Hidden Internet Explorer Tweak
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Thanks to your initial comment I watched all four episodes. Porcupine I'm literally literal, or am I?
"The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." - Albert Einstein
"If you are searching for perfection in others, then you seek disappointment. If you are seek perfection in yourself, then you will find failure." - Balboos HaGadol Mar 2010
It could have done with being funny, to make up for the fact that it's soooooo wrong.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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I literally laughed my ass off at this one. Still trying to pick my ass off the floor. :sigh:
I laughed at your comment more than the original one. :laugh:
You have just been Sharapova'd.
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For years there has been a hidden trick that I use all the time in Internet Explorper. (I'm surprised I can't find much of anything about this on the internet; perhaps that's just another sign of IE's shrinking market share.) It is similar to the IE "Search Provider" mechanism, only better. It's so hidden it doesn't even have a name. I call it SearchURL. It is a shortcut that enables you to search a website quickly. For example, if you find yourself searching the CP Lounge often, you could use this shortcut typed into the IE Address Bar:
cp baloney
and you will get all the Lounge articles containing "baloney". (Including this one, I presume.) Here's how to set it up (You'll need regedit privileges): In regedit, navigate to:
HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\SearchUrl
Create a new Key. Give it the name "cp". For the default value, paste in this text:
http://www.codeproject.com/search.aspx?q=%s&doctypeid=6&categoryid=f1\_1159\_
(Note: the "secret sauce" is the `%s` in the url. IE will replace that with whatever search term you supply in the address bar.) It should work immediately. Just type `cp baloney or whatever` in your IE Address Bar. I've created a couple dozen shortcuts for all the sites I frequent (e.g. wikipedia, thesaurus.com, amazon.com, stackoverflow, etc., as well as several internal sites on my company's intranet). It works on just about any site that has a "Search this site" box. Just search the site normally for some `SearchTerm`, then cut resulting the URL and replace `SearchTerm` with `%s`, then create a new SearchUrl key in the registry, choose any memorable abbreviation for the site, and paste the URL in the Data of the key. Pretty simple, eh? Just thought I'd share the love. P.S. There used to be a downloadable program (called TweakUI) that could set this up for you automatically (without regedit) but that program doesn't appear to exist anymore.
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For years there has been a hidden trick that I use all the time in Internet Explorper. (I'm surprised I can't find much of anything about this on the internet; perhaps that's just another sign of IE's shrinking market share.) It is similar to the IE "Search Provider" mechanism, only better. It's so hidden it doesn't even have a name. I call it SearchURL. It is a shortcut that enables you to search a website quickly. For example, if you find yourself searching the CP Lounge often, you could use this shortcut typed into the IE Address Bar:
cp baloney
and you will get all the Lounge articles containing "baloney". (Including this one, I presume.) Here's how to set it up (You'll need regedit privileges): In regedit, navigate to:
HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\SearchUrl
Create a new Key. Give it the name "cp". For the default value, paste in this text:
http://www.codeproject.com/search.aspx?q=%s&doctypeid=6&categoryid=f1\_1159\_
(Note: the "secret sauce" is the `%s` in the url. IE will replace that with whatever search term you supply in the address bar.) It should work immediately. Just type `cp baloney or whatever` in your IE Address Bar. I've created a couple dozen shortcuts for all the sites I frequent (e.g. wikipedia, thesaurus.com, amazon.com, stackoverflow, etc., as well as several internal sites on my company's intranet). It works on just about any site that has a "Search this site" box. Just search the site normally for some `SearchTerm`, then cut resulting the URL and replace `SearchTerm` with `%s`, then create a new SearchUrl key in the registry, choose any memorable abbreviation for the site, and paste the URL in the Data of the key. Pretty simple, eh? Just thought I'd share the love. P.S. There used to be a downloadable program (called TweakUI) that could set this up for you automatically (without regedit) but that program doesn't appear to exist anymore.
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For years there has been a hidden trick that I use all the time in Internet Explorper. (I'm surprised I can't find much of anything about this on the internet; perhaps that's just another sign of IE's shrinking market share.) It is similar to the IE "Search Provider" mechanism, only better. It's so hidden it doesn't even have a name. I call it SearchURL. It is a shortcut that enables you to search a website quickly. For example, if you find yourself searching the CP Lounge often, you could use this shortcut typed into the IE Address Bar:
cp baloney
and you will get all the Lounge articles containing "baloney". (Including this one, I presume.) Here's how to set it up (You'll need regedit privileges): In regedit, navigate to:
HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\SearchUrl
Create a new Key. Give it the name "cp". For the default value, paste in this text:
http://www.codeproject.com/search.aspx?q=%s&doctypeid=6&categoryid=f1\_1159\_
(Note: the "secret sauce" is the `%s` in the url. IE will replace that with whatever search term you supply in the address bar.) It should work immediately. Just type `cp baloney or whatever` in your IE Address Bar. I've created a couple dozen shortcuts for all the sites I frequent (e.g. wikipedia, thesaurus.com, amazon.com, stackoverflow, etc., as well as several internal sites on my company's intranet). It works on just about any site that has a "Search this site" box. Just search the site normally for some `SearchTerm`, then cut resulting the URL and replace `SearchTerm` with `%s`, then create a new SearchUrl key in the registry, choose any memorable abbreviation for the site, and paste the URL in the Data of the key. Pretty simple, eh? Just thought I'd share the love. P.S. There used to be a downloadable program (called TweakUI) that could set this up for you automatically (without regedit) but that program doesn't appear to exist anymore.
