®®® Posted November 25, 2004 Report Share Posted November 25, 2004 (edited) This is an old shoe (bad translation i know), but it's soo usefull after you familiarized with it and have used it a few times. You don't want to miss it anymore, believe me :) The Purpose: is to enhance the search capabilities of Internet Explorer, which i still use, shame on me :P regarding all the hype about FireFox and security issues with IE, but be assured that i had my (good) experience with Opera some years ago (still miss the mouse gestures in IE). The Features: search (the below listed) sites without first typing in the adress in the Adress Bar of IE. Without this IE .REG enhancement usually a 2-Step-procedure is needed to search something:1. Enter the Http adress in IE or use of Bookmarks/Favorites & Hit enter (surf to the site)2. Enter the search term & Hit Enter Now only 1 step is necessary:1. Enter the search term in the IE Adress Bar & Hit Enter You can easily add more sites if you regularly visit certain ones and need to search these regularly The Usage: Open up an IE window. Enter for exampleggl alzheimerand hit enter.You directly surf to the google site already showing the results for alzheimer. The abbreviations you need to type in the IE Adress Bar are red:- AV : Altavista.com- DICT : dictionary.reference.com, a free Dictionary- EBAY : ebay.com- FM : FileMirrors.com- GGL : Google.com- GGLS : let Google.com search one specified site- MAPS : maps.google.com, Google's great, fast-loading map site for the US- KB : Microsoft KnowledgeBase articles- LEO : dict.leo.org, a free and in my eyes the best translation page for English<->German or other way around.- LEOF : dict.leo.org, French<->German/German<->French- LV2GO : LaptopVideo2Go.com- MS : Microsoft.com- THES : thesaurus.reference.com, which is a free Thesaurus- WIKI : wikipedia.org, a free Lexicon- WIKIDE : german Wikipedia Examples: Altavista Search for Alzheimer av alzheimer FileMirrors Search for TweakUI fm tweakui Google Search for US elections ggl us elections Microsoft KnowledgeBase Search for Knowledge Base article 314834 (requires that you know the article number) kb 314834 Let LEO translate the English word require to German leo require Let LEO translate the German word Sonnenuntergang to English leo sonnenuntergang Let LEO translate the German word Sonnenuntergang to French leof sonnenuntergang Let LEO translate the French word voucher to German leof voucher Show street zoomable maps of NewYork with Google maps new york Hope you understand the usage. It's that simple and fast. Enhancement i made: As i'm generally bad at searching things on certain websites (which also applies to this forum) by using the build in search function, i enhanced the reg file to search with google ONLY WITHIN one declared site (you need to use GGLS and enter the name of the site plus the domain, see the following example): ggls microsoft.com bootvis So for all our visitors i made a special google LaptopVideo2Go.com in-site search available: Google Search ONLY AT LaptopVideo2Go for Linux lv2go linux Google Search ONLY AT LaptopVideo2Go for NVLITE lv2go nvlite If you are convinced by the features just download & merge the attached .REG file and enjoy the new comfort :) (154DLs) MORE_IE.reg Edited December 5, 2006 by ®®® Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Teraphy Posted November 25, 2004 Report Share Posted November 25, 2004 Very nice feature! Thanks. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
®®® Posted November 26, 2004 Author Report Share Posted November 26, 2004 Teraphy as i know searching at the microsoft site is your "morbid enemy" :) (which also apllies to me) you could add the following to the .REG file: [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\SearchUrl\MS]@="http://www.google.com/search?q=site:microsoft.com %s" The usage would then be: open up IE, type in ms bootvisand enjoy the microsoft only results. Plus you have the google feature of "cached" pages, which i use very often. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
®®® Posted November 29, 2004 Author Report Share Posted November 29, 2004 Hi i added an easy EBAY search function. Noter that if you have 2 or 3 words to search you need to add a DASH between the words: ebay mech-commander or just single word: ebay thunderforceAlso i added an easy WIKIPEDIA.com (free encyclopedia) search function:wiki cathode ray tube Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
®®® Posted April 5, 2005 Author Report Share Posted April 5, 2005 I updated the file, so now it's possible to search maps.google.com for street maps in the US and i added a Thesaurus and Dictionary :) Hope you like the features. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
®®® Posted November 28, 2006 Author Report Share Posted November 28, 2006 - Fixed LEO French<->German translation link - cosmetics Btw this enhancement also works with IE7 :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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