As you can read on my blog I got the following dialog after IE8 was rolled out to the workstation I do daily work on (there's an image of the dialog there too):
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Internet Explorer - Search Provider Default
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A program on your computer has corrupted your
default search provider setting for Internet Explorer.
Internet Explorer has reset this setting to your
original search provider, Bing (www.bing.com).
Internet Explorer will now open Search Settings, where
you can change this setting or install more search providers.
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OK
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IE8 is basically telling me that "some other program" corrupted my search provider information and that it took steps to help me with that problem.
So far so good.
However, this also added Bing.com as a search provider when it was not there before, prevents me from deleting the Bing.com search provider or selecting another search provider as my default and keeps reminding me with the same dialog box every time I (re)start IE8.
Anyone here have any idea on:
- What could actually be causing this?
- Where search provider information is stored?
- How I can change this?
- Who at Microsoft I need to smack because of this? (Kidding about this last one...)