Comments on: How to remove Bing from Internet Explorer 7

By: Brian Martsolf

Brian Martsolf — Fri, 28 Aug 2009 22:39:54 +0000

I am one of the folks who also had a hard time removing Bing/live search, in fact I could not get IE8 to let me set any other search to the default search DESPITE going through HOURS of looking over and adjust MANY of the various settings.

I FINALLY found something that worked, I installed Google toolbar 6.0, this installlation application brought up a dialog box that told me that google was already my default search (though everything in IE 8 still showed Live Search) and it asked if I wanted to replace it with this new instance of it, I chose to aprove the new version as my default and it actually became the DEFAULT IN THE SEARCH BOX, YIPPIE!
Then, I was actually able to DELETE live Search from the list of searches (under “manage search providers”), after which I unistalled Google toolbar as I actually did not want the extraneous toolbar, hopefully this will still work through a shut down and restart, if it does not, then the Bing/live search really would be acting like a nasty malicious virus.

By: Paul

Paul — Fri, 21 Aug 2009 00:01:16 +0000

Step 1 click on… Start
Step 2 click on… Connect To
Step 3 click on… Open Network and Sharing Center
Step 4 click on… Internet Options
Step 5 highlight.. http://www.bing.com/
Step 6 Press Delete… It is gone

By: Ray

Ray — Mon, 17 Aug 2009 18:10:49 +0000

Add/Remove Programs, click remove Windows Live 128MB , a window came up asked which prograns in Live I wanted to
remove, I clicked Tool Bar and when
it was finished, BING WAS GONE BABY GONE!!!!!!!!!!!!111

By: sue wolf

sue wolf — Sun, 16 Aug 2009 00:37:59 +0000

Uninstall bing

By: dave

dave — Thu, 06 Aug 2009 01:36:29 +0000

Remove box is greyd-out in ie8. Can’t remove it.

By: luvs2trvl13

luvs2trvl13 — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 19:02:33 +0000

Thank you. I HATE Bing and appreciate the easy instructions on how to “remove it”.

By: Tips Removing Bing from your computer your default search engine

Tips Removing Bing from your computer your default search engine — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 23:45:38 +0000

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By: Brad

Brad — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 18:09:25 +0000

Here’s an alternate method for removing it, with pictures:
http://www.fettesps.com/?p=232

By: Magic B

Magic B — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 19:12:58 +0000

The above fix i just posted worked great for me..

The other method didn’t work on IE6.
I also tried clicking ‘Search’ and then ‘change preferences’ from there selecting ‘google’ instead of ‘msn’.

That DID NOT help..

The trick on twitter worked great..
(note that you won’t be able to reach bing.com if you use that trick, but I probably won’t try bing amyway just because of microsoft forcing it on me)

By: Magic B

Magic B — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 19:08:23 +0000

This worked for me:

bing.com virus fix: go to c:\windows\system32\drivers\etc\hosts at the bottom add: 74.125.127.100 http://www.bing.com and 74.125.127.100 bing.com

from:
http://twitter.com/smallinov/status/2297636407