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Search Button Opens Explorer Bar Instead of Custom Search Page

Article ID: 171939

Article Last Modified on 1/20/2007


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SYMPTOMS

When you click the Search button on the Standard Buttons toolbar, your custom Internet Explorer 3.x search page is not opened. Instead, the Search bar opens with a random search engine page displayed.

CAUSE

Internet Explorer now includes a new search feature that uses an Explorer bar. Internet Explorer 3.x search pages do not work properly in the Search bar, so Internet Explorer ignores the custom search page defined in Internet Explorer 3.x. For information about the Explorer bars, see the following article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

171232 How to Use the Explorer Bar in Internet Explorer

RESOLUTION

To work around this behavior and use an Internet Explorer 3.x custom search page, use one of the following methods:


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