Favorite Search Engine into Windows Vista
April 11, 2008 by Milo Riano
Filed under Computers
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.
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.
The best search engine that I ever found (group search engine, really) was Copernic. It has never been updated to work with Vista though.
My OS is Vista, and recently when Using any search engine to find whatever; the address window opens up, and as I try to click on the addresses the whole thing freezes! and I have to perform Ctrl+Alt+Delete to be able to get out of the search page. Can somebody tell me if I am missing something? Because this wasn’t happening till two weeks ago. Your input is appreciated.