How do I remove Windows Live Search box?
Posted by webstuffscan on January 22nd, 2008
I had recently installed Windows Live Messenger on my pc at work. Along with it came a pesky toolbar addon called Windows Live Search. This gets attached after the URL box and is irritating to say the least. I prefer to use Google and I don’t need a toolbar!
I thought it should be pretty easy to remove Windows Live Search. It turned out that there is no direct option to remove Live Search! What you can do is to change the search provider. But hey! I don’t want a freaking toolbar!
After a bit of google research, I came to know that there is a registry hack to prevent the Windows live search textbar. Open up the regedit and look for the key HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\InfoDelivery\Restrictions. Sometimes you may see path only up to Microsoft. In that case add the path Internet Explorer\InfoDelivery\Restrictions. Then add a DWORD under Restrictions named NoSearchBox and set its value to 1.
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March 14th, 2008 at 5:31 am
how do i add the path Internet Explorer\InfoDelivery\Restrictions. and how do i ondo an accental change, i dont know the original value. path is HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\DefaultREG_SZ (value not set) New Value #1 REG-EXPAND-SZ name was changed New Value #1 will this affect anything and what is the origional name thanks pat