re: Question about 'Disable the Internet Connection Wizard' Tuesday, January 14, 2003 at 4:06 am Windows 2000 Annoyances Discussion Forum Posted by X. (5 messages posted) On Monday, October 14, 2002 at 9:36 pm, JimmytheGeek wrote: >I am running win2kpro/sp1-3 on various machines, IE 5.5/sp2 When I perform the registry >surgery on the default user, a new user still gets ICW. I think MS overwrites the >ICW key with a new one, to spam users for MSN the first time they log on. This obliterates >the key from the default profile. I just love this stuff. User settings from 100 >obfuscated places, hard-coded, and admin-hostile. The spam key is http://www.microsoft.com/isapi/redir.dll?prd=ie&ar=runonce&pver=5.5&plcid=0x0409 >Any clues on disabling this? Yes. Change the value of HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\TypedURLs\url1 to something useful. You might also want to take a look at HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Main and modify the values for Start Page, Default_Page_URL and First Home Page. Written in response to: re: Question about 'Disable the Internet Connection Wizard' (JimmytheGeek: Monday, October 14, 2002 at 9:36 pm) There are presently no replies to this message. All messages in this thread [show all] Question about 'Disable the Internet Connection Wizard' (Leigh: Thu, Dec 6, 2001, 8:09 am) re: Question about 'Disable the Internet Connection Wizard' (Mark H. Wood: Tue, Feb 12, 2002, 12:41 pm) re: Question about 'Disable the Internet Connection Wizard' (JimmytheGeek: Mon, Oct 14, 2002, 9:36 pm) re: Question about 'Disable the Internet Connection Wizard' (X.: Tue, Jan 14, 2003, 4:06 am) re: Question about 'Disable the Internet Connection Wizard' (Jeff Hatzinger: Fri, Jun 21, 2002, 12:16 pm) re: Question about 'Disable the Internet Connection Wizard' (jbrown: Tue, Feb 3, 2004, 11:44 am) re: Question about 'Disable the Internet Connection Wizard' (Aniruddha: Tue, Sep 17, 2002, 9:31 pm) re: Question about 'Disable the Internet Connection Wizard' (Hiram Lester: Tue, Mar 2, 2004, 12:03 pm) re: Question about 'Disable the Internet Connection Wizard' (ginnone: Fri, Nov 26, 2004, 12:01 pm) Reply or follow-up to this message Search this forum Start a new thread on a different subject Report abuse of the forum Return to the Windows 2000 Discussion Forum