Have you ever wanted to change Internet Explorer so it doesnt say "Microsoft Internet Explorer"? Well you have come to the right page! You may also be comming to this page to rid yourself of that annoying tag line on internet explorer such as "Provided by Microsoft Internet Explorer" or "Provided by America Onine"

This is a registry hack, so back up your registry before continuing!

The process:

There are two ways you can do this, the first, and easiest, is to download my VisualBasic .Net application and change the registry using the program. After you have downloaded the file to your hard drive, follow these steps:

  1. Run the program
  2. Choose one of the three buttons shown in the small window, you can either view the current title, set a new title, or remove any title that may have been previously set.
  3. Click on one of the buttons to perform the denoted operation.

Note: the program will most likely not work out of the box because it uses a built in .Net API to change the registry, your security settings will probably block it from modifying or even reading your registry. If you are unsure of weather this program does what I say it does, feel free to download the source code and compile it your self.

The second method requires manually editing the registry:

  1. Click on the "Start" button
  2. Click "Run... "
  3. Type in "regedit" and press enter
  4. Navigate to HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Main
  5. Create a new string value called "Window Title" and give it the value of what ever title you want IE to have
  6. Restart IE and take a gander at your new title.

How it works:

Internet Explorer reads the registry when it loads to set it's title bar because microsoft programmed it to do that.

This trick is most notably used with AOL (the early versions). When you installed AOL, it would create the key and the title would be "Microsoft Internet Explorer provided by America Online".