But is it also important to uninstall IE?
Not only is it unimportant but it's also impossible to all intents and purposes. Windows Explorer and Internet Explorer are tied so tightly together (IE is just a shell on top of Explorer as I understand it) that even if you did figure out a way to 'uninstall' IE you'd very likely knack Windows completely. Plus, you do still need IE to run Windows Update as, unsurprisingly, MS don't let you on there with any other browser.
And I possibly am a bit of an idiot when it comes to surfing the internet, so am also considering Sandboxie. I don't know if anyone has particular feelings about that.
Dunno dude, I've never tried it myself. You could give it a shot, it couldn't hurt, though I would give one warning from having read about it: it mentions that everything you do on the net, including file downloads, are performed within the sandbox and deleted when you shut the application down. Whihc is fair enough, but it strikes me that if you'd downloaded anything important you wanted to keep, but forgot to explicitly tell Sandboxie you wanted to keep said file before shutting Sandboxie down, your monitor might well be in danger of having a frustrated fist put through it when you realised you'd accidentally delete everything at the click of a mouse. So, yeah, I'd watch out for that. |
