RE: Windows Desktop Search Default is Ask.com - Can't get rid of i

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Decebal,

Deleting the AskPBar folder did not fix the problem.
Ask still shows up as the default search engine.
Where can I find that pesky .dll and how do I disable/remove/delete it safely?

Steve

"decebal mihailescu" wrote:



"Dreanmachine" wrote:

Howdy,

For some reason my default search from the Windows Desktop Search now always
goes to Ask.com. I have played around with the default search options and
Google is set as my default (which is what I want) However, it still always
goes to Ask.com. when I search the web from the desktop search option. I
don't see how to get rid of this. Any help? It is annoying. Thanks in
advance!
I had the same pesky problem in IE6.
Here is how got rid of it.
1.Close all IE instances.
2.Uninstall everything that resembles ask.com or ask something.
3.check for a folder likely to be called C:\Program Files\AskSearch\bin or
some similar name
4.open a command prompt and cd C:\Program Files\AskSearch\bin
5.uregister that evil dll: regsvr32 /u defaultsearch.dll
6.It should succeed, and if you want you can delete/rename it.
7.restart IE6 and check it out for some sites wit no www prefix
It worked for me on Win XP & IE6.
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