Hi Becky, See if any of my saved notes will help:
From: Carlos Go to the Internet Explorer Gallery http://www.iegallery.com/en-us/addons?callback=true&featuretype=2 and add a new search provider like Google for example. There's a link labeled "Add to Internet Explorer" on the page after you select a search provider. When you click on this link, check the "Make this my default search provider" checkbox. Carlos From: Grant Hardy Yes--if you hit ALT+T for the Tools menu while in IE 10 and choose "Manage add-ons", you'll find a radio button for Search Providers. Select this radio button and then TAB until you hear "find more search providers". Activate this link and you'll be taken to the Internet Explorer gallery where you can find and add other search providers to IE including Google. To add the Google search provider, activate the Google link to bring up the information page and then choose Add to internet explorer. You'll be prompted as to whether you want to make this the default search provider. Grant From: Roger Loran Bailey Because of this thread and Gene's comments I just did something that I did not know how to do and didn't even know that I wanted to do until now. I changed my own default search engine in Internet Explorer to Google. My default search engine has been Bing ever since I got this Windows 7 computer, but I prefer Google. I handled the problem by just ignoring Bing and making Google my home page. Because of this discussion I decided to check to see if I could change the default search. I went to tools and then to manage add ons. I then arrowed down until I saw search engines. I tabbed and found Bing checked as default. By arrowing up and down I saw that there were other search engines and Google was not one of them. So I continued to tab until I found a link labeled "search for other search engines." I clicked that link and came to a Microsoft page about add ons and at first I didn't think it had anything to do with search engines, but down the page there was a link to search engines which I clicked. I then got a list of search results and again Google was not one of them. Apparently Microsoft wants to make it hard for you to use Google. In exasperation I pressed the E key to go to the only edit field on the page and typed in Google. Again I got a list of search results, but this time the first one on the list was Google search. There was a link right after it for adding it to Internet Explorer. I clicked it again and there was a page listing some things about Google. By this time I was getting tired of the hoops I was jumping through, so I didn't read that material very closely and now I can't really tell you what it said, but at the very bottom there was another link offering to add Google to Internet Explorer. I clicked it again and a dialog came up. Tabbing through it there were several check boxes to either check or not to check and one of them was to make Google my default search engine. I did check that and went through the rest of the dialog and click finish or save or whatever it said at the end. I then just closed the browser and opened it up again. I don't know if that was necessary, but that is how I did it. Then I check by pressing f6 for the address bar and, indeed, it showed Google. I typed in a word off the top of my head and pressed enter and I got a list of Google search results. So there is how to make Google your default search engine in Internet Explorer. I would have done this a long time ago if I had thought of it or even known where to look. Roger On 7/9/2013 5:21 PM, Gene wrote: I don't know how detailed help you need. I'll give you instructions that will probably get you to the correct place but I haven't changed my search engine so I can't tell you just what you will see and just what to do. Look around. Open Internet Explorer Open the tools menu. From there, find and open manage addons. You will probably be on a list of radio buttons. down arrow to search engines. Tab around and up and down arrow in the list to see what cho9ices are there. If you need to add more search engines, tab to an item for finding more search engines and press enter on it. From this point on, you will have to look around and do what seems appropriate. Tab around and see what you find. Use the up and down arrow keys in lists or where you believe it may be appropriate. It appears, based on inferring from what I read, that you will find a list of search engines. Arrow to Google and then start tabbing. I believe you will find an install button. press the space bar on it. I believe you will then find an add button. Activate that button. then see if you can tab to the list of browsers, up or down arrow to google and check it. Try using the space bar to check it. Then tab around and see if there is an ok button or a close button. If so, activate it. If not, close where you are with alt f4 or you can try escape, whichever you wish. As I said, these instructions may not be fully accurate but they may well give you a good enough idea of what to do to change the search engine. Gene Take care. Mike This email was sent from my, iBarstool. ----- Original Message ----- From: Pinky To: [email protected] Sent: Sunday, June 15, 2014 9:20 AM Subject: Re: [JAWS-Users] search engine take over Did you check in the program list where you uninstall programs. It also might be listed under a different name then the search engine name. -----Original Message----- From: JAWS-Users-List [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Becky Buckner Sent: Saturday, June 14, 2014 7:22 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [JAWS-Users] search engine take over Thanks for the suggestion, but did not find the search engine listed there. Also, I am using MSSE and Malwarebytes. Thinking of changing to something different, but meanwhile... ----- Original Message ----- From: "Holger Fiallo" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Saturday, June 14, 2014 7:12 PM Subject: Re: [JAWS-Users] search engine take over > check within control panel and program. Look for it and delete it. > > -----Original Message----- > From: Becky Buckner > Sent: Saturday, June 14, 2014 6:05 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: [JAWS-Users] search engine take over > > Hi all. > Using Windows 7 and JAWS 15. > My home page has been taken over by a search engine. I have gone into > Internet Options and changed it, but when I reboot, the search engine > returns. What do I need to do to stop this take over? Any help will be > appreciated. > > Becky > For answers to frequently asked questions about this list visit: > http://www.jaws-users.com/help/ > > > > Holger Fiallo > > For answers to frequently asked questions about this list visit: > http://www.jaws-users.com/help/ For answers to frequently asked questions about this list visit: http://www.jaws-users.com/help/ For answers to frequently asked questions about this list visit: http://www.jaws-users.com/help/ For answers to frequently asked questions about this list visit: http://www.jaws-users.com/help/
