Can't Search From Address Bar

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David Patterson

After installing the latest set of security updates from Microsoft, I can't
search from the Address Bar of IE 6. Nor, as has happened before, can I
perform a System Resotre to a state prior to the download. Anyone got any
help or suggestions, please? I'm running XP Home edition.

Thanks.

David.
 
Hi David,

Possibly a SearchHook Hijack. Do you have the Yahoo Companion, Google ICQ or
Coolweb search toolbars then try my fix at
http://www.iecustomizer.com/searchhookfixdownload.htm

or to register the component that controls the address bar shortcuts run

regsvr32.exe shdocvw.dll

My machine has had no problems so perhaps the patch did not complete
properly. Make sure you have re-booted if the update required it.

Regards.
 
Rob,

I've had Google and Yahoo toolbars for a long time and there has been no
problem until now. I was a bitconfused when I read your web page - does it
mean that there should only be the one entry under URLSearchHooks. I have
three: one called 'Default'; one with details of
{4D25F926-B9FE-4682-BF72-8AB8210D6D75} and the one your site mentions but
with no "=" at the end. Should I delete the other two or what.

As I mentioned in my original note, System Restore won'd let me restore to a
previous time. Any views? I don;t think a virus is responsible - I have up
to date Anti-Virus (Norton 2006) and the system is fully scanned weekly.
System has been rebooted.

David.
 
Yep, there should only be the one entry for the Microsoft SearchURL hook.
All com components are loaded from that key and are executed in sequence so
the other search hooks can override the MS defaults.

Note also that each time you load the Yahoo toolbar it inserts its Search
Hook component into the key. I don't think the Yahoo toolbar has an option
to turn off this feature, even disabling BHOs has no effect and I don't
think the Add-In Manager recognizes the Search Hooks installed so you can't
selectively disable them.

You can trace back to Yahoo component to its COM entry under
HKCR\Clsid\InProcessServer32 and rename the file name entry to stop it being
loaded and executed, but I have not tried this method.

Regards.
 
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