Get Rid of IE7 Search Bar
Posted by CDaze on August 7th, 2007
With the introduction of Internet Explorer 7, MicroSoft included a search bar. It was nice of MS to offer a search bar that even allows more options than MSN for searching but they didn’t include a simple option of enable or disable it. You would think there would be a simple right click to enable and disable just like all the other toolbar entries. There is a simple entry to add to the registry remove it from the toolbar. The entry below will remove the search bar for the current user, not forcing anyone else who logs on your PC with the same setting. If you wanted it set across all the users then change the root path to HKLM instead of HKCU. Changing the 1 to a 0 will reverse the setting. Restart IE7 for the changes to take effect.
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Policies\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Infodelivery\Restrictions]
"NoSearchBox"=dword:00000001