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Hide ‘Search the Internet’ from find option in Start menu and in Windows Explorer

This setting enables you to hide the "Search the Internet" option from the find menu on the start menu and in Windows Explorer.

Tweak for : Windows 98, Windows Me, Windows XP, Windows 2003, Windows 2000

Description:

Internet is itself a network, which comprises of many networks. It locates your request and provides information using other networks without having you to do anything. It provides you facilities like e-mail, telnet (remote login), world wide web and other services.

For this, go to Start > Run menu, enter “regedit” and navigate to the registry path listed below after checking for the subkey, “0”. Right-click it and rename the data value with “0x” to enable the setting.

Click “OK” and close the registry editor.

Restart the system or logoff to see the changes taking effect.

These changes apply to ALL users on this machine.

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Registry Entry Details:

Registry Entry 1 :

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\explorer\FindExtensions\Static\WebSearch\]

Key Type :

Local Machine

Value Name :

Data Type :

Key

Enabled Value :

Disabled value :

Other value :

Value Action :

Rename

Steps ScreenShots:

Apply registry settings according below given steps of screenshots with related changes.

‘Search the Internet’ from find option in Start menu is removed.

‘Search the Internet’ from find option in Start menu is visible by default.

First, click the 'Start' button, and select 'Run'. In the resulting dialog box, type "regedit".

Go to [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\explorer\FindExtensions\Static\WebSearch\],right-click on "0" Key and click on 'Rename'. Change name "0x", Once you are done. After a restart or logoff, the changes take effect.