Microsoft’s old web browser, basically dead and buried, can run on Windows 11 even though it’s not supposed to be installed there.
Remember, a few weeks ago, Microsoft definitively signed the death warrant of Internet Explorer. After 27 years of loyal service, the most unloved (and probably the most buggy) web browser officially bowed out.
Or so we thought. Because there is obviously a way to use Internet Explorer in Windows 11. This is also a real surprise since the browser was supposed to be disabled from Microsoft’s operating system. Windows was as such the first OS not to embed it natively for twenty years. Instead Microsoft forces you to use Edge, the replacement for Internet Explorer. It is also to this that Windows 11 returns you if you try to run Internet Explorer.
But Microsoft obviously forgot to clean up its operating system. The OS, which still incorporates many elements inherited from older versions of Windows, is, against all odds, capable of running Internet Explorer.
This was discovered by @XenoPanther, a Twitter user who revealed, screenshot in support, the method to execute it.
Friendly reminder that IE still works in August 2022 pic.twitter.com/f2hg41LwIp
—Xeno (@XenoPanther) August 2, 2022
Hidden in Internet Options
For those who would like to inflict this test on themselves, the method of accessing Internet Explorer in Windows 11 is not very complex. To run it, click on the menu To start up and look for them Internet Options.
In the window of Properties of: Internetselect the tab Programsthen click Manage Add-ons.
A new window should then open. At the very bottom of it, click on the menu Learn more about toolbars and extensions.
Internet Explorer should then automatically launch on your machine under Windows 11 (and display a very unconvincing result).
If you do not have the courage to try the manipulation, you can always watch it thanks to the video produced by Tom Warren, journalist at The Verge, who relayed the information on Twitter.
you thought Internet Explorer was dead, didn’t you? muahahaha ?
⎛⎝( ` ᢍ ´ )⎠⎞ pic.twitter.com/i5bXZwLRr3
—Tom Warren (@tomwarren) August 3, 2022
Did Microsoft forget to clean up Windows 11? This is very likely, especially since Internet Explorer run in this way works perfectly and even bypasses the redirection to Edge in principle put in place by Microsoft.
Source :
The Verge