Pitting MSN Search (minor, but irritating)

Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
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So I have the Google toolbar. I love Google. Google is how I search.

Unfortunately, I have msn as my home page. This means that anytime I open IE to perform a search, and I go to type my find words in the search frame on my Google toolbar, my cursor “mysteriously” jumps to the MSN search frame and my find words are entered there. This bugs the crap out of me! If I clicked in the Google frame, that is what I wanted, nevermind that you MS folks seem to think you know what is good for me.

I know, I know, if this is my biggest worry, I am lucky. But I feel manipulated and cranky. Too stubborn to change to another home page (though I should - any recommendations?) or to even try MSN search now because of this trickery.

Hmph.

NHNG

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Grrr…I’m with you. I fucking hate MSN anything. Years ago, on my Packard Bell (don’t hit me, my parents bought it!) it came with MSN. Well, not knowing much about computers, I deleted the program instead of uninstalling it. And then for whatever reason I could NOT get the MSN icon off my desktop. It kept saying “Program cannot be found: Cannot delete”. Or something stupid.

I could have reinstalled MSN, I guess, but I was so pissed that it was stuck on my computer that I refused. It was still there when I finally got rid of that thing.

Grrr!

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There is nothing more mundane and pointless than MSN.

Off to it’s true home, MPSIMS.

Veb

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For years and years, my home page has been about:blank - I’m just about ready to accept changing it to google.com, but this laxity is a sign of the apoaclypse.

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NeitherHeidiNorGretchen , I have noticed the same thing(MSN hijacking my search string). Put me down as well for one “no like”.

I have actually only noticed this happening in the past month or so. Is it a new thing? Whatever it is, it sucks. :mad:

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http://epod.usra.edu/

Thats my homepage, gives me about two seconds of Neato! when I open my browser.

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I dunno 'bout you, but the SDMB is my home page on my home computer…

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Is it not the case that when pages with forms load generally they direct the cursor to the first form? Because it is in my experience. And therefore it’s not MSN’s fault. Set Google to your homepage, and you won’t have this problem.

–Cliffy

P.S. Welcome to the SDMB, NeitherHeidiNorGretchen! I dig your username. However, as is my custom, I tend to refer to people by a diminutive form of their username, so I’ll be calling you Heidi from now on. :wink:

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I actually have mine as MPSIMS. I couldn’t wait through that one click to get here.

And welcome to the madhouse NeitherHeidiNorGretchen!

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I always turn off address bar searching in IE (go to Tools>Internet Options>Advanced, then scroll down to ‘Search from the address bar’ and select the option ‘Do not search from the address bar’) - this way, you won’t be treated to an extended wait followed by a (usually fruitless) MSN search page every time you accidentally type gfoogle.com or something like that in the address bar.

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You are probably right. I just want it to intuit that I prefer Google, you know?

Thanks, Cliffy! As you probably gathered, I am called Heidi on a regular basis, so I will, indeed, answer to it.

NHNG