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Biologist Removes Browser From Windows 98
(12/15/98, 7:59 p.m. ET)
By Andy Patrizio, TechWeb
Despite Microsoft's insistence that Internet Explorer and Windows 98 cannot be separated, a Maryland biologist has done it and is willing to share his methods to anyone who's interested.
Shane Brooks, a researcher at the University of Maryland, began his Internet Explorer extraction project, called 98Lite, because Windows 98 ran so poorly on his Pentium 133-MHz computer.
"It seemed like overkill, that every time I wanted to browse files I was calling up this huge monolithic program," Brooks said. "It really just boils down to reclaiming performance that is lost when software is developed for the top end of the available hardware without adequate consideration for performance at the lower end."
Brooks first tried to install the Windows 95 Internet Explorer on Windows 98. After some experimentation, he determined that only three files had to be removed -- ComDlg32.dll, Shell32.dll, and Explorer.exe. Brooks wrote a small program to extract the older Windows 95 equivalents from the Windows 95 CD and install them in the proper directory.
When that was successful, Brooks removed directories associated with IE 4. The end result was a 32-megabyte reduction in the size of Windows and a near doubling of the Explorer performance on his low-end computer.
The heart of IE, the universal document viewer, is still on the system. That's the HTML rendering engine used to view help files and HTML messages in Outlook Express. VBScript also remains, since it's used in the help files.
Among the things that don't work any more: the Internet Connection Wizard, Windows Update, and advanced shell features of IE, such as Active Desktop and Quick Toolbar.
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