fuIE: Disable Internet Explorer on WinXP

With WinXP being officially unsupported by Microsoft and new Internet Explorer vulnerabilities being discovered, you may want consider disabling Internet Explorer on all computers running Windows XP.  If you do, see below for a handy script to basically kill the application.

Renaming the mshtml.dll is a method discussed more in depth here: http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewtopic.php?t=157214

After running the script you will be promoted with this window, just click [ Cancel ]



fuIE

name as such because I have used this expression many a times - fuie on urbandictionary

fuie: disables Internet Explorer on WinXP, usually does as a security measure.

Options:
? - about, this screen
y - reply yes to warning, don't prompt
fix - undo the change, I want IE back
undo - same as fix

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