Removing IE Browser Icon

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Anyone know how to remove the IE browser Icon put in by some 'enlightened'
ISP's to identify themselves. Hate it, just hate it. ;)

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29150 said:
Anyone know how to remove the IE browser Icon put in by some
'enlightened' ISP's to identify themselves. Hate it, just hate it. ;)
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Not the right NG for this question but try this to remove ISP logos from IE:

- Close all browser windows.
- Go to Start, choose Run, and type or paste "rundll32 iedkcs32.dll,Clear"
without the quotes.
- Hit Enter.
 
Anyone know how to remove the IE browser Icon put in by some 'enlightened'
ISP's to identify themselves. Hate it, just hate it. ;)
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For Win9x...

Download IE restore for removing the branding of the browser,
http://www.weeredsquare.co.uk/

Download TweakUI 1.33 for removing icons from the desktop,
to install this right click on the .inf file and choose install, then
you'll find it under the control panel...
http://www.digital-sea.com/cgi-bin/detail.cgi?ID=7

....that should be enough,

if these 2 steps don't work then, go to start > run > regedit
and then look at the following keys:

HKCR\CLSID\{3DC7A020-0ACD-11CF-A9BB-00AA004AE837
HKCR\CLSID\{871C5380-42A0-1069-A2EA-08002B30309D

The icon for internet explorer is stored there, I wouldn't
delete these but you can edit them, and you might
want to go to the next key..

HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion
\explorer\Desktop\NameSpace\

...as sometimes you get items there. Delete any that you are
absolutley sure you will never want, it's ok to delete these
ones under those circumstances. :o)

If none of that works then download IEradicator from
http://www.litepc.com/download.html , this will remove
Internet Explorer 5/6 (4? ..not sure) from Windows 9x,
and it's safe to use as I've tried it myself. After this do
a clean install of IE, more often than not the copys on
magazine cover discs are not branded.

Or you could install an alternative browser (Firebird, Mozilla,
Opera, Netscape etc...) and set it's options so that it is always
the default one, then download a utility called SetBrowser from
http://www.pc-tools.net/win32/freeware/ , just to make sure !
Even after doing this there are some situations where IE will
launch instead of your chosen default (if it's present at all, and
due to the way some software is written), so if you want to be
really thorough go to...
http://jove.prohosting.com/~philho/softwares/PhiLhoSoft/freewares/
and download Proglauncher, read the instructions for it and
slap a copy of it (not called Iexplore.exe yet) into the programs
folder. Start windows with a startup disk and rename Iexplore.exe
to something else, then rename proglauncher to Iexplorer.exe,
reboot into windows and then set it's config (text file) so that
it points to your default browser. Easy !
 
What I detest is the renaming of the browser in the blue title bar
when it is open. Know what can be modified to correct this?

Currently, it reads: So&So Home page - Microsoft Internet Explorer
provided by Comcast High-Speed Internet. These ISP's that think they
have a right to modify without telling....ARGGGGHHH!!!

I would very much like it to read just the title from the html page
that happens to be open. How? Where?

Thanks,
Kitty
 
Kitty said:
What I detest is the renaming of the browser in the blue title bar
when it is open. Know what can be modified to correct this?
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Currently, it reads: So&So Home page - Microsoft Internet Explorer
provided by Comcast High-Speed Internet. These ISP's that think they
have a right to modify without telling....ARGGGGHHH!!!
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Is this from an install of Comcast's branded version of IE? If so, they
do have that right -- it's their software.
 
Is this from an install of Comcast's branded version of IE? If so, they
do have that right -- it's their software.
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No it is not. When AT&T sold out to Comcast, they had us run a small
exe, presumably to reset mail servers addresses & such. It also did
a BUNCH of other stuff - like reset my default home page to
Comcast.net, etc. Several little things. THEY don't own my box, I
do!

I suppose if the branding was all they did, it would not be a big
deal, but, every time I see it, it makes by blood boil.

Meddling jerks! Anyway, I don't want to get onto my soap box (much),
you probably have other things to do than listen to my rants.

Thanks
Kitty
 
Kitty said:
On 14 Jul 2003 17:34:28 GMT, Blinky the Shark <[email protected]>
wrote:
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No it is not. When AT&T sold out to Comcast, they had us run a small
exe, presumably to reset mail servers addresses & such. It also did
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Could've been done manually, of course. Certainly, millions of users
wouldn't know that.
a BUNCH of other stuff - like reset my default home page to
Comcast.net, etc. Several little things. THEY don't own my box, I
do!
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You agreed to run their software, and you didn't have to. Still, I
agree it's foul, since it didn't tell you what was going to be
happening. That's a reason I've never run such software; I've always
just changed server names and other settings manually, when moving from
one ISP to another. Only a few minutes effort. But, then, I haven't
bought a computer off the shelf, either, since my first AT compatible,
in 1990.
 
Thanks!
It's done The location in the registry was all I needed.

Mission accomplished - thx

Kitty
 
Could've been done manually, of course. Certainly, millions of users
wouldn't know that.
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I did know that I could reset them manually, but I made the mistake of
trusting them. Last time that will happen!
You agreed to run their software, and you didn't have to. Still, I
agree it's foul, since it didn't tell you what was going to be
happening. That's a reason I've never run such software; I've always
just changed server names and other settings manually, when moving from
one ISP to another. Only a few minutes effort. But, then, I haven't
bought a computer off the shelf, either, since my first AT compatible,
in 1990.
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I also build my own, but I sure got sucked in. I did not expect them
to pull a stunt like that.

Anyway, with the registry location, I fixed it easily enough.

Kitty
 
And said:
No it is not. When AT&T sold out to Comcast, they had us
run a small exe, presumably to reset mail servers
addresses & such. It also did a BUNCH of other stuff -
like reset my default home page to Comcast.net, etc.
Several little things. THEY don't own my box, I do!
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You should have read the small print before you ran the
Transition wizard. By running it, you explicitly gave them
permission to modify the settings of Outlook and Internet
Explorer.

Of course, those of us smart enough to avoid Outlook or Outlook
Express had to set our servers manually, so we didn't run the
damn fool Wizard.
 
29150 said:
Anyone know how to remove the IE browser Icon put in by some 'enlightened'
ISP's to identify themselves. Hate it, just hate it. ;)
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My answer is to just dump the ISP's software. Both my ISP's have
tried to dump loads of branded stuff on me that I happily deleted.

Configuration is often a pain, since they like to do stuff like rename
SMTP servers at inconvenient moments, but there is no ISP that
requires you to use their stuff all the time.

Even with AOL, I never used their browser and used Opera, and could
get news and mail from other sources with better software.
 
And said:
You are right, I deserve the traditional 20 lashes with the
wet noodle. BUT, there was no fine print. No warning at
all.

Outlook grows on ya,
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So does leperosy.
;-)
 
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