[guispeak] Re: SBC Yahoo! DSL Accessibility
- From: "david poehlman" <david.poehlman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <guispeak@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 24 Jan 2005 12:23:38 -0500
On the start menu, there is set program access and defaults. if you choose
windows defaults, they will over ride.
Johnnie Apple Seed
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From: <gerald.g.weichbrodt@xxxxxx>
To: <guispeak@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Monday, January 24, 2005 11:55 AM
Subject: [guispeak] Re: SBC Yahoo! DSL Accessibility
Great minds think alike, but the closest I could come to selecting a
specific browser in the Internet options was that checkmark that says
something like "Internet Explorer should check if it's the default
browser." I said, "Yes, please do," but I never saw the message I have at
times seen in the past where IE would tell me it wasn't currently my
default browser and would I like it to fix that. I did manage to force
TaxAct to use IE instead of the Yahoo thing, but that was apparently just
in TaxAct itself. Oh, and, yes, you're right, they did hijack the home
page that came up when I launched Internet Explorer. That little change
was easily reversed, however <grin>.
Thanks,
Jerry
"Laura Eaves"
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Please respond to
guispeak
Hey, congratulations -- but I have one solution to the hijacking of your
browser -- you can easily get the old settings back by going to the control
panel to internet options and going to the programs tab and finding and
updating the programs you want used as the defaults for browsing and email
and whatever else is there.
In fact, you might like to go to the other tabs in the internet options
dialog, which is huge, and reset or modify whatever you like.
In particular, on the general tab at the very top is the specification of
the home page (the first page displayed when you open the browser).
yahoo probably hijacked that too -- which you may not mind, but if you had
it previously set to google.com or your own home page or something else,
that's where you can change it back.
Good luck.
--le
----- Original Message -----
From: <gerald.g.weichbrodt@xxxxxx>
To: <guispeak@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Monday, January 24, 2005 9:19 AM
Subject: [guispeak] Re: SBC Yahoo! DSL Accessibility
Hi folks,
I'm going to have to admit that I sort of punted on this one. I have
sighted family members around, and we worked together to install the
software. Good thing, too, because there was tons of stuff written on the
screen in the way of license agreement verbage.
OK, so we cut to the chase and say that the software's installed, the
modem's on, and we're ready to go. The final result is terrific, based on
a relatively short time of trying it. As well, I have used various
"standard" Internet applications over the connection as well as America On
Line, and everything works very fast and effectively. One little annoyance
is that the Yahoos at Yahoo! seem to have hijacked my browser, and they did
so in such a way that Internet Explorer didn't offer to take the default
browser role back when I launched it even though I had the checkmark
checked to have Internet Explorer check if it was the default browser. I'm
currently fiddling around in the file extension assignments available in
Windows Explorer with the hope that I can manually force Internet Explorer
to take charge of everything again. Even so, I'm sufficiently convinced
that Internet Explorer works fine over the connection that this business of
which browser is "top dog" is just a pesky annoyance I can deal with in the
long run--even if it means uninstalling SBC's nasty little creation.
Oh yes, I should mention that the SBC/Yahoo browser is *not* a chile of
Internet Explorer. So far as I can tell, it's just a big accessibility
pain and not worth messing with. They also installed Yahoo! Messenger, and
I have no idea whether it's anything like accessible or not. I don't know
anybody who uses it, so, if it proves inaccessible, I'm probably not going
to lose sleep over it but will just chuck the thing anf free up some more
disk space.
In summary: If you just ignore the inaccessible software that tends to be
plunked on your computer, the actual service seems very effective. I
downloaded the 19 megabyte Adobe Acrobat Reader 7.0 in a matter of seconds,
and I don't usually get that good throughput at work over our gonzo
high-speed connection! I also *really* like being able to use the Internet
without tying up the phone line. We've already had both a voice call going
on and Internet activity with no problem keeping both functions separated
and functioning. It's fascinating to plug a telephone into the unfiltered
phone connection, listen to all the DSL modem racket, and then plug in a
filter and have all that noise just disappear.
Regards,
Jerry
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