default browser on the user's system, and make it slightly harder to access, but it was still there. Dragging the desktop icon to the recycle bin would trigger some warning I don't clearly recall, but would still leave IE as the default web browser on the user's system, available at the top of the Start menu.