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Pin Internet sites to the Start Menu
Hi All,
This is my first mail to the forum, and I hope you will be able to help me on this.
I was looking for an answer all over the net without luck so far.
I would very much like to search specific internet sites directly from the start menu in win7. For instance, I could search PubMed (medical research database) or dictionaries that I like.
According to Microsoft there is a simple option for that in win7 Pro.
I only need to "Pin Internet sites to the Start Menu"
See this technet page: Group Policy for Windows Search, Browse, and Organize
The only thing I should do is to enable the appropriate group policy:Pin Internet sites to the Search again links and the Start Menu.
And to set up the sites according to the simple rule.
However, sites that are set this way do show up NEITHER in search again links NOR in the start menu.
You could take a look at this site as well, where it is shown with photos how it should work in real life:
Pin Any search site to Start menu and Windows Explorer
Restart does not help, I checked the registry it shows the same setting as the Group Policy editor and everithing looks OK except, that sites that are set this way do NOT show up in the start menu.
I removed "See more results" from the start menu and added Search the Internet link to the Start Menu without any problem. I could also set up a "Custom Instant Search Internet search provider" group policy, so I have at least one internet site that I can search from the net.
Federated search is not good for me because I would like to have my results in the browser (and federated search works only for certain search providers).
I would highly appreciate, if someone could tell me what setting can prevent this group policy to take effect and to show me the search opptions.
Your help would make my work much easier.
Thank you in advance.
GeeN