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Name: Mofo Date: December 4, 2000 at 06:35:13 Pacific
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I've finally located the Registry key that makes IE5.5 use MSN as the search engine from the address bar. It's located at HKEY_USERS/default/software/Microsoft/Internet Explorer/URLSearchHooks. The problem is that to me, it's a jumble of numbers and letters. How, for instance could I get it to use Alta Vista instead?
Name: eric Date: December 4, 2000 at 07:10:53 Pacific
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Why are you playing around with registry keys? After you click on search, click on customize. From there you can pick whichever search engine you want as the default.
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Name: Mofo Date: December 4, 2000 at 11:37:18 Pacific
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Well, to be honest, I was annoyed that you only have a choice of one search engine when you use "? whatever you're seaching for" from the address bar (not just clicking on the Search button). Every time I do try to use the address bar method, the MSN search page comes up as "not found"! Uless I am missing something obvious, you can't define your own. Tweakui doesn't even let you do that any more. It's a bit sad that Microsoft is reducing the comsumers choice in this way.
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Response Number 3
Name: Mofo Date: December 4, 2000 at 11:37:57 Pacific
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Well, to be honest, I was annoyed that you only have a choice of one search engine when you use "? whatever you're searching for" from the address bar (not just clicking on the Search button). Every time I do try to use the address bar method, the MSN search page comes up as "not found"! Uless I am missing something obvious, you can't define your own. Tweakui doesn't even let you do that any more. It's a bit sad that Microsoft is reducing the consumers' choice in this way.
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Response Number 4
Name: EEGADS!!! Date: December 4, 2000 at 13:37:23 Pacific
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Why not just open the engine you want to use and add it to favourites? How hard can it be?
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Response Number 5
Name: Mofo Date: December 5, 2000 at 02:54:46 Pacific
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For years I've always used the address bar method of searching, and now I can't. It's annoying! Thanks for your replies though.
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Response Number 6
Name: Kathy Date: December 5, 2000 at 15:12:30 Pacific
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I know the feeling about the search defaults, I too found it annoying as they are not the ones I use by choice so I added Google to my Links folder (favourties) then added the "Links" to my toolbar now it's only a click away... perhaps you could do a similar thing with Alta Vista.
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