BT Yahoo Pt1

[sirius]

Is anybody on BT Yahoo option 3?

I put this on last night, and its REALLY bloated with stuff popping up everywhere, yahoo this, yahoo that, web based mails, yahoo bars, yahoo browser, its terrible!!!!!!!!

Is there any way to turn all this shite off once and for all??!!!.

I tried msconfig, but the things I wanna turn off arent on the list, and things that are there that annoy the hell out of me at the minute seem to be needed for the b@stard to work at all.

I dont want the Yahoo browser, and I dont want that annoying "bt communicator with Yahoo mssenger" thing on my tray and nagging me.

Before, I had a little broadband button, Id click it, it would verify my name and pass in about 0.25 seconds and just connect. No baggage, no shit. Now I find myself loaded with loads of alien yahoo bollox thats designed to peck my head, yahoo web accounts, the firewall asking whether to allow something or other all the time - cryptic stuff where you dont know if you should be allowing to connect, cos I dont want data being logged by yahoo or anybody else.

This is part 1 of a 2 part series lol.


Any tips gratefully recieved.

Sirius

[johny]

I'm not familiar with bt-yahoo or aol but thats what happens when big american firms cash in, same as aol. everything goes skyward.

[fugjostle]

You don't need to use the installation software that they give you. All you need to know is the username and password so that you can connect to them. I have a netgear router that auto-configures itself and just wants a username/password for the ISP. If you have to configure the router yourself you can usually just take the defaults.

Its my experience that the stuff provided by the ISP is dogshite usually and not needed.

Most of the stuff in the tray can be turned off by deleting it from the "startup" folder in the "start->programs" menu. Anything thats not there can be deleted from the registry under one of the many "run" keys.