How to disable internet search from the adresbar of file explorer ?

R.Wieser wrote:
Mike,

I was thinking about renaming a copy of something like
"Calc.exe" (The calculator), to the name of the browser, and just
removing the un-needed browser. At least that way, I'd just get the
calculator whenever a webpage is supposed to appear.

That will work for any case which works tries to start the web-browser
program -- which, in IE's case, is just a small GUI program interfacing with
all the OS-embedded web components -- but not in the case of what I
described, from within file-explorer.

Try it: put one or a few words (they are handled differently!) into the
addres bar of the file explorer, and notice it turning itself into a
webbrowser (even the toolbar changes). If you had the folder tree open it
turns into a "search assistant" window (just as in the web browser)

I am not sure if this will work, or not.

Alas. It will work partially, not wholly.

Regards,
Rudy Wieser


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On Fri, 8 Sep 2017 15:01:32 +0200, "R.Wieser"
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Hello all,

#1: I would like to know if there is a way to stop file-explorer of trying
to go online when something is entered in the adressbar it does not
recognise.

#2: I would also like to remove the 'websearch' option thats made
available
when you, from the file-explorer, select "find".

If've _blocked_ both using very crude methods (registry editing involved),
but would very much like to know how to do it the "clean" way.

And a funny thing: #1 goes to google, #2 goes to bing. :-) :-(

Regards,
Rudy Wieser

I sure can relate to this problem. I have a computer I use to do graphic
editing, and is also my machine to store a huge amount of music, videos,
photos, and other personal stuff. That computer has never and will never
be connected to the internet. I dont trust my valuable files to the
internet, and should not have to. Having several computers, I dont have
any need to connect that machine anyhow.

That computer runs XP SP3 Pro.

I get extremely tired of it opening my browser and giving me an error
message. I was thinking about renaming a copy of something like
"Calc.exe" (The calculator), to the name of the browser, and just
removing the un-needed browser. At least that way, I'd just get the
calculator whenever a webpage is supposed to appear. I am not sure if
this will work, or not.

One of the functions from that era was Active Desktop. which
allowed defining some of the desktop with HTML.

Searching in the address bar, was a function specific to Internet Explorer
(which is not the same thing as File Explorer). Do you suppose the functionality
of File Explorer *changes* with Internet Explorer version ?

https://social.technet.microsoft.com...tprocurrentver

As an experiment, on WinXP SP3 with IE6, I typed "http:www.sun.com"
into the File Explorer bar at the top, and it opened IE6 *in the same window*
and displayed the web page. If I typed "www.sun.com", it did the
same thing, and didn't try to use Bing.

In my Internet Options, I have under the Advanced tab:

Search from the Address bar

When searching

1 Display results, and go to the most likely site
2 Do not search from the Address bar
3 Just display the results in the main window
4 X Just go to the most likely site

It would appear the file bar at the top of the iexplorer
window, is really an Address bar on iexplore.exe . And I don't
have Active Desktop or anything like that, enabled if I can
manage it.

Paul