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    • scottalanmillerS
      scottalanmiller
      last edited by

      IE8 was never released for Windows 8 or later. I'm not sure it will run there. It was definitely never supported there.

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      • DashrenderD
        Dashrender
        last edited by

        Windows 8 was released with IE 10, Windows 8.1 was released with IE 11.
        To the best of my memory, you've never been able to downgrade an OS below what came with the OS.

        But do you really need IE 8 or can IE just lie to the website in question about being IE 8?

        Try adding the site to the Compatibility list. By default it will lie to the site and say it's on IE 7. If you need IE 8 specifically there are ways to manually force that, I think.

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        • iroalI
          iroal
          last edited by

          Best option to use IE 8 is use Google Chorme and the extension called IE Tab.

          IE Tab allow you to emulate all the Internet Explorer versions without install Internet Explorer.

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          • LakshmanaL
            Lakshmana
            last edited by

            I found a link now but it is working in my test laptop but not in user laptop.So sad.

            http://blogs.msdn.com/b/askie/archive/2014/03/28/command-line-options-available-to-uninstall-internet-explorer.aspx

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            • LakshmanaL
              Lakshmana
              last edited by

              Any ideas now after seeing the link???/

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              • scottalanmillerS
                scottalanmiller @Lakshmana
                last edited by

                @Lakshmana said:

                Any ideas now after seeing the link???/

                You have your answer already. That link is not related to the conversation.

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                • LakshmanaL
                  Lakshmana
                  last edited by

                  I have answer which is working in the test laptop but in user laptop access denied is shown.The user has admin access

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                  • DashrenderD
                    Dashrender
                    last edited by

                    Are you still trying to uninstall IE 11 from Windows 8? Fine, you can sorta do that - all you're doing it pulling the IE exe out of the system basically. But that won't allow you to install IE 8 on that computer.

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                    • LakshmanaL
                      Lakshmana
                      last edited by

                      The error after giving the above mentioned command in user laptop
                      :

                      PkgMgr.exe has been deprecated. Please update your scripts to DISM.exe to install, uninstall, configure, and update features and packages for windows.

                      see http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkID=195329 for more information,

                      operation failed with 0x80070307

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                      • scottalanmillerS
                        scottalanmiller
                        last edited by

                        You got IE8 installed on your test machine?

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                        • LakshmanaL
                          Lakshmana
                          last edited by

                          Yes the IE8 is installed in the test machine

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                          • LakshmanaL
                            Lakshmana @Dashrender
                            last edited by

                            @Dashrender I am trying to install the IE 8 in Windows 8.My senior is saying that IE8 will able to install in Windows 8.So only trying on it??

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                            • DashrenderD
                              Dashrender @Lakshmana
                              last edited by

                              @Lakshmana said:

                              Yes the IE8 is installed in the test machine

                              What OS is your test machine?

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                              • LakshmanaL
                                Lakshmana
                                last edited by

                                Sorry the test machine with the Windows 7 OS

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                                • scottalanmillerS
                                  scottalanmiller @Lakshmana
                                  last edited by

                                  @Lakshmana said:

                                  Sorry the test machine with the Windows 7 OS

                                  LOL, well that's where IE8 is from. Not much of a test.

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                                  • DashrenderD
                                    Dashrender @scottalanmiller
                                    last edited by Dashrender

                                    @scottalanmiller said:

                                    @Lakshmana said:

                                    Sorry the test machine with the Windows 7 OS

                                    LOL, well that's where IE8 is from. Not much of a test.

                                    Exactly - your test is completely invalid. IE 8 came with Windows 7. Meaning you can install IE 8 on Windows 8. You can not install IE 8 on Windows 8.

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                                    • LakshmanaL
                                      Lakshmana
                                      last edited by

                                      The windows 8 machine is tried with uninstalling by regedit,host entry,system32 any other method

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                                      • DashrenderD
                                        Dashrender
                                        last edited by

                                        You're not understanding - you can't install IE 8 directly on Windows 8 or 8.1 it can't be done.

                                        You do have a few choices.

                                        As I mentioned before you should try compatibility mode first - google it, there are tons of options.

                                        additionally, you could install VirtualBox and install Windows 7 inside that, and the default that it comes with is IE 8 - and you're done.

                                        of course legally, you'll need to purchase another Windows license to do this.

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                                        • LakshmanaL
                                          Lakshmana
                                          last edited by

                                          But the user needs here to install in it for his URL access.He is informing us to do that now

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                                          • scottalanmillerS
                                            scottalanmiller @Lakshmana
                                            last edited by

                                            @Lakshmana said:

                                            The windows 8 machine is tried with uninstalling by regedit,host entry,system32 any other method

                                            Uninstalling isn't the issue. It's installing IE8 that is the hard part.

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