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=== Assistant: Short answer: No. ===
Short answer: No.
Long answer: Still no — and your DISM log proves why.

==== When DISM installs a capability, it can get it from only three places: ====
# Local component store (WinSxS)
# Windows Update / Microsoft Update servers
# A matching Feature-on-Demand (FoD) ISO

For Internet Explorer on Windows 11, all three are gone.

==== This line is the smoking gun: ====

<syntaxhighlight>CBS HRESULT=0x8000ffff

</syntaxhighlight>

CBS only returns this after:
* Checking WinSxS
* Checking Windows Update
* Checking whether the capability is permitted for this OS SKU

If IE still existed on Microsoft servers, you would see a download attempt or a 404-style error, not a catastrophic failure.

👉 The payload is not published for Windows 11.

==== On Windows 11: ====
* The IE FoD package is not signed for this OS
* Windows Update will not offer it
* CBS refuses to stage it, even if you point DISM at a source

Even if you:
* Extract IE CABs from Windows 10
* Point DISM to /Source:X:\FoD
* Disable WU checks

CBS will reject it due to version & applicability mismatch.

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Microsoft removed both the package and the entitlement.

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That’s why legacy apps still work, but the browser itself doesn’t.

==== If you truly need the actual iexplore.exe: ====
# Windows 10 ≤ 21H2
# Windows 10 LTSC 2021
# Virtual machine
# Dual boot

Windows 11 cannot download it from Microsoft — by design.

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DISM isn’t failing due to corruption — it’s being denied.

If you tell me why you want IE specifically (legacy website, testing, ActiveX, embedded app, nostalgia), I’ll give you the closest possible setup that still works in Windows 11 without fighting the OS.