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by Dwedit 1051 days ago
It is still possible to use Internet Explorer. You just need to remove the BHO that's responsible for auto-closing the program and redirecting you to Edge.
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Or, for one-off usage, you can activate IE via COM and make it visible (in two lines of PowerShell or VBS).
Do you get the real MSIE, or some weird embedded MSIE?

I remember when I was trying to log into GitHub to activate Visual Studio 2019, the embedded browser looked like a historical version of Internet Explorer, and it kept generating endless dialog boxes complaining about script errors on the page.

You get the real deal, a real IE window using the usual IE engine.
I would love to see the PS or VBS example of this
In PowerShell:

    $ie = New-Object -ComObject "InternetExplorer.Application"
    $ie.Visible = $true
The question is: who still wants to use Internet Exploder?
Japan!