Got WinXP? Do me a favor!

[mendhak]

I screwed up one of my registry keys in an attempt to make google my default search provider.


1. Navigate to the following registry key:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Search

And give me the values for:

CustomizeAssistant
SearchAssistant




2. Do you know what registry keys have to be modified so that I don't keep seeing that ugly msn search all the time?



TIA

[morrowasted]

im not entirely sure what you mean, im not too smart, but this is what mine says:



oh,and I dont use IE so i dont know what my default whatever is

[mendhak]

OK, thanks for that. Although I'm sure it wasn't websearch, but I figure it can't do any harm.

If anyone does know the answer to #2...

[Memnoch1207]

Here's a picture of mine..IE 6.0

[mendhak]

Originally posted by Memnoch1207
Here's a picture of mine..IE 6.0

Yes, that's the one!



In IE6, click on the "Search" button. It'll open up a sidebar with one of MSNs own pages. Is there anyway I can replace that <-- particular page with a page of my own?

[Memnoch1207]

with those settings...when I click my search button...my search engine is Google...not MSN.

[Protocol]

And what line do you need to add to make google seach?

Or do you just put http://www.google.com and it searches automatically?

[mendhak]

Originally posted by Memnoch1207
with those settings...when I click my search button...my search engine is Google...not MSN.

I'm jealous, and curious... how?

I click on Search, then click on the Customize button, and I see "google" nowhere on the list.

[manavo11]

Hey Memnoch, do a search in your registry for Google... Maybe you'll find something for froggy...

[Memnoch1207]

here are my search results

HKEY_USERS\.DEFAULT\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Main
Name: Start Page ----- Value: http://www.google.com/

HKEY_USERS\.DEFAULT\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\TypedURLs
Name: url1 ---- Value: www.google.com
Name: url2 ---- Value: google.com
Name: url3 ---- Value: http://google.com

[Pirate]

Here's multiple options .
http://download.com.com/3120-20-0.ht...search=+Go%21+

[dis1411]

go to google.com and look into the google toolbar

if you dont like it you can at least install it and it will make google the defalt search

[manavo11]

Originally posted by dis1411
go to google.com and look into the google toolbar

if you dont like it you can at least install it and it will make google the defalt search

And then look and see what changed in the registry and tell us so we know

[dis1411]

my reg settings

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Main\Search Bar = http://www.google.com/ie

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Main\Search Page = http://www.google.com


HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Search\CustomizeSearch = http://ie.search.msn.com/{SUB_RFC1766}/srchasst/srchcust.htm

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Search\SearchAssistant = http://www.google.com/ie

[mendhak]

Originally posted by dis1411



HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Search\CustomizeSearch = http://ie.search.msn.com/{SUB_RFC1766}/srchasst/srchcust.htm

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Search\SearchAssistant = http://www.google.com/ie

This did it. Make the above changes, and click on the "Search" button. Click on Customize, and in the window that pops up, choose "Use Search Assistant"

Don't worry about changing the values below. Restart IE, and Google should be there assisting you with your searches.

Thanks everyone

[mendhak]

You can also make it the default URL Searcher (when you type in a wrong URL while looking for those porn sites) by using this reg file:

http://www.google.com/google.reg

(right click, save target as, thank mendhak)