# IE animated globe... I want it back!

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ie-animated-globe-i-want-it-back/239889>\
**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [April 14, 2004, 1:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ie-animated-globe-i-want-it-back/239889 "2004-04-14T01:10:31Z")\
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**Author:** ![Astroboy14](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/df705f/32.png) [@Astroboy14](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Astroboy14)\
**Post date:** [April 14, 2004, 1:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ie-animated-globe-i-want-it-back/239889/1 "2004-04-14T01:10:31Z")

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I have a laptop computer running Win2K Pro… it’s a great little computer, with one annoying thing that I can’t figure out:

The company that manufactured the comp hijacked the top bar in Internet Explorer and replaced the little spinning globe icon (the one that spins when you click on a link before the new website comes up) with their own static icon. This is annoying as I’m quite used to glancing at that spinning icon to insure that I actually have clicked a link before I switch windows while I surf. An excellent example of why I do this is the SDMB; I click on a thread I want to read, and sometimes it takes 2 or 3 minutes for the thread to open up, in the meantime I click over to CNN, etc. and do some reading. I hate it when I come back to the SDMB and find that I missed the link due to faulty clicking… so I glance at the spinning icon to see that, in fact, IE is working on getting to the thread before I switch windows…

Now, I’m pretty sure that the new, static, icon the the computer company put there resides in the registry somewhere, so 2 questions for those more enlightened than me:

1. Where can I find the static icon in the registry (assuming that I’m correct in my guess as to location)?
2. How can I replace it with an animated icon (doesn’t have to be the regular IE icon… in fact, I can make my own little animation to stick in there!)?

Thanks in advance all! 😉

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**Author:** ![DarrenS](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/977dab/32.png) [@DarrenS](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DarrenS)\
**Post date:** [April 14, 2004, 1:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ie-animated-globe-i-want-it-back/239889/2 "2004-04-14T01:54:10Z")

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Try something like this:

[http://www.scotsnewsletter.com/best\_of/ispbrnds.htm](http://www.scotsnewsletter.com/best_of/ispbrnds.htm)

You can Google for “remove Internet Explorer branding”.

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**Author:** ![yoyodyne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/a9a28c/32.png) [@yoyodyne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/yoyodyne)\
**Post date:** [April 14, 2004, 1:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ie-animated-globe-i-want-it-back/239889/3 "2004-04-14T01:56:47Z")

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[http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;176713](http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;176713)

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**Author:** ![Astroboy14](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/df705f/32.png) [@Astroboy14](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Astroboy14)\
**Post date:** [April 14, 2004, 3:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ie-animated-globe-i-want-it-back/239889/4 "2004-04-14T03:00:26Z")

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Perfect!

Thank you, guys.

I’ll try that after dinner, and see if it works!