Change My Computer Icon Name And IE Title Bar Name

[gunsmokingman]

Here is a HTA that changes the name of the My Computer Icon and the title that appears on the IE title bar

I Gunsmokingman give all users full permission to do what ever they want with this script.

Gsm_Rename.exe

[Mikka]

It's a neat and simple way to do it, thanks.

However, I'd really like to get rid of the mandatory hyphen between site title and the customizable text (“ ”), which may be set by your tool (cf. attached screenshot).

Do you know how this can be done?

[gunsmokingman]

Thanks

That strange I will look into this

Edited August 27, 2006 by gunsmokingman

[HyperHacker]

You'd probably have to replace another string. Most likely either "%s - %s" or "%1 - %2".

[gunsmokingman]

You'd probably have to replace another string. Most likely either "%s - %s" or "%1 - %2".

This is the code that changes the title bar, as you can see there is nothing in it like that.

objReg.SetStringValue HKEY_CURRENT_USER, strKeyPath, strValueName, strValue

[Mikka]

Many ways lead to Rome if you intend to change the “customizable” part of this text.

I found one for Resource Hacker altering browselc.dll.

However, it doesn't offer me a solution:

The title bar should merely show a site's headline and nothing else!

Making Window Title in HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Main a nullstring ("") will result in something like

Change My Computer Icon Name And IE Title Bar Name - MSFN Forums -

See the redundant string “ -” at the end?

How do I prevent it?

[Delprat]

Easy solution : use a font with no hyphen character as the titlebars font

Hard solution : too hard for me

[Mikka]

Easy solution : use a font with no hyphen character as the titlebars font

That would result in no hyphens being displayed at all, therefore "Change My Computer Icon Name And IE Title Bar Name MSFN Forums" instead of "Change My Computer Icon Name And IE Title Bar Name - MSFN Forums". That's not what I want.

"Hard solution"? C'mon Coders—go for it!

Edited April 6, 2006 by Mikka

[HyperHacker]

You'd probably have to replace another string. Most likely either "%s - %s" or "%1 - %2".

This is the code that changes the title bar, as you can see there is nothing in it like that.

objReg.SetStringValue HKEY_CURRENT_USER, strKeyPath, strValueName, strValue

I mean in iexplore.exe itself. Or one of the many DLLs used.