Branding in IE bar

"Windows Internet Explorer - provided by xxx" situations....

In all current versions of Internet Explorer (including 8), you control that text through an entry in the Registry. Click Start, click Run, enter regedit. Navigate to the key HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Main. In the right-hand pane find a value named Window Title. Double-click it to change its data. Either delete the text entirely or change it to something that pleases you. If you don't see the value, right-click in the right-hand pane and choose New | String Value. Name the value Window Title and then proceed as above.