Removing Internet Explorer 4.0 for Windows 95 Using Ieremove.exe

• Microsoft Internet Explorer version 4.0 for Windows 95

SUMMARY

This article describes how to remove Internet Explorer 4.0 for Windows 95 using the Ieremove.exe tool and a registry that was created before you installed Internet Explorer 4.0 (for example, System.1st).

Follow the steps described in this article in the following situations:

• You tried to uninstall Internet Explorer 4.0, but you were unable to do so.
• You restored a registry that was created before you installed Internet Explorer 4.0 while Internet Explorer 4.0 was still installed on your computer.

  Note that you do not need to perform step 1 in the "More Information" section in this article under this condition.

• You have not tried to uninstall Internet Explorer 4.0 by using the steps described in the following article:

        ARTICLE-ID: Q174265
        TITLE     : How to Uninstall Internet Explorer 4.0
  
  

• You have removed the Internet Explorer 4.0 backup files. If you removed the backup files and you are unable to uninstall Internet Explorer 4.0 by using the steps described in the article in the previous bulleted item, you cannot remove Internet Explorer 4.0 without reinstalling Microsoft Windows 95 in a different folder.

MORE INFORMATION

To remove Internet Explorer 4.0 by using the Ieremove.exe tool and a registry that was created before you installed Internet Explorer 4.0, follow these steps:

1. If you have not already done so, restore a registry that was created before you installed Internet Explorer 4.0.

   NOTE: Internet Explorer 4.0 replaces the original System.1st file with a copy of the registry created during the Internet Explorer 4.0 installation. The original System.1st file is saved in the Integrated Browser.dat file (Integr~1.dat) during the Internet Explorer 4.0 installation.

   To extract the original System.1st file from the Integr~1.dat file, type the following commands at a command prompt. Press ENTER after each command

         cd <path>\uninst~1
         attrib integr~1.dat -h
         iextract /L <dir> integr~1.dat system.1st
   

   where <path> is the path to the folder in which Internet Explorer is installed, and <dir> is the folder in which the extracted file will be saved.

   For additional information about using the System.1st file to restore the registry to the state when you first started Windows 95 successfully, see the following article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

         ARTICLE-ID: Q131431
         TITLE     : How to Troubleshoot Registry Errors
   
   

2. Restart the computer. When you see the "Starting Windows 95" message, press the F8 key, and then choose Safe Mode Command Prompt Only from the Startup menu.

3. Type the following commands, pressing ENTER after each command

         cd <path>\uninst~1
         attrib integr~1.dat -h
         iextract integr~1.dat
         copy shell32.dll c:\windows\system
         copy explorer.exe c:\windows
   

   where <path> is the path to the folder in which Internet Explorer is installed.

4. Restart the computer.

5. Click Start, click Run, type the following command in the Open box (with quotation marks), and then click OK

         "<path1>\ieremove.exe" /i:"<path2>\integrated browser.dat"
         /n:"<path3>\ie4bak.dat"
   

   where <path1> is the full path to the Ieremove.exe file, <path2> is the full path to the Integrated Browser.dat file, and <path3> is the full path to the Ie4bak.dat file. For example, if the Ieremove.exe file is located in the C:\Windows\System folder, the Integrated Browser.dat file is located in the C:\Program Files\Internet Explorer Uninstall Information folder, and the Ie4bak.dat file is located in the C:\Windows folder, type the following command (with quotation marks):

         "c:\windows\system\ieremove.exe" /i:"c:\program files\internet
         explorer\uninstall information\integrated browser.dat"
         /n:"c:\windows\ie4bak.dat"
   

6. Click OK, click Yes, and then restart your computer after the Ieremove.exe tool is finished running.

7. Reinstall Internet Explorer 4.0, and then uninstall it. For information about how to uninstall Internet Explorer 4.0, please see the following article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

         ARTICLE-ID: Q174265
         TITLE     : How to Uninstall Internet Explorer 4.0
   
      This step is necessary to ensure that the additional components
      included with Internet Explorer 4.0 are removed.