Help AT&T has hijacked my Outlook Express!

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Added AT&T WorldNet service and now the header on my OE reads "Outlook
Express provided by AT&T WorldNet Service", and every time I open OE a
prompt window comes up for me to dial up to the service. I can't seem to
find a way to get rid of these annoying pests. Anyone have any ideas?
 
Added AT&T WorldNet service and now the header on my OE reads "Outlook
Express provided by AT&T WorldNet Service", and every time I open OE a
prompt window comes up for me to dial up to the service. I can't seem to
find a way to get rid of these annoying pests. Anyone have any ideas?
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You just had to go and install the AT&T Worldnet software bundle, didn't
you. Did nobody ever tell you that you don't need the ISP's branded software
to access the Internet?

http://inetexplorer.mvps.org/answers2.htm

Go down about three quarters, a little more, until you reach this header:
"Removing ISP branding and restoring the spinning IE globe". Oh, and I don't
consider ISP branding a "hostile" act (the words of the author of the cited
link), nor is it an "annoying pest". When you install their software bundle,
they will brand the access software so you know who they are. If you just
allow your Windows DUN to do the dialing, and the native browser and mail
client to do your work, then you won't encounter the branding problem.
 
slownut said:
Added AT&T WorldNet service and now the header on my OE reads "Outlook
Express provided by AT&T WorldNet Service", and every time I open OE a
prompt window comes up for me to dial up to the service. I can't seem to
find a way to get rid of these annoying pests. Anyone have any ideas?
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You got short changed. No Porno this time, comlain to At&T.
Your problem. Google, if you have an IQ of 101+.
--
Parko
arrogant bastard of the year award, or what?
slownut Says it all...
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now that is really being a bastard
 
When you install their software bundle they will brand the access software so you know who they are.
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The assumption being that people are too stupid to know who their ISP is?
 
Added AT&T WorldNet service and now the header on my OE reads "Outlook
Express provided by AT&T WorldNet Service", and every time I open OE a
prompt window comes up for me to dial up to the service. I can't seem to
find a way to get rid of these annoying pests. Anyone have any ideas?
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Open Regedit (win 9x, not sure about XP) and search for that "Outlook
Express provided by At&t blah, blah blah......). The title bar can be
changed in IE in this manner via registry key, so it's probaly the
same for Outlook Express.
 
You just had to go and install the AT&T Worldnet software bundle, didn't
you. Did nobody ever tell you that you don't need the ISP's branded software
to access the Internet?

http://inetexplorer.mvps.org/answers2.htm

Go down about three quarters, a little more, until you reach this header:
"Removing ISP branding and restoring the spinning IE globe". Oh, and I don't
consider ISP branding a "hostile" act (the words of the author of the cited
link), nor is it an "annoying pest". When you install their software bundle,
they will brand the access software so you know who they are. If you just
allow your Windows DUN to do the dialing, and the native browser and mail
client to do your work, then you won't encounter the branding problem.
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I guess the author wouldn't mind having his house "branded" with
the home of his morgage company either. I see this as the desk
top equivilant of a kid "tagging" property with his monkier
 
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