Windows Search Guide in IE7

re: Windows Search Guide in IE7

Jane [MSFT] — Sat, 04 Nov 2006 02:10:53 GMT

@zi IE7 is compatible with Windows XP and Server 2003.

For more information, please go to www.microsoft.com/windows/ie/downloads/default.mspx

re: Windows Search Guide in IE7

Jon — Sat, 04 Nov 2006 01:41:54 GMT

Ok, I am obviously the only one having this problem. When i do a search and try to click on the particular link, IE7 redirects me, every time to some where els. Can someone help me out?

re: Windows Search Guide in IE7

Rob — Sat, 04 Nov 2006 01:21:41 GMT

I have followed the following document to create a custom adm with four perviders

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/918238

There is one typo [string] should be [strings]

But all i get when I add this is the last one of the four being added to IE

POLICY !!PopulateSearchProviderList

#if version >= 4

SUPPORTED !!SUPPORTED_IE7

#endif

EXPLAIN !!IE_Explain_PopulateSearchProviderList

KEYNAME "Software\Policies\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\SearchScopes"

VALUENAME Version

VALUEON NUMERIC 1

ACTIONLISTON

KEYNAME "Software\Policies\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\SearchScopes\{3A2F4E12-4D69-498D-AF31-E41FF7A0EC42}"

VALUENAME DisplayName VALUE "BBC"

VALUENAME URL VALUE "http://search.bbc.co.uk/cgi-bin/search/results.pl?scope=all&edition=d&q={searchTerms}&go=Search"

END ACTIONLISTON

VALUEON NUMERIC 1

ACTIONLISTON

KEYNAME "Software\Policies\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\SearchScopes\{64375051-D089-423A-BE58-3FF1F5E52935}"

VALUENAME DisplayName VALUE "Open Directory"

VALUENAME URL VALUE "http://search.dmoz.org/cgi-bin/search?search={searchTerms}"

END ACTIONLISTON

VALUEON NUMERIC 1

ACTIONLISTON

KEYNAME "Software\Policies\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\SearchScopes\{45A2CEC9-BF83-40A4-869F-D4E69D6FE1E6}"

VALUENAME DisplayName VALUE "Wikipedia (English)"

VALUENAME URL VALUE "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/{searchTerms}"

END ACTIONLISTON

VALUEON NUMERIC 1

ACTIONLISTON

KEYNAME "Software\Policies\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\SearchScopes\{6A24DD49-0903-40A7-837B-3A84AAB0FFFA}"

VALUENAME DisplayName VALUE "Google UK"

VALUENAME URL VALUE "http://www.google.co.uk/search?hl=en&q={searchTerms}&btnG=Search&meta="

END ACTIONLISTON

END POLICY

Could you explane what im not quite understanding from the documentation to get this to work

Thanks

Rob

re: Windows Search Guide in IE7

david — Thu, 02 Nov 2006 11:53:32 GMT

I want an option that removes the live search box. I do not want it to come up at all. Also, can you let me move the address bar down to the “file edit view” row. It is easy to do this in ie6.

Thanks,

david

re: Windows Search Guide in IE7

zi — Wed, 01 Nov 2006 22:43:26 GMT

can ie7 be used with (w2k) windows 2000?

re: Windows Search Guide in IE7

Grisu — Tue, 31 Oct 2006 11:15:42 GMT

What I miss in this feature is to configure the Search.

E.g. at the Google Search, I am led to google.de instead of google.at as I leave in Austria.

I would like to have the ability to customize my searches:

URL, number of results a.s.o. would be nice to have.

Best regards

re: Windows Search Guide in IE7

Natalie — Mon, 30 Oct 2006 18:19:20 GMT

I have the same problem with always starting at IE7 start page. I have been through all the steps you told Katrina, over and over again. I selected my search engine,etc. but still get the same start page. I do not want to go through this every time I use ie7. How can I stop it?

re: Windows Search Guide in IE7

Chris Hester — Thu, 26 Oct 2006 16:36:35 GMT

I could not add a new default search engine when I installed IE7 at home. I got a JavaScript error, and the form stopped me from entering any text. I have documented this, along with other niggles you guys might want to look at, in my post called <a href="http://www.designdetector.com/link/to/installing-ie7-final/">Installing IE7 Final</a>.

re: Windows Search Guide in IE7

Eric A. Duncan — Wed, 25 Oct 2006 21:31:38 GMT

For many many years I've been one to first edit the registry to get my "prefix" search working in IE. For example, "g Xbox 360" would immediately redirect to google and search for Xbox 360.

Then TweakUI for Xp came out, and made it even easier (a nice GUI to do it).

The cool thing about IE7 is that it will search without having the prefix. You don't have to enter anything in the SearchBox. Instead, enter at least two words in the URL area and hit Enter. IE7 will use your default provider and search for those terms.

re: Windows Search Guide in IE7

Jane [MSFT] — Wed, 25 Oct 2006 20:30:19 GMT

@ Katarina

Try going through the steps on the IE7 Welcome page (selecting the search provider, continuing a tour or not).

After you complete all the steps, the home page should load every time you open a new instance of IE.