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Add Any Search Engine To Windows Start Menu

Posted August 7, 2008 – 6:01 pm in: Registry tweaks, Vista Tweaks, Windows 7, Windows 7 Guides

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Well, you have only MSN search option in your Vista Start Menu and need to open Firefox or IE to open any other search engine or website. Wait..Wait..I have just found a cool solution to this problem. You can add Yahoo or Google search(or any site) to your Start Menu easily. All you need to do is just edit few things in Group Policy. So, you can add Yahoo Search(or any site) to your Vista Start Menu as follows:
(I am taking Yahoo as example)

1.As usual, type “gpedit.msc” in your Search box and hit enter.

2.Click “Continue” when windows prompts confirmation box.

3.Go to User Configuration\Administrative Templates\Windows Components\Instant Search\Custom Instant Search Internet Search Provider.

4.Now,double click on “Custom Instant Search Internet Search Provider” and set it as “Enabled” in the “Setting”

tab.

5.In the below resource dialog box enter “Yahoo”(your choice) and enter “http://www.yahoo.com”(URL) in URL dialog box.