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Jim Allchin's not even a good liar. It can be done on any pre-Windows XP Operating System with Win98lite software.

I had a problem creep up in my IE 6.0 browser on XP Professional, which required I uninstall and re-install IE 6.0 to correct. So to say that the browser can't be removed from the OS may not be entirely correct.

Granted, I did not do an inventory of executables and runtime dll's to see if IE was totally removed, but it was unregistered from add/remove programs and off the menu's and taskbar.

Windows common Setup program is embedded in IE, so some components of IE may need to stay permanently resident, but I don't think the entire Browser needs to be there.

Hmm...maybe that can be today's homework. I was looking for something to do with my last vacation day....

Either it's there or it isn't. I don't think they should be required to make it invisible just to make all of their competitors feel better.

Not seeing it doen't make it so.

I had a problem creep up in my IE 6.0 browser on XP Professional, which required I uninstall and re-install IE 6.0 to correct. So to say that the browser can't be removed from the OS may not be entirely correct.

Granted, I did not do an inventory of executables and runtime dll's to see if IE was totally removed, but it was unregistered from add/remove programs and off the menu's and taskbar.

Ummmm....this is actually not possible. IE 6.0 DOES NOT show up in the Add/Remove Programs applet for the Windows XP Professional (or Home) operating system. IE 6.0 is built in. The only way you might have seen it in your add/remove programs (and therefore thought you were uninstalling it) was if you had installed it on an earlier version of Windows and then upgraded that version of Windows to XP Provessional. Then the IE app might give you the option to uninstall, but all you'd really be doing was replacing IE 6.0 with.....IE 6.0.