Thursday, May 07, 2009

Remove the nagging Instant Search Bar in Outlook

For my technical friends and those that get aggravated like me when it comes to nagging screens.

If you're like me and you hate desktop search applications (other than Google Desktop), you've installed Office 2007 and you keep getting nagged in Outlook to install Windows Desktop Search with an annoying 'Click here to enable Instant Search' tooltip, turning it off is easy.

In Outlook 2007, go to Tools -> Options -> Other -> Advanced Options and remove the check for 'Show prompts to enable Instant Search'."

There… gone.

3 comments:

Nick Nicholaou said...

'Cause it's the little things...

jaysonrowe.com said...

If you have installed Google Desktop, you may want to also disable the "Windows Search" service...free up some resources and Disk I/O...

Cory said...

Thank you!