Internet Explorer was finally killed off for almost every consumer version of Windows on June 15, 2022. It’s death was even
mournedcelebrated with faux gravestones commemorating it as a “good tool to download other browsers”. However, it seems like Microsoft’s browser still lives on in the depths of its latest operating system.Although Windows 11 does not officially come bundled with Internet Explorer, the ancient browser can still be launched on the OS.
This thing will never die. I will go to my grave when Windows 32 hits and it will still come with iexplore.exe because the online passport request form in some tiny municipality in Slovenia only works in IE.
This makes sense – MS seem to have implemented the IE redirection to Edge as an IE plugin/helper object (one which you normally can’t disable) – it shows up in this video as the IEtoEdge BHO.
You can if you really want to reenable IE by gutting that extension – there’s a few ways I won’t go into here but it basically just restores IE to its former glory via normal startup paths without it prompting about edge. There’s less entry points in W11 but they’re still around.
Or just use Windows Server where you’ve another ~10yrs of support for IE yet.
#sarcasm
IE? What about Netscape 3? I miss the meteors.
Or the HikVision CCTV camera system ActiveX plugin.
Oh God why? why did you have to give me PTSD by saying the dreaded A word? When I worked corporate IT there was 2 words that would make any techie reach for the antiacid were ActiveX and Flash, hell I had one place I did a bit of moonlighting for hand me a nice check and the company card to come in for a weekend to set up a bunch of KVMs for their engineers with the second machines set up local only, why? Because they had equipment that cost 10s of thousands a pop that would ONLY work on old versions of IE thx to critical components using badly written ActiveX plug ins or tied to some ancient version of Adobe Flash. Try to update either? Yup crash city…
These cameras would also overwrite their kins ActiveX plugin, which may or may not have been compatible with the previous camera. Nothing like a completely fluid and unstable platform to drive antacid consumption.
That is why I had to quit corporate IT, the stress of dealing with garbage software and being constantly told to “just work around it” instead of actually fixing anything was giving me stress ulcers and I ended up looking like walking death. It got so bad my 2 boys had an intervention like I was an alcoholic and said “we can live with less money coming in, we can’t live without you, and we are afraid you are going to have a heart attack”.
And it all came down to the big 4 piles of offal, Flash, ActiveX, VB and Java. If I could have replaced those 4 with things that weren’t a teetering mess of spaghetti coded band-aids on bullet wounds? My life would have been stress free.
bassbeast,
I’ve had a lot of stressful IT jobs also. It can be very stressful to work with small companies where the low pay is compounded by wearing all the hats and the incessant pressure to do everything cheap & fast…
“There are security vulnerabilities we need to fix and this is what it’s going to take to do it right.”
“Oh, well the budget is half that and I want it done by tomorrow morning.”
Ugh.
I don’t want to be a cog in a giant company where one’s contributions can go unnoticed. It’s all just a rat race. Hopefully we can all find a job that allows us to live comfortably.
I hate that the banks are still using IE via the Edge Browser’s compatibility feature which looks to me like it just opens IE inside Edge.
The only cool thing to ever happen from IE was that promotional anime Microsoft Singapore made for the release of IE11.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BHTUlF7NA2o
Winamp lives!
All I need now is a Winamp Voicemeeeter hybrid love child that operates / serves through IE and I could become the next Mr Creosote!
I quite like Edge, I do not see the point of IE mode, I get that IE still probably renders more pages than many other OS browsers combined, and I will have to find ways to sustain it like it or not!
The only versions i like of winamp is 2.95 and the much older 1.02. This is because 2.95 works on windows 95 onto windows 11 with no patches, and has a much faster playlist and search than any of the 3.* 4.* 5*. version does. And the 1.02 was the last version that has libs i need for mp3 in DOS.
Not that i even use windows any more, but i like to keep my win95 and drdos7.* installs as virtual machines. It is mostly nostalgia, but i do own a 486 machine with a broken harddrive, so it would be cool to play some MIDI, awe or mp3’s on that bad boy when i get time for it. I might post a yt video if you are interested.
Had a PS/2 with the 486SLC3 (486 in name only) so playing mp3s was out of the question.
bubi,
We actually did manage to play mp3s on a 486 in school. I don’t recall the speed of the CPU. There was no headroom for winamp effects of any kind. I wouldn’t recommend it especially when you can get a RPI that’s better in every way, but it worked.