Go Away Internet Exploer

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I want to delete the Internet Explorer and Outlook Express icons from my quick launch toolbar. However wherenver I delete them, the next timeI log on they are re created.

I'm using Windows 2k, IE6. Does anyone know how to remove them permanentley?

[mendhak]

If they reappear, this means that something in your startup list is recreating them. Check your startup list.

If you can't (Win2K doesn't have msconfig, right?) then get filemon and see which process has just created those icons again, and obliterate it.

[dglienna]

1 post said to drag them to the recycle bin, but I don't know if that will work.
the other one said to look here:

WINDOWS\System32\Config\Systemprofile\Application Data\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Quick Launch

also, there should be a .SCF text file that stores the info.

[alex_read]

It sounds like you could have the "NoSaveSettings" registry entry. This prevents windows from saving any changes when your shut it down. Follow the registry keys HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies or Policies\Explorer & if you find a key of "NoSaveSettings", delete it & restart windows. Then try & delete the quick launch bar.

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Originally posted by alex_read
It sounds like you could have the "NoSaveSettings" registry entry. This prevents windows from saving any changes when your shut it down. Follow the registry keys HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies or Policies\Explorer & if you find a key of "NoSaveSettings", delete it & restart windows. Then try & delete the quick launch bar.
Thanks, I'll have a look into that when I get home. It only seems to be affecting this one computer. For the time being I have logon script which deletes it at logon. However, it is created after it runs, so only works sometimes; as soon as it realises I've deleted it, it must set a flag in the registry to recreate it at the next logon. I am yet to find that registry value.

It wouldn't bother me, but I've set Firefox as the default browser and if my mother sees the IE icon she'll click that. As she can never remember site addresses, she'll bookmark them and gets mad if they arn't there.