Starting Win 2000 Explorer, system tries to install Earthlink Popup Blocker

[L Mehl]

Hello --

The Earthlink app is on an external drive that died.

Every time I start Windows Explorer, the system tries to install it, and
cannot, of course, find it. It also starts when I click Spelling in Outlook
Express, as I did in spell-checking this message.

This confirms to me that there is a connection between Win Explorer and IE
(wasn't this the subject of the recent Microsoft trial?).

Can anyone tell me how to:

1 - configure IE not to try to run the blocker
2 - sever the connection between Win Explorer and IE?

Thanks for any help.

Larry Mehl
mehl_at_cyvest.com

 

[Lanwench [MVP - Exchange]]

Hello --

The Earthlink app is on an external drive that died.

Every time I start Windows Explorer,

I presume you mean Internet Explorer?

the system tries to install it,
and cannot, of course, find it. It also starts when I click Spelling
in Outlook Express, as I did in spell-checking this message.

This confirms to me that there is a connection between Win Explorer
and IE (wasn't this the subject of the recent Microsoft trial?).

No - it concerned the bundling of IE into the operating system.

Can anyone tell me how to:

1 - configure IE not to try to run the blocker
2 - sever the connection between Win Explorer and IE?

Can you reinstall and uninstall the Earthlink software? Might be the easiest
route.

 

[L Mehl]

The problem occurs with Windows Explorer.

It also occurs with IE, but I simply use other browsers to avoid the
nuisance of the installer appearing every time I start an instance of IE).

It and IE are related by a file, the name of which I can't remember.

I would uninstall and reinstall the Earthlink software if it weren't on an
external drive that died.

Does anyone know how to tell WinExplorer/IE tot to try to install ELNK's
popup blocker?

L Mehl


"Lanwench [MVP - Exchange]"