Kill Rover (Search Dog) the Easy Way

There are a million and ten pages (maybe more) throughout the internet that will tell you how to disable the dog that you have there when you use the XP Search functions. Most of them tell you to go in and edit the registry. Don't — You really shouldn't polk around the Windows' Registry when you don't have to (see Registry Editing Warning).

Instead just open the Search...
You can do this from the Start menu easily enough or you can press the WinKey + F and have it open.

When you have it open:
  • Click "Change Preferences"
  • Click "Without an animated screen character"

Rover will wag his tail and walk away.

See? No need to do things the hard way all the time. Sometimes it is much simpler to not poke around in the registry and find a command that will do it for you.

OS: XP > Tips / Tweaks
Date: 01/02/07

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