An interesting question. I had the same problem with AT&T. They had their
own cheesy spinning icon. I think I finally got rid of it by reinstalling
Windows, which is actually good to do every year or two to clean out a lot
of junk that gets picked up.
Technically you can't uninstall Internet Explorer since its supposedly part
of the operating system. Upgrading keeps the same registry settings intact
which is likely where the problem lies.
But I believe this will fix it - either use the below as a reg file and
import it or change the registry entries manually:
--------
REGEDIT4
;
; Registry Update File to remove IE Branding
;
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\INTERNET EXPLORER\MAIN]
"BigBitmap"="Default"
"SmallBitmap"="Default"
"Window Title"="Microsoft Internet Explorer"
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Toolbar]
"BrandBitmap"="Default"
"SmBrandBitmap"="Default"
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David Councill
MCSE
67 BGT
72 B
At 10:01 AM 4/11/2003 -0400, Chris Thompson wrote:
>James Nazarian (jhn3@uakron.edu) wrote:
> > does anyone know what the name of the icon in the corner of explorer
> is, the
> > one with the globe that turns when it is thinking? I ditched the aol
> > version of exploder for ver6 sp1 but it carried over the aol logo in the
> > corner. It is driving me crazy and I am on a quest to hack it out of the
> > registry but I can't find it so far. Any help would be appreciated.
>
>That little beastie is known as either a Spinner or a Throbber, depending
>on who you ask. I can't help you with registry entries though. Did you do a
>complete uninstall of AOL? usually an uninstall can remove spurious
>registry entries.
>
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