How To Get Rid of the XP Search Puppy
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From 95 onward windows has always had a reasonable search function. It’s evolved over the years a bit here and a bit there and then along came XP. One of the things I hate about the XP version is that blasted animated dog. I think maybe I’m allergic to annoying animated critters that don’t actually *DO* anything because just looking at the thing gives me acne.
If that isn’t bad enough, I’ve only now gotten round to finding out how to send the pup packing. Go ahead and open up the search applet: Start | Search | For files or folders… then, in the pups “speech bubble”, at the bottom of the list is “Change Preferences”.
Click on “Without an animated screen character.” and the pup will walk away from the screen and jump off the edge. Poof! No more annoying pup.
You can also take it a step further and give it a much more “bare bones” look and feel. For this you’ll need to fire up regedit (you need administrator rights for this one), in the left pane find HKEY_CURRENT_USER \ Software \ Microsoft \ Windows \ CurrentVersion \ Explorer \ CabinetState. then in the right pane, right-click and select New and then “String value”. Name it “Use Search Asst” (without the quotes) and then right click on it and select Modify and set the value to no.
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