Comments on: Getting out of Live Search hell

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Tue, 23 Oct 2007 23:18:28 +0000

Assuming IE7, click on the down-arrow that’s to the right of the magnifying glass that’s to the right of the search box in the upper right-hand corner. From the menu that appears, choose “Find More Providers…” That will take you/her here:

http://www.microsoft.com/windows/ie/searchguide/en-en/default.mspx

Select the search engine you want from the list on the left. An “Add Search Provider” text box will appear. Check the checkbox named “Make this my default search provider” and then click the “Add Provider” button.

At this point, if you want to remove Live Search, despite it not being the default, click on the down-arrow again and choose “Change Search Defaults…” Highlight “Live Search” and click the “Remove” button.

By: contentious.com - links for 2007-10-23

contentious.com - links for 2007-10-23 — Tue, 23 Oct 2007 12:21:16 +0000

[...] Doc Searls Weblog · Getting out of Live Search hell “Live.com used to have a great map search that yielded very nice 3-d images of the landscape — much better than what you’d get with Google Maps. Worked on every browser I tried. Alas, this now appears to be a Windows-only thing.”” (tags: search tools geography maps problems) [...]

By: Prolific Programmer

Prolific Programmer — Mon, 22 Oct 2007 18:57:42 +0000

Use the User-Agent switcher extension to say IE for this site.

By: Mike Taht

Mike Taht — Mon, 22 Oct 2007 17:29:18 +0000

Recently someone I know wanted to get off of hotmail/windows live.

Up until recently you could setup hotmail to forward your hotmail email to any other service. Not anymore. Now you can only forward your email to a private domain, exclusive of services like gmail, etc.

What’s next? A windows only web? And would anyone notice?

By: Matt V

Matt V — Mon, 22 Oct 2007 16:25:36 +0000

I installed it in Firefox & immediately saw in the task manager that memory usage by firefox shot up to 300MB, which is WAY more than usual and would be a big problem on PCs with 1GB of RAM or less.

I think you need to uninstall it.

Go to add/remove programs in the control panel. Scroll down to “virtual Earth 3D Beta” and uninstall it. That should solve the slowdown issue.

There were some check boxes at the end of the install process to make live search the default. Someone with more IE experience than me is going to have to help you make the default Google again.

By: Andria Krewson

Andria Krewson — Mon, 22 Oct 2007 15:58:51 +0000

Go to:
https://support.live.com/eform.aspx?productKey=wllocal&ct=eformts
On the right under frequently asked questions, click on “How do I turn on 3D hardware acceleration.”
That might not have the right answers, or require a new driver or bigger video card or some other nasty thing.
She could just stop using Explorer and switch to Firefox.