Right from the start, Internet Explorer diverges from being a normal application. In Control Panel, look for Add/Remove Programs or simply Programs: While we can’t do exactly that, I’ll walk you through what we can do that gets us fairly close as close as we can get without reinstalling Windows itself, anyway. Specifically, it would be good to be able to uninstall it completely and then reinstall it from scratch.
Unfortunately, there are times when we’d really like to treat it like a “normal” application. Some components simply are parts of Windows.
In fact, it’s such a component of Windows that you may be able to make the shortcuts and icons related to IE go away, but you can never really get rid of everything. Treated like an application, it’s also considered a Windows component.
