Re: IE Search Hijacked By MSN

anonymous_at_discussions.microsoft.com
Date: 09/02/04


Date: Wed, 1 Sep 2004 21:09:48 -0700

No, I do not, though I will try it to see if it forces MSN
to leave.

>-----Original Message-----
>Do you have the Google toolbar installed? It has an
option to set Google as
>the search engine.
>
>"Tim Palumbo" <sephy_kid@epix.net> wrote in message
>news:489001c49096$1911fd40$a601280a@phx.gbl...
>> In IE 6, when I type a query in the address bar, using
>> certain tools (Like x-teq setup) had it so it would
>> automatically use Google as my default search engine.
>> However, recently MSN Search has been taking its place,
>> and I cannot find a way to get it back. I used all sorts
>> of tools to set Google as the default searcher in the
>> registry and ran spybot and the like to make sure
nothing
>> of the such was causing MSN to do this. No progress as
of
>> yet...any ideas? Oh yea, I do not have SP2 just so you
>> know where I'm standing, and I'm using XP Pro
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