[curtiss]

If you're noticing it on other computers, it's most likely because the ISP provided the user with a special build of IE just for their ISP. When I used Earthlink, MSN, and Verizon, they all provided me with CD's that would automatically install IE (and in the old days, they would also automatically install dialers), and those builds of IE would say something like: Internet Explorer provided By Earthlink.

I'd be willing to bet - if you look at the loading icon on those computers - it's probably not the standard one either. Most of the time, when ISP's provide users with these custom-built IE's, they have custom loading icons, too. When I used the MSN build of IE, IIRC, the loading icon was a butterfly, instead of the rotating earth (it's been so long since I've used IE at all, I'm not 100% sure about that).

Anyway - you'd probably need to search the M$ web site for development tools that would allow you to alter IE.