I just installed Win 2000 Professional.  As I remember, I never did find a way to get rid of the horrible globe icon at the lower right which is constantly trying to talk me into signing up for automatic updates for Windows, or to get rid of the horrible text bubble it shoots when I boot.  How do I get rid of them?  (I seem to remember seeing somewhere that it involves hand editing the registry, but I'm willing to do that to kill the monster.)

Thanks.
David.

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