Internet Explorer 8 and Windows Search URL

[dhoward_westexetc]

I have tried IE 8 on one of our XP student machines and it generally works fine.

 

However, because we do not have Windows Search 4 (student machines don't need it) we keep getting a banner saying "download Windows Search 4 for faster searching of history and favorites".

 

Has anyone managed to suppress this little message from appearing (preferably by GPO)? I tried disabling the Windows search URL policy, but this makes no difference. I have put in an Impero block to the KB article it links to, but I naturally prefer if this message did not show up at all !

[Arthur]

Setting the registry value below will remove the message completely...

 

Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Main\WindowsSearch]
"ShowPrompt"=dword:00000000