Sunday, April 29, 2007

Using google as default search engine in ie

To make Google default search page set IE to search using Google
as default. Open the registry and navigate to
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\InternetExplorer\Main; change the value of ‘Use Search Asst’ to‘no’; change the value of ‘Search Page’ to ‘http://www.google.com’; change the value of ‘Search Bar’ to ‘http://www.google. com/ie’. Next, go to HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\InternetExplorer\
Search URL and change the values of ‘Default’ to ‘http://www.google.com/keyword/%s’
and ‘provider’ to ‘gogl’. Thengo to the HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft
\Internet Explorer\Search key and modify the ‘Search Assistant’ entry’svalue to ‘http://www.google.com/ie’.

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