For a friend of mine, IE 11 was installed via automatic Windows updates. Unfortunately, the screen reader in use doesn’t support IE 11 (which freezes everytime after starting it), so I wanted to downgrade to IE 10.
I followed these steps:
- I disabled "Internet Explorer 11" at Control Panel → Programs → Programs and features → Windows Features
- It asked me to restart, but I canceled
- I deinstalled "Internet Explorer 11" at Display installed updates
- I repeated step 1 and 3 for "Internet Explorer 10"
- This time I restarted
After the restart, I tried to install IE 10 manually. The installation failed (with an error code I can’t recall; may have been 9C59
).
Searching for this error code, I read an advice to remove IE 9 also, and to install all updates for IE 8 after that, and then to install IE 10 manually (without installing IE 9 first). But it failed, too.
So now I have IE 8, and installations of both, IE 9 (via Windows Update) and IE 10 (via Windows Update and also via direct download), fail.
How can I install IE 10 again?