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DJJ

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Why does the blue bar at the top say "test" now?
« on: September 24, 2007, 05:45:29 PM »
Lately, the blue Windows bar across the top of the active window says "- test" after the window title. For example, as I type this, it says "Start new topic - test". In the main forum page, it says, "The Round Table - test". What gives? Have I been hijacked or something? I recently disabled some of the startup applications, too. Any connection?

Edit - this is only on Internet Explorer windows.
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Re: Why does the blue bar at the top say "test" now?
« Reply #1 on: September 24, 2007, 06:18:02 PM »
It's a test of the government's new system to track your every move online.
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Re: Why does the blue bar at the top say "test" now?
« Reply #2 on: September 25, 2007, 03:49:49 AM »
it is a test.
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Re: Why does the blue bar at the top say "test" now?
« Reply #3 on: September 25, 2007, 05:26:52 AM »
I've not seen that.

Are you still seeing it?

Can you do a screen capture and e-mail it to me if you're still seeing it?

No one has said anything about messing around in the interface.
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Re: Why does the blue bar at the top say "test" now?
« Reply #4 on: September 25, 2007, 06:13:08 AM »
Does it come up regardless of the webpage you visit?  You can customize IE via the registry to append - <some message> to each title.  Mine says - Microsoft Internet Explorer Provided by <my company>.

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Re: Why does the blue bar at the top say "test" now?
« Reply #5 on: September 25, 2007, 06:15:30 AM »
OH! OK, wrong thing I was looking at.

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Re: Why does the blue bar at the top say "test" now?
« Reply #6 on: September 25, 2007, 02:23:55 PM »
Quote from: mtnbkr on September 25, 2007, 05:13:08 AM
Does it come up regardless of the webpage you visit?  You can customize IE via the registry to append - <some message> to each title.  Mine says - Microsoft Internet Explorer Provided by <my company>.

Chris

Yes, every web page, but I don't remember telling it to do that. I don't know how to tell it to do that.
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Re: Why does the blue bar at the top say "test" now?
« Reply #7 on: September 26, 2007, 05:03:08 AM »
Have you installed anything lately, maybe a browser enhancement of some sort?  I know installing AOL will rebrand your Internet Explorer to "Provided by AOL" or some such.

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Re: Why does the blue bar at the top say "test" now?
« Reply #8 on: September 26, 2007, 04:50:01 PM »
Not that I know of, hence my question about being hijacked.
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Re: Why does the blue bar at the top say "test" now?
« Reply #9 on: September 27, 2007, 03:42:55 PM »
Okay, I've searched through the registry and found the command for "window title", and it had "test" in the value field. I deleted it, and "test" is gone, but the hyphen is still there. Any thoughts? Any thoughts as to how it could've gotten there in the first place?
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Re: Why does the blue bar at the top say "test" now?
« Reply #10 on: September 27, 2007, 04:55:19 PM »
The hyphen probably just dashed into your PC.
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Re: Why does the blue bar at the top say "test" now?
« Reply #11 on: September 27, 2007, 05:15:21 PM »
Right...

I found if I delete the entire "window title" file, it goes back to the way it used to be. I still don't know what happened.
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