Installation Problems in Win7.How to quit Internet Explorer?

My old PC packed up and I had to buy a new one which came with Win7. When I attempted to install my Adobe programmes I get a message telling me it cannot proceed until I quit Internet Explorer.  THis is "unquitable" in Win 7. It is ALWAYS running in the background. It is also impossible to uninstall.

We have plenty of systems running Windows 7, both the 32-bit and 64-bit variants. None of them have Internet Explorer always running in the background or otherwise.
What makes you believe that Internet Explorer is always running the background?
Quit all instances of Internet Explorer, open up Windows Task Manager, open the tab for processes (making sure you click the Show processes from all users option box). At this point you should not see any process with the Image Name of iexplore.exe if your system is properly running and configured. If you do see such a process running, it is indicative that Internet Explorer is being invoked by some other progam running on your system (not any from Adobe!). Try right-clicking on the line with the iexplore.exe process and choose End Process Tree. That should fully shut down Internet Explorer until you explicitly run it or some other program tries to run it. Then try the installers again.
          - Dov

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