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Windows Internet Explorer - why?
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IE 7 Shows "Windows Internet Explorer"

You can change it by modifying the registry key:
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Main\Window Title

to anything you want.

Kurt


>Dragan,
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>Wher do you see it? IE6 shows 'Microsoft Internet Explorer' in the title, About dialog and in the messagebox
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>Microsoft Internet Explorer
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>Only the <B>, <CENTER>, <I>, <P>, <BR>, <FONT>, <A>, <U>, <LI>, <OL> and <UL> tags are allowed in Signature field.
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>OK   
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>>Just saw the pasted error text in message #1346602, and all of a sudden... why is it called "Windows Internet Explorer"? Is there a Mac and a Linux version? Hold it... let's see what the wikipedia has to say. There's a "Internet Explorer Macintosh Edition", but no "Internet Explorer Windows Edition", and sure enough no "Internet Explorer Linux Edition" nor "Linux Internet Explorer".
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>>So, why put the word Windows in front? I can imagine at least three reasons (out of the necessary seven).
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>>1) there are about twenty different internets, but there's only one "windows internet". This browser explores that one, ignoring the others.
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>>2) anything compiled under any of the Windowses should be called Windows Something; the name isn't copyrighted anyway (can't do that with a generic term).
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>>3) it never hurts to repeat the name of your flagship product, even at the point when nobody notices whether you did it or not.
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>>4) there are about gazillion internet explorers, but only one is made for a Windows; the others were never published, but that doesn't mean they shouldn't all have distinctive names.
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>>5)...
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