[WEB4LIB] Re: Default search engine for IE Search Button

[Stephen T. Weldon]

Bob:

You can add target='_main' to your links to get them to display in the main
window.

Steve Weldon
steveweldon at goprint.com
GoPrint Systems, Inc.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Robert Sullivan" <SCP_SULLI at sals.edu>
To: "Multiple recipients of list" <web4lib at webjunction.org>
Sent: Friday, October 06, 2000 12:23 PM
Subject: [WEB4LIB] Re: Default search engine for IE Search Button


> >I want to change the default search engine for the IE 5 search button.  I
> >want to make it the Librarian's Index to the Internet (http://lii.org/).
It
> >is not listed as one the engines I can select in the list.  Is there a
way
> >to edit the list or to just bypass the list?  We like LII because the
sites
> >are evaluated and added by librarians (collection development).
>
> In IE 3.02, this was available through the menus.  Now you have to edit:
>
> HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Search
>
> This Registry key has two values, CustomizeSearch and Search Assistant,
which
> we set to the same page.  We grew weary of the pages changing whenever
> Microsoft struck a deal with someone new, sometimes requiring downloading
a
> software update (a pain on secured computers).
>
> The disadvantage, if you find it so, is that your chosen site will only
have
> half the screen and links won't open in the larger window.  That may not
be a
> problem for you.
>
> Bob Sullivan                               scp_sulli at sals.edu
> Schenectady County Public Library (NY)     http://www.scpl.org