Monday, December 29, 2014

Change the default search engine in Internet Explorer

Microsoft has set its default search engine in internet explorer as MSN.Now you can change that search engine to any other you like.
>>Close internet explorer
>>Go to start>Run>type regedit to open registry editor
>>Navigate to following key:HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\SearchUrl
>>Change the value of string key name default to any one of the following values :
>>To specify Metacrawler as the default search page, change the default value to http://www.metacrawler.com/crawler?general=%s
>>To specify AltaVista as the default search page, change the default value to
http://www.altavista.com/cgi-bin/query?q=%s
>>To specify HotBot as the default search page, change the default value to
http://hotbot.com/?MT=%s
>>To specify Google as the default search page, change the default value to
http://www.google.com/keyword/%s

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