How can I restore IE 10 after 11 installs?

Question

Hello all,
Internet Explorer 11 automatically installed on my computer and now I'm having trouble logging into several sites (notably my online bank site and
eBay).  I want to go back to IE 10 or even 9 but haven't found a way to do that.  So far I've tried:
Turning IE 11 off (since you can't uninstall it)
Tried to install IE 10 but it says it's already installed (the same goes for IE 9)
Tried to find the .exe file for 9 or 10 (since it's still installed) but every iexplore.exe opens IE 11 and no other.
My last resort will be to do a complete computer restore to an earlier date before IE 11 was installed.  But I hate to do that.
The error I get on eBay is "If you are seeing this page, your browser settings prevent you for automatically redirecting to a new URL."
   I can log in fine with Google Chrome but get nowhere with IE 11.  I’ve tried to find the settings that prevent a page from redirecting but can find nothing, plus IE 11 is totally different from previous versions so have to figure out where
the settings even are.
Can anyone offer any suggestions or tips to help me get back to an earlier version of Internet Explorer?  I’m really frustrated with IE all
together now and if there is no solution, I’ll just stay with Google Chrome.
Thanks,
Marcine

Answer 1

IE 11 is incompatible with a few things in my clients office including their Electronic Medical Records application and Dell server iDrac cards so trying to run in compatibility mode will not work.
Then you should try to find an emulation which does.  Compatibility mode (e.g. adding a site using Compatibility View Settings forces an IE7 emulation which some sites now explicitly reject.   Instead use the Developer Tools, Emulation tab
(F12, Ctrl-8) to find a more acceptable combination of Document mode and User-Agent string. 
Unfortunately there is nothing in the UI which can make such a discovery persist.  However, you can report such compatibility issues here, so that as long as the site does not handle the IE11 UAS correctly, you can at least get an automatic override
for it which it does work with.
http://www.modern.ie/en-us/compat-issue-report
The IE 11 uninstall fails to work correctly and this prevents installing IE 9 or 10.
That's not how it works.  Uninstalling the IE11 update (if possible) returns the OS to the level of browsing functionality it had before the update which raised it to IE11 level.   Ditto for IE10.   So, if you were trying to switch
from IE11 to IE9 (if possible) you could only do it by first uninstalling IE11 and finding IE9 (if that is what you started from) or finding IE10 and then uninstalling that (if possible) in order to find IE9 (if there) or IE8.  If you backed out all the
way to IE8 (e.g. on W7) then you could try installing an update for your OS which referred to IE9.
Robert Aldwinckle