Change search engine

bignred05

Can someone tell me how to change my search engine
from MSN to Google

Thanks

kat21

in internet explorer click on tools, look for internet options then you will have a space with a window called home page, you could write googles webpage in there or alternatively, already be on google and then select the option to use current page click on apply to set your choice
kat21

bignred05

Forgive me
But I thought the way you are stating is to change your home page

I want to change my preferred search engine not my home page

Thanks your assistance

Chippy_Minton

Install Google Toolbar - http://toolbar.google.com/

kat21

the only way you can do that is through internet explorer version seven beta
that lets you set several search engines. there are software applications such as hijack this that will let you change the default search engine, or autopatcher, the easiest way is just to change the home page but hijack this will let you change the operating system default search engine from msn to google. or you could try internet explorer seven beta, which I am currently using there is a tab that lets you change the default msn search to several
kat21
or look here
http://websearch.about.com/od/searchtipoftheday/qt/qt429.htm
have a look at the graphic here on this webpage
http://www.microsoft.com/windows/ie/community/columns/ie7_basics.mspx

albertross_2

start, run regedit

goto

hklm\software\microsoft\internet explorer\main
and
hkcu\software\microsoft\internet explorer\main

you will see your current search setting on the right, double click and change it.

Be careful not to delete anything.

sheedatali

By default there is no such thing default search engine in IE 6. If you are using beta version of IE = 7 . Then you can just left click in that little area and it should show other alternatives that you can choose are default search engine. If you are using a toolbar as the previous poster mentioned then it should default to the google only if you are using google toolbar.

Chippy_Minton

sheedatali wrote:

By default there is no such thing default search engine in IE 6.

Click Search button and it opens search box on LHS, which defaults to MSN.

sheedatali

Chippy_Minton wrote:

Click Search button and it opens search box on LHS, which defaults to MSN.

Ahh... what do i know, never used that but then again i use FF mostly, IE is my last option. Thanks for pointing out.