Want to add a personal touch to your browser? This guide will show you how to change the default text in Internet Explorer’s title bar to anything you want. So you could have it read – John’s Crappy Internet Browser.

Disclaimer: Warning Serious problems might occur if you modify the registry incorrectly by using Registry Editor or by using another method. Modify the registry at your own risk, Every effort has been made to ensure that registry edit instructions are correct and safe. FixMyXP cannot be held responsible for any damage done to your system by using this guide.

Before beginning this guide, please do this

Click

then

Type regedit then click

Navigate to the following key:

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\InternetExplorer\Main

Find the string “Window Title” and double click it and enter whatever you want on the title bar of Internet Explorer, so for example John’s Crappy Internet Browser (note, if there is no Window Title String, create it by Right Clicking on the right hand window, then select New then String, then name the string Window Title)

Reboot your computer

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IE title bar bug
written by i_love_my_engineer, April 26, 2007

hello..

i have internet explorer as my browser.. but then, when i run my IE, the title bar contains -title of the page- "HELLO WORLD I AM VB" message instead of having the string -title of the page- "MICROSOFT INTERNET EXPLORER". i tried editing that string in regedit>title bar but still after i log off and start using the browser again.. the same thing happens.. can anyone help?

Thank you
written by Abdod, March 05, 2007

Thank you very much I searched about that long

Brilliant!
written by Gearóid, January 15, 2007

Haha people are going to get a shock next time they use IE on this computer ... ... thanks!

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