In RegEdit, go to HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows Desktop Search\DS and set “ShowStartSearchBand” to 0, and you’ll get the default search behavior back.
And while you’re at it and poking around in the registry, you might as well go to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\ContentIndex and set FilterFilesWithUnknownExtensions to DWORD with the value of “1″ in order to enable full-text searching of files (like [...]
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How to disable Windows Desktop Search explorer integration?
Posted in Technical on May 23, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
