Ambassador Posted October 30, 2007 Share Posted October 30, 2007 I am running Windows XP SP2 on my "family" computer, and I wondered if there was a way to replace the standard Internet Explorer-based search utility with a Windows 98SE style one? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PC_LOAD_LETTER Posted October 30, 2007 Share Posted October 30, 2007 just open search and after the dog does his stupid little animation click 'change preferences' then 'turn off animated character' then 'change prefences again and pick 'change files and folder search behavior' and select advancedyou can also turn indexing off to if you want. I think thats the closest you can get to a 98 style search without adding other software Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ambassador Posted October 30, 2007 Author Share Posted October 30, 2007 Well, I want to rid of IE search altogether, and if I have to use other software, so be it.The reason I ask is because I remeber my brother was once able to replace the search with the 98-style one, and I never found out how he did it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ambassador Posted October 30, 2007 Author Share Posted October 30, 2007 (edited) So what kind of software is there available?Better yet, could I replace the XP search with the one from 98? (I have a 98SE CD) Edited October 30, 2007 by Ambassador Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PC_LOAD_LETTER Posted October 30, 2007 Share Posted October 30, 2007 i doubt you could outright replace it. best option you will probably get is to hide it and use an alternate program (bonus point to anyone that would know how to ''hook' it to the F3 key in explorer or startmenu shorcut) -i know it can be done -Directory Opus does it and i think copernic does tooThis Looks like the author statred with 98 search in mind but it may have more fetures than your looking for:http://www.mythicsoft.com/agentransack/Pag...age=screenshotsor there are commercial options:http://www.copernic.com/http://www.gpsoft.com.au/Intro.html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PC_LOAD_LETTER Posted October 30, 2007 Share Posted October 30, 2007 (edited) DUPE --delete this-- Edited October 31, 2007 by geek Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ambassador Posted October 30, 2007 Author Share Posted October 30, 2007 thanks! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ambassador Posted November 12, 2007 Author Share Posted November 12, 2007 O, I checked the free version of the software you gave me, and it's missing a lot of features like drag and drop.So there goes that option I still want to try replacing it with the 98 search. My brother did it before, I remeber.What files control the search utility in XP and 98SE? If the two are incompatible, is it possible to use the search from NT 4 perhaps? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gosh Posted November 12, 2007 Share Posted November 12, 2007 regsvr32 /u C:\WINDOWS\srchasst\srchui.dll-gosh Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ambassador Posted November 12, 2007 Author Share Posted November 12, 2007 (edited) *DELETE POST* Edited November 12, 2007 by Ambassador Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ambassador Posted November 12, 2007 Author Share Posted November 12, 2007 what exactly does that do? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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