you may have to go and acquire the Windows Media Center upgrade which will install a bunch of additional decoders.
IE 11 is actually a pretty good browser and works very well on most sites while drawing far less power than many other browsers.Īlso note: If you want to use Media Player to watch DVD's, etc. Note: You can still continue to use any other browser if you wish, but it's worth leaving IE there in case you need to use it again. Your machine should now enable IE and Media Player again. Also expand the "Media Features" item and make sure you tick "Windows Media Player".Tick the box next to "Internet Explorer 11".Hit "Turn Windows Features on or off" on the left of the Programs and Features window.Select "Programs and Features" from the search results list.At the start screen, simply type "Features".Just follow these steps to re-enable Internet Explorer: However, fear not - you can choose to install IE if you wish. instead of IE, IE may not have been enabled on your machine. Prompted to select which browser you want to use However, if you're in Europe, you may have been It sounds like you're running Windows 8.x on an Intel/AMD compatible CPU which narrows down the problem a little.Įvery version of Windows includes IE. Windows RT is the version of Windows for ARM powered devices like the Surface RT, Surface 2, Nokia 2520 and other lower-end tablets. The reason asked if you were running Windows RT is because Media Player is not included in this version of Windows. OTOH I wasn't testing with a broken IE, like the one that you have, so maybe you will have different results. Had been no repair effect from the procedure. Also, I was tracing with ProcMon and it was pretty evident that there For one thing, another boot would be required then but when I tried it that was not required. It would be a great place to haveĪ repair for the OS browsing functionality but I don't think it is implemented. All it does (or at least did originally) is hide or restore the iexplore.exe stub browser program. I doubt if it would work but several people claim that it has worked for them. Yolanda gave you the suggestion to untick, reboot and tick the Internet Explorer 11 component in the Windows Features list.
Unfortunately there is no way to re-install that browsing functionality or repair it separately. It needs to be there or Windows Explorer and other components of the OS would be partially non-functional. In W8.1 you have browsing functionality built into the OS which is known as IE11 whether you use it or not. This I've discussed here before, and since I didn't really need it and nobody believed it anyway, I just forgot about it.