Change the default search engine in Internet Explorer 8
Hello,
I am using Internet explorer 8 for XP, by default it searches in the search box go to Live Search, and I want to use Google. How do I change it? Does anyone have the method to change Live Search to Google search.
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Old 22-04-2009
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Re: Change the default search engine in Internet Explorer 8
When you open IE8, in the search bar, there is a small arrow to the right of a magnifying glass. Clicked and then select "search for other search engines."A page will appear with several search engines, you will just choose google as default search engine
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Old 22-04-2009
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Re: Change the default search engine in Internet Explorer 8
Hi,
Nice but I can not change the default engine, which remains stubbornly on live search. In my view, is blocked because even if I choose another engine than Google, nothing moves.
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Old 22-04-2009
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Re: Change the default search engine in Internet Explorer 8
Here's how to add more search options to the IE 8 search bar.
Go to Tools and select Manage Add-ons.
Then select Search providers.
You'll see Microsoft Live Search and whichever options you chose during install. If that was Live Search, that's all you'll see.
Now click Find more search providers.
You'll get a list of various options. Press "Add to Internet Explorer" to add the providers you want. Each time you'll get the option to make it a default search provider, and include terms in the suggested search terms. If you don't see your favorite. Scroll to the bottom and click "Create your own search provider."
Now open a new tab, and enter the URL of the search engine you want to include. Search for the word TEST in all capital letters. Copy the URL of the search results page by highlighting it and pressing the "Windows" and "C" keys at the same time.
Now click back to the tab that says "crate your own search provider." Use the "Windows" and "V" keys to paste the URL you copied earlier into the box marked URL. Then give the search engine a name. And press Install Search Provider. If you want to make this your default search provider, check that box. Then press Add one more time.
Now when you type a keyword in the search box, icons for all the search engines you selected will show up. Just click on one with your mouse to search the keywords you typed in that engine.
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Old 23-06-2010
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Hi Muhammad ;
You have my sympathies. No body anywhere on the Internet has offered anyone else a working solution to the problem yet.
That is because they do not have the same system you and I have. XP pro, with AMD, ( You might have SP 2.0 because there is no SP3 for AMD and Media Center) and you might have just installed IE8 which has at least 3 major glitches.
This glitch you and I have will not allow the removal, or any change, to Live Search as an add on to IE8. It is a real nasty. It has existed for more than 2 years and Microsoft has done nothing to rectify it. And they have not posted a solution that works either. The reason may have to do with the order that Windows Live was installed with respect to other updates.
I installed the updates and IE8 all at the same time so I can track the error messages that cause problems with web pages. Microsoft does not subscribe to the current WWW3 standards so there are buckets of glitches.
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Old 23-06-2010
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Re: Change the default search engine in Internet Explorer 8
Actually we can change the search provider temporarily for a specific search or specify which search provider you prefer to be used by default by clicking the drop down menu of the Search Box and then Selecting ‘Manage Search Providers’. After that the ‘Manage Add-ons’ window opens and Selecting the Search Provider that you like to set as default here.
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Old 23-06-2010
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Re: Change the default search engine in Internet Explorer 8
Hi SuperCop;
You are 100% correct with respect to what should happen, but once you get the error message that states what is in quotes below, your IExplorer browser will not give you the option to change.
"A program on your computer has corrupted your default search provider setting for Internet Explorer.
Internet Explorer has reset this setting to your original search provider, Live Search (search.live.com).
Internet Explorer will now open Search Settings, where you can change this setting or install more search providers."
The last sentence above is what does not work. The second last sentence is true. The problem seems to be something to do with permissions in the location where "Live" resides.
Lots of suggestions have been made, but most users just give up or try to uninstall Microsoft Live.
I have tried editing the registry also, but the entries that other people recommend modifying do not exist in our systems "Microsoft Media Center".
I have tried updating with fixes using a .reg file intended to update the registry and make it function around the glitch, but Microsoft has modified the updates to Media Center so that the registry cannot be modified by anything but binary files or by hand. Not cool!
I will, however, continue trying because I have clients who would like to use IExplorer 8. Then they won't get hounded continuously to upgrade to it.
Keep trying please. There are lots of us looking for a solution.
