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by bradleyr

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About 8 months ago I signed up with a free ISP called "freewwweb." Downloaded their software and all the rest of it... They went out of business 3 months ago or so. Well, they left traces of their name "freewwweb" all over my comp. I have gottenrid of most of the junk, but one item. Every time I use the Internet Explorer to search the Web, the title bar (the blue bar on the very top), which should just say "Microsoft Internet Explorer" says "Microsoft Internet Explorer provided by freewwweb"!!!! Can someone please help me get rid of that crap?
Please, no dumb answers like "search for freewwweb in the find box...." and their like. I have looked in many places, even searched the whole registry to find how to correct this, but to noavail. :(

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by dmiles

Use regedit to delete reference to software,HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software,to delete key reference to freeweb.
Now to get the MSN back to the top you will have to reinstall IE5,by using the restore button,then click on internet options in the browser and on the Generan tab,at the address line make sure this line use the msn as default.Hope this helps.

by gregbiles

1. Start regedit.exe.
2. Navigate to HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Main.
3. From the Edit menu, select New, String value.
4. Type a new value name of "Window Title" and press Enter.
5. Double-click the newvalue, type the title you'd like to appear in place of the IE title (e.g., SavillTech Web), and click OK.
6. Close regedit.exe.

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