"Hendri Adriaens" said in news:
[email protected]:
This I would like to do, but then an HTML file instead of address or
links or quicklaunch.
Thanks,
-Hendri.
That taskbar won't render HTML coded files. Even if you could get an HTML file in a new toolbar in the taskbar to "brand" it, all you would see is the mess of HTML coding. Sounds like your friend has a compiled utility that provided a customized toolbar.
If you want to search Google from the taskbar:
- Right-click on the taskbar, select Toolbars, and enable the Address toolbar.
- In Internet Options, enable searching from the address bar.
- Open IE, click on the Search button or use the View -> Explorer Bar -> Search to display the Search pane.
- If you are using the classic search view, click the Customize button at the top right of the Search pane. Click the Autosearch Setting button and pick Google.
- If you are using the Search Companion view (in Windows XP), click "Change preferences", "Change Internet search behavior", select Google as the search engine.
Then if you enter space-delimited words in the Address bar (in IE's Address bar or in the taskbar's Address toolbar) or prefix with "?", you'll do a Google search. I don't need a Google toolbar in my taskbar. I use the Address toolbar for Google searches. It also let me put in "C:\Windows" if I want to open Explorer without having to navigate to there after opening it, or enter "%userprofile%" if I want Explorer to open to my user profile path. I can enter "[path]file.txt" and have that file get opened in whatever is associated with the filetype (Notepad, in this case). I can enter "cmd" (to run cmd.exe) to open a DOS shell). If I want to go to Intel's web site, just enter "
www.intel.com" (or just "intel" and hit Ctrl+Enter). You can enter "mailto:<recipient-email>" to open whatever is your default e-mail client to send mail to the specified e-mail address. There's probably more that I haven't yet discovered about how to use the Address bar. Whatever you can do in the Address bar in IE, you can do in the Address toolbar in the taskbar.
I have also use TweakUI to define special prefixes that I can use for autosearch using the Address bar (I remember doing this in Windows 2000 but can't recall if it via TweakUI; this is available in the TweakUI Power Toy for Windows XP because that's what I'm on now). Under Internet Explorer -> Search, I can define prefixes to use specific commands (which take the inputted text as the %s argument). For now, I only have prefixes defined that will do searches but I suppose the command could do just about anything. I have the following autosearch prefixes defined:
For Google (web) search:
g =
http://www.google.com/search?num=100&hl=en&lr=lang_en&newwindow=1&safe=off&q=%s
For Google Directory search:
gd =
http://www.google.com/search?num=100&hl=en&lr=lang_en&newwindow=1&safe=off&cat=gwd&q=%s
For Google Groups search:
gg =
http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=en&lr=lang_en&newwindow=1&safe=off&q=%s
For Google Images search:
gi =
http://images.google.com/images?num=100&hl=en&lr=lang_en&newwindow=1&safe=off&q=%s
For Google News search:
gn =
http://news.google.com/news?num=100&hl=en&lr=lang_en&newwindow=1&safe=off&cat=&q=%s
For Microsoft Search search:
ms =
http://search.microsoft.com/search/results.aspx?st=b&na=80&View=en-us&qu=%s
For Microsoft Support search (on all words entered):
mss =
http://support.microsoft.com/search/?QuerySource=gASr_Query&Query=%s&KeywordType=ALL&maxResults=150
Note that when you do a Google search that it performs it across the web, directory, images, and news categories all at the same time and you can just toggle the tabs to switch categories. The Google prefixes simply put you in that category when the browser window opens to show the search results. I can use one search engine (configured as noted above) for doing address bar search and use "g <string>" to use Google. If space-delimited words (2 or more) are entered, a search is performed using the default search engine. If you are searching on only one word, and to avoid IE opening and trying to go to a "www.<string>.com" site, use the "?" prefix to use the default search engine or "g" to use Google. I happen to have configured the default search engine to be Google, so the only time I need to specify a prefix ("?" or "g") is when I am searching on only one word that I believe is unique enough, like "ultimatebootcd". Since I'm in the newsgroups a lot, the mss prefix helps submit a search into Microsoft's support site. When someone asks why passwords aren't being remembered in Outlook, enter "mss outlook remember password".
Use the Address toolbar for Google searches (or whatever you configure as the default search engine or use for prefixes), searches using other prefixes, opening Explorer, and more.
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