Hello Shadow,

But you can block with your hosts file.
Try it.

Yes, I also thought of that and it seems to work (better yet, I rerouted it
to a small program which returns a dummy (blank) page. Looks quite a bit
better than the standard HTTP failure page).

The reason that I'm saying "seems to work" is that I saw the string
"msn.com" pop up in a dll related to DNS requests ...

Regards,
Rudy Wieser


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"Shadow" wrote in message
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On Mon, 11 Sep 2017 09:56:17 +0200, "R.Wieser"
wrote:

Hello JJ,

You could just change the Search setting in the Advanced tab of the
Internet Options.
..
Cause Windows Explorer is basically MSIE and vice versa, after all.

I really did want to apply the change in the registry (something I could
automate with a script), but you're right. When all else fails I should
at
least *try* to go that way. :-)

Alas, changing "Search from the Address bar" to "Do not search" just seems
to change the targetted server to "auto.search.msn.com" -- which I also
cannot find/block in the registry ...

But you can block with your hosts file.
Try it.
[]'s

And from the above a new question (just curiosity): where is that setting
good for ? It does not seem affect the web and filebrowser at all.

Regards,
Rudy Wieser


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"JJ" wrote in message
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On Sun, 10 Sep 2017 11:13:39 +0200, R.Wieser wrote:
Grmbl ...

I was too fast: the changes I mentioned work for a _single_ word (which
is
supposedly being regarded as a(n HTTP) server name), but not for two or
more
(those still go to bing).

I've now been searching both the registry and the web for a few hours,
and
have not come anywhere near to discovering how to change (and by it
possibly
disable) the search provider/engine for the _file_ explorer (most of
the
results are related to several kinds of webbrowsers). Neither has it
turned up anything in regard to which program/dll actually contains the
"search provider" (so I can possibly "attack" it from that angle).

Does anyone have an idea ?

You could just change the Search setting in the Advanced tab of the
Internet
Options. Set it to not submit anything to any search site (IE8+), or do
not
perform a search (IE7). Meaning that anything typed will be treated as a
host name - not as local file/folder name. Cause Windows Explorer is
basically MSIE and vice versa, after all.

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