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Remove the “Download Windows Search” Prompt in Internet Explorer 8 Address Bar

No comments October 15th, 2009 admin

Issue: You may see “Download Windows Search to improve history and favorites results” message while entering the website address as shown in the below screen shot:

Cause: This is not an issue and is by design. You may proceed with the download and install Windows Search. If you don’t want to install the Windows search, you may proceed with the solution provided below. However, when you install the Windows search, it will remove the prompt in a week days.

Solution: To remove the “Download Windows Search” Prompt, you have to modify the registry. The following steps will guide you modifying the same.

However, it is always recommended to backup the Windows registry before making any changes as incorrect changes may cause stability to the Operating system and you may need to reinstall the Operating system.

Click Start, type Regedit.exe and press ENTER
Navigate to the following registry path:

HKEY_CURRENT_USER Software Microsoft Internet Explorer Main WindowsSearch

Right-click in the right pane and select New option.
Select REG_DWORD value and name it as ShowPrompt
Click OK which will default the value to 0.
Exit the Registry Editor.
Reopen Internet Explorer.

If you still see the prompt, perform the following:

Go to registry editor and navigate to the following path:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE SOFTWARE Microsoft Windows Search

Right-click in the right pane and select New.
Create a new String (REG_SZ) value and name it as CurrentVersion
Double-click CurrentVersion and set its value data to 4.0
Exit the Registry Editor.
Reopen the Internet Explorer.

This will resolve the issue.

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Set Default homepage for InPrivate Browsing

No comments September 21st, 2009 admin

Description: I myself like the new IE8 feature, InPrivate Browsing. However, InPrivate browsing doesn’t inherit the properties of the default browsing and doesn’t open my default home page. I am baffled to see About:InPrivate page when I open a new session.

The following tweak helped me to set a default home page for InPrivate browsing too

Procedure:

1. Click Start, Run.
2. Type regedit.
3. Navigate to the below registry key:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\AboutURLs

4. Double-click InPrivate option and set your favorite URL.

5. Exit the registry.

For those who are not good at registry modification, I’ve created a .reg file. You may download and run the .reg file [Download Link]. However, this defaults to www.ietips.net website. If you wish to change it, right-click the .reg file and change the URL with the URL you wish to change.

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