Comments on: Change the default search engine in IE via reigstry

By: BiTpUsHeR

BiTpUsHeR — Thu, 09 Sep 2010 11:02:10 +0000

Even better is to change the last line to:

“SortIndex”=dword:00000999

This prevents 2 Search Providers having the same sorting number.

By: BiTpUsHeR

BiTpUsHeR — Thu, 09 Sep 2010 10:27:49 +0000

I made an error in my latest post. This is the good one (please remove former post):

For Internet Explorer 8 you can make the following reg file to add Google.com as the default search provider:

Copy from here:

Windows Registry Editor Version 5.OO

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\SearchScopes]
“DefaultScope”=”{EFA27348-E879-4907-9783-B1D0956D3E33}”
“DownloadUpdates”=dword:00000001
“Version”=dword:00000002
“UpgradeTime”=hex:76,90,81,88,12,56,ca,01

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\SearchScopes\{EFA27348-E879-4907-9783-B1D0956D3E33}]
“DisplayName”=”Google.com”
“URL”=”http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&source=hp&q={searchTerms}&aq=f&oq=&aqi=g10″
“Codepage”=dword:0000fde9
“OSDFileURL”=”http://www.microsoft.com/windows/ie/searchguide/spbuilder.mspx?Encoding=UTF-8&Name=Google.com&URI=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.google.com%2Fsearch%3Fhl%3Den%26source%3Dhp%26q%3DTEST%26aq%3Df%26oq%3D%26aqi%3Dg10″
“FaviconURL”=”http://www.google.com/favicon.ico”
“FaviconPath”=”http://www.google.com/favicon.ico”
“SortIndex”=dword:00000001

By: David

David — Sun, 05 Sep 2010 13:50:29 +0000

Does not work in my version of IE.

By: adam

adam — Thu, 15 Apr 2010 16:13:03 +0000

The reg will not update ie8 settings, imports correctly.

By: Ron

Ron — Fri, 22 Jan 2010 18:38:03 +0000

startpage.com/do/metasearch.pl. Just as I thought. Internet Explorer “couldn’t” add it. A shame I’ll have to clean the registry of the tweak but it was worth a try. I’ll continue using an alternate browser for my searches. The Start Page search engine yields the same results without popups and should give me at least a modicum of privacy.

By: Ron

Ron — Fri, 22 Jan 2010 18:17:00 +0000

Almost all search engines are snoops and sell your e-mail address for a song but I chose “The Start Page” as my search engine. Never looked back at the others. By the way, why would I choose Microsoft’s recommendations? It may be easier but I’m sure Internet privacy is as bad as Google. Maybe I’m living on another planet but I detest spam and empty all but the cookies I want often during the day.

By: Aseem B

Aseem B — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 22:08:15 +0000

Is this really the only way to change the search provider in IE? I’m guessing that even in IE is locked down, there has to be an easier way.

By: Neil Armani

Neil Armani — Thu, 17 Dec 2009 03:45:05 +0000

The above code works as a registry change – you just need to remove the word “CODE” from the text.
Starting the REG file with the REGEDIT4 line should result in success – and yes, there are easier ways to do this, but this is one option.

By: Dean Davis

Dean Davis — Mon, 17 Aug 2009 21:39:06 +0000

Unfortunately, in my case, this didn’t work and I got and error saying that the file was not a scripted registry file and that it was not in the correct format even after following your instructions. I kept the quotes in when saving it too. But still, an easier method is shown in the diagram below:

http://nethighrise.com/images/_ieChangeSearch.jpg

If you click on the drop down arrow in the right side of the search box, it brings up this window. From there you can choose what search engine you want to use in IE.

Dean

By: Ron

Ron — Mon, 17 Aug 2009 13:37:33 +0000

Did exactly as instructed. Keep getting error:

Cannot import google.reg: The specified file is not a registry script. You can only import binary registry files from within the registry editor.

I’ve used the same procedure on other reg files. Please assist?