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" <leaves1@carolina To: <guispeak@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> .rr.com> cc: Sent by: Subject: [guispeak] Re: SBC Yahoo! DSL Accessibility guispeak@freelist s.org 01/24/2005 11:44 AM 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. 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