Monday, February 27, 2012

How To Hide/Remove the Windows Search Toolbar From the XP Taskbar

As a part of our late rollout of windows search 4.0 to our windows xp clients it was necessary to
remove the search toolbar from taskbar. Below you will find my results and hope that it helps
anyone in the same boat.

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows Desktop Search\DS] "ShowStartSearchBand"=dword:00000000

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Policies\Microsoft\DesktopSearch]
"DB"=dword:00000001

I found the above in a post on this fourm.
http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/windowsdesktopsearchdevelopment/thread/2a0e1cd0-4a0f-4fb0-a819-9e57c8e905e9