Is VB6 still in use of programmers?

[chris128]

I remove ie from my computers if i don't have any thing that needs it
sadly .net needs it

so if you want to get windows xp without msie .net will not function properly

I dont really care for internet explorer on my computer

OK firstly, why would you remove IE? If you dont want to use it then dont use it, set another browser as your default browser - what advantage do you think you are getting by removing it? Lots of stuff in Windows and 3rd party programs uses the DLLs that are part of IE so I'm sure you get quite a few issues if you do completely remove IE. What I suspect you are doing though is not actually removing IE but just uninstalling it, which actually does very little more than just remove the icons on the start menu etc.
I'm not sure why .NET would need anything from IE though unless you are using the Web Browser control - have you got an example of what problems you encounter if you try to run a .NET app on a machine that supposedly doesn't have IE on it?