Uninstalling IE
 

Okay, since mozilla's being an ass... IE6 used to work perfectly but since I've installed the latest verion IE7 EVERYTHING AND ANYTHING "cannot connect" to the Net... yah! I can't use IE anymore... so I wanna uninstall IE so I can reinstall IE6... I hope it's possible I can't find it under control panel>add remove

You have to hit the check box that says "Show Updates" and then you should be able to find the uninstaler for IE7.

Use Firefox.

In all seriousness, I think when you install stuff like Internet Explorer 7, Windows Media Player 11, etc., the only way to uninstall it is to have the system restore service on, because the installer creates a rollback point.

Yeah, I know, crazy for Microsoft to not just back up previous version's files.

you can Uninstall IE with XPlite but you need winxp cd to reinstall again

Okay I did uninstall using "Show Updates" and rebooted.... but for some reason when I click on IE6 installer it says "a newer version of IE is installled in the computer setup cannot complete" and when I check again in add remove stuff with the show updates there is NO IE anymore.... so wth.... I'm really getting irretated... the IE explorer shortcut is still there but I get this http://img205.imageshack.us/img205/8753/untitledsg3.jpg

I tried XPlite and I got a Windows XP Setup error saying "The application could not be initialized"

Fail with XPLite. www.nliteos.com is far superior.

Render, that's only in certain cases.
If I recall, nLite cannot operate on a live system; in all my testing, it is made to operate SOLELY against a batch of files one would get from an installation disc.

XPLite is superior in the case that you do not want to reinstall your system, and it works reliably. I have used it on many SP1/SP2 installations to remove IE, the driver cache, WMP, and other useless features without issue--much the same as I stated back in the "Remove WMP" thread, or whatever it was called.

Seeing as Windows is so reliant on Internet Explorer, wouldn't removing it break other things within Windows? Or break them more?

You can safely remove the IE binary (or so to speak). Its HTML rendering engine, however, is more... built in to Windows--rendering functions for things such as Windows Help and the like are still intact.

I remove IE and the "IE Core" without any breakage on my system. This is not to say that it wouldn't break features to do this, but I prune most things out, so I really couldn't tell you.

About all that survives is Disk Cleanup, Disk Defrag, languages, and some things like the JET DB engine, among other system-critical items.

I didn't know it modified a live install! Interesting really, but I prefer a fresh install, especially if major key components of Windows are going to be removed. Not to mention that XPLite charges money for the most basic features that nLite provides. From what I see, nLite seems to have a more comprehensive feature set.

It most certainly does. My only issue, again, is that you need to completely reinstall to use nLite successfully.

But really--if you've got a choice between reinstalling with it stripped down, and stripping it down while it's installed... take the first, as Render implied. It's far easier.