Disabling the dog in Explorer search window

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Gundemarie Scholz

Hello,

by default when opening up a search window in Windows Explorer of XP Pro
in the lower left part you can find a little useless dog. Each user can
disable it by rightclicking and choosing "Turn off the animated
character", but is there a way to centrally make it disappear for all
users? I have had a look at gpedit.msc, but couldn't find anything
appropriate.

Kind regards,
Gunde
 
Hi,

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Search Assistant]
Set "SocialUI" to 0 (REG_DWORD)

Perhaps you can create a .REG file and distribute the settings.

Distributing Registry Changes in Windows 2000:
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/prodtechnol/windows2000serv/maintain/operate/distreg.mspx#EAHAC

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Regards,

Ramesh Srinivasan, Microsoft MVP [Windows XP Shell/User]
Windows® XP Troubleshooting http://www.winhelponline.com


Hello,

by default when opening up a search window in Windows Explorer of XP Pro
in the lower left part you can find a little useless dog. Each user can
disable it by rightclicking and choosing "Turn off the animated
character", but is there a way to centrally make it disappear for all
users? I have had a look at gpedit.msc, but couldn't find anything
appropriate.

Kind regards,
Gunde
 
Gundemarie Scholz said:
by default when opening up a search window in Windows Explorer of XP Pro
in the lower left part you can find a little useless dog.
Click to expand...

Not very "Pro" is it? :) It's actually there even in the VLK versions.
 
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