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Favorite Search Engine into Windows Vista

by Milo on April 11th, 2008

Greg from TechRepublic has a post about adding your favorite search engine to Vista’s Start Search. He demonstrates how to add Google search in it.

In an excerpt:

Fortunately, you can make Vista’s Start Search feature even more useful by adding Google to it. To do so, you’ll use the Local Group Policy Editor, which you can launch by pressing [Windows]+[R], typing gpedit.msc in the Run dialog box, and clicking OK. When you do, you’ll encounter a UAC and will need to respond accordingly.

Once the Local Group Policy Editor launches, drill down through the following folders in the tree:

User ConfigurationAdministrative TemplatesWindows ComponentsInstant Search

Continue reading here.

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1 opinion for Favorite Search Engine into Windows Vista

  • Gord
    Apr 16, 2008 at 11:23 pm

    Google is definately a good search engine for Vista,Mozilla Firefox seems to work well also.I have tried AVG’s search engine and it does not work well at all,there are also some problems with Yahoo.

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