joanie, you can't remove IE it works with to much other stuff on your PC. Thanks to Microsoft. But you will find some company software will not work with Firefox either. I love fire fox because of it not freezing up like IE does. The other thing I did was set it up to clean itself as well which you can't do with IE either. You do that under tools options, choose privacy and then custom your history. Drop your storage down below a week's time. Then Selected what third party web page pop-up you want. The other thing is you choose Firefox as your main browser so IE will only pullup when you then select it and it'll do a pop up asking you if you want IE as your main browser. Microsoft should take some lessons from Mozilla because their browser holds up far better than IE.