Interesting approach. I've used my own startup HTML page (with all my favorite links as similarly sized images representing the website [often the logo] - essentially my own start menu for the web) and on there I have textboxes which I can use to submit queries that effectively do the same thing on my common sites. Should the website change, it's easier for me to modify some JS than a registry entry so I'll probably stick with my approach but it's nice to recall the power of the registry.
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OriginalGriff wrote:
use Edge to download Chrome
Sadly, neither are approved yet on my corporate network. Nevertheless, I don't think even Chrome offers this particular shortcut.
Sure. With Chrome you don't have to edit the registry. They expose the feature (deep, but still present) in the browser's UI: How to Set Keyword Bookmarks in Google Chrome[^] Firefox is even simpler. There's a link in that LifeHacker article for more info.
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in Mozilla's browser, Firefox, it's as simple as selecting 'add keyword for this search' in the context menu.
iskSYS wrote:
'add keyword for this search'
Yep, this is the same feature (and Firefox has exposed it in a far simpler manner). One of the reasons I submitted the original post was to find out how to do this in other browsers, so thank you. But just to clarify (regarding instructions in Firefox): you need to click into a searh field on a website (for example, the "Search Messages" at the top of this page) to access the context menu item.
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In chrome you can set this up by going to settings -> Manage search engines -> add search engines
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Sure. With Chrome you don't have to edit the registry. They expose the feature (deep, but still present) in the browser's UI: How to Set Keyword Bookmarks in Google Chrome[^] Firefox is even simpler. There's a link in that LifeHacker article for more info.
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For years there has been a hidden trick that I use all the time in Internet Explorper. (I'm surprised I can't find much of anything about this on the internet; perhaps that's just another sign of IE's shrinking market share.) It is similar to the IE "Search Provider" mechanism, only better. It's so hidden it doesn't even have a name. I call it SearchURL. It is a shortcut that enables you to search a website quickly. For example, if you find yourself searching the CP Lounge often, you could use this shortcut typed into the IE Address Bar:
cp baloney
and you will get all the Lounge articles containing "baloney". (Including this one, I presume.) Here's how to set it up (You'll need regedit privileges): In regedit, navigate to:
HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\SearchUrl
Create a new Key. Give it the name "cp". For the default value, paste in this text:
http://www.codeproject.com/search.aspx?q=%s&doctypeid=6&categoryid=f1\_1159\_
(Note: the "secret sauce" is the `%s` in the url. IE will replace that with whatever search term you supply in the address bar.) It should work immediately. Just type `cp baloney or whatever` in your IE Address Bar. I've created a couple dozen shortcuts for all the sites I frequent (e.g. wikipedia, thesaurus.com, amazon.com, stackoverflow, etc., as well as several internal sites on my company's intranet). It works on just about any site that has a "Search this site" box. Just search the site normally for some `SearchTerm`, then cut resulting the URL and replace `SearchTerm` with `%s`, then create a new SearchUrl key in the registry, choose any memorable abbreviation for the site, and paste the URL in the Data of the key. Pretty simple, eh? Just thought I'd share the love. P.S. There used to be a downloadable program (called TweakUI) that could set this up for you automatically (without regedit) but that program doesn't appear to exist anymore.
It's a shame so many discussions like this immediately devolve into a slam fest. Many people - like myself - work in conditions that dictate what browser we use and information like this is helpful. Comments like - "I tweak IE by downloading [Chrome, Firefox, Opera, etc.]" while entertaining to some, are completely useless. Thank you for your post. I found it useful to setup search url's for b (Bing) g (Google) y (Yahoo) and w (Wikipedia) Yes, this can be done by clicking the search down arrow and clicking the desired search engine. However, those are two clicks I don't have to do. Since I am already at the address bar typing my search phrase, two keys take less time and effort to type (i.e. "b ") than moving my hand from keyboard to mouse, click, click, move hand back to keyboard. Thanks much, Brian
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It's a shame so many discussions like this immediately devolve into a slam fest. Many people - like myself - work in conditions that dictate what browser we use and information like this is helpful. Comments like - "I tweak IE by downloading [Chrome, Firefox, Opera, etc.]" while entertaining to some, are completely useless. Thank you for your post. I found it useful to setup search url's for b (Bing) g (Google) y (Yahoo) and w (Wikipedia) Yes, this can be done by clicking the search down arrow and clicking the desired search engine. However, those are two clicks I don't have to do. Since I am already at the address bar typing my search phrase, two keys take less time and effort to type (i.e. "b ") than moving my hand from keyboard to mouse, click, click, move hand back to keyboard. Thanks much, Brian
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iskSYS wrote:
'add keyword for this search'
Yep, this is the same feature (and Firefox has exposed it in a far simpler manner). One of the reasons I submitted the original post was to find out how to do this in other browsers, so thank you. But just to clarify (regarding instructions in Firefox): you need to click into a searh field on a website (for example, the "Search Messages" at the top of this page) to access the context menu item.