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Re: Upgrading IE5 from Freeserve CD

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From: CypherX
Date: Sun, 14 Jul 2002 23:10
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"Mark" <markmat@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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> I should have known it was a bad idea!
>
> Since I've had various Freeserve CD's "helpfully" provided in various
> mailings I thought I'd save my self some download time and use one to
> upgrade the version of Internet Explorer on my machine.
>
> Of course now everytime I start IE it thinks it's in the middle of a
> Freeserve account setup and tries to send me off to sign up!
> Can anyone tell me what I need to change/delete to get rid of this? Is
> it in the registry somewhere?
>


Just delete the "Signup" folder in c:\program files/internet explorer.

CypherX
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From: "CypherX" <cypherx@nym.alias.net>
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Subject: Re: Upgrading IE5 from Freeserve CD
Date: Mon, 15 Jul 2002 00:10:13 +0100
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