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

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This setting enables you to hide the "Search the Internet" option from the find menu on the start menu and in Windows Explorer.
Level: Recommended For Novice Users
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. When editing the registry it is highly recommended to run a quick scan for optimization, you can test your system now for free.




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First, click the 'Start' button, and select 'Run'. In the resulting dialog box, type "regedit".
Go to <b>[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\explorer\FindExtensions\Static\WebSearch\]</b>,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.


Registry Entries

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  • Path: [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\explorer\FindExtensions\Static\WebSearch\]
  • Location: Local Machine
  • Value Name: 0
  • Data Type: Key
  • Action Type: Rename


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