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Disable Windows 7 Features: Internet Explorer 8, Windows Search, XPS Viewer and Others

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Microsoft provides a way to turn off or disable Windows 7 features you may not need. You can completely disable programs like Internet Explorer 8, Windows Search and XPS viewer services and plenty of other stuff on Windows 7 very easily.

How to disable Windows 7′s Services and Features?

All you need to do is go to the Control Panel. Click on the Programs link.

Disable Windows 7 Features

Under ‘Programs and Features’, click on ‘Turn Windows Features On or Off’

Disable Windows 7

In the pop up window that appears, you can disable or turn off several Windows features like Internet Explorer 8, XPS Viewer, Windows Search, Indexing services and a plethora of other goodies that shipped with Windows 7.

Disable Windows 7 Features Like IE 8

That’s how you disable unwanted services and software in Windows 7.

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Written by Shankar Ganesh

May 5th, 2009 at 2:01 pm

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  • KJNSDe

    lol my windows 7 wont let me disable features because this OS sucks plus my windows search keep popping up
    randomly making it very difficult to write like im doing
    now

  • max

    You’re joking, right? I found that panel. It does NOT include Internet Explorer. I’m still trying to figure out how to disable drive indexing without just nuking the indexer service like I used to do in XP).

  • swen

    hi there, I have found that window ages ago , but it wasnt much help for me as I was looking for other problem… (though Im sure it will work for the xp issues)
    Anyways floks… would anyone of you have an idea as to how I can completely disable the taskbar in windows7 ???? as I rather use the one that mac has for things work/open alot faster (beside the better looks and less hassle with pop ups)

    x

  • Peter

    @ the people who complain that they can’t disable features in windows 7 :

    1) If you don’t have administrator rights in the PC it is very possible that you can’t turn them off.
    2) Maybe you have the full view of the control panel, showing you many more choices than those depicted in the screenshots. In such a case choose Programmes & Features and on the left side of the window you will see the “Turn Windows features on & off” choice. once you click it you should get the window that appears on the last screenshot

  • Graham

    Hmmmmm I was quite keen to move to 7 but now . . . there must be many like me using the easy tried and tested XP that dread the day when we have to change os! Can Linux up their game by 2014?!

  • daniel

    how can i define which programs should be activated by gpo??

  • Win7 user

    Yup !Windows 7 sucks, I am advising my clients to migrate to Linux, since XP is also going out.

  • the Baron

    This is a good tip, but unfortunately, this feature doesn’t include access to disable other, more annoying features. For example, I want to turn off the display pane that opens for my IE sessions, when I mouse over any of the IE buttons on the task bar.

    It’s part of a general trend in MS’ development, I think. The whole Office 2010 suite of apps has a lot of features that are probably a lot of fun for folks who aren’t too technical, but make things harder to find, in my opinion. Reorganizing the features in Word and in Excel into tabs, for example. It’s easier to find everything on one toolbar, for me, at least.