Bing Desktop is available for Windows 7

nitroman84 said:

Wow, the only way I can describe this is hideous. Is it really that big of a drag to search via a web browser these days?

Time is money...

It is superfluous, but it's also handy at the same time.

DustSailor said:

Does anone know how to re-enable it after I disabled it? Can't seem to find out how...

If you disabled it through the msconfig's Startup section there simply go to the Start>All Programs>Bing Desktop folder and click away to see it start up right away. From there you can re-enable it in the msconfig again to see it start up with Windows.

Night Hawk said:

DustSailor said:

Does anone know how to re-enable it after I disabled it? Can't seem to find out how...

If you disabled it through the msconfig's Startup section there simply go to the Start>All Programs>Bing Desktop folder and click away to see it start up right away. From there you can re-enable it in the msconfig again to see it start up with Windows.

Thanks for the reply Hawk. It actually is enabled there. It is also automatic/started in Services. I turned automatic startup with windows off from the Bing Bar in favor of the regular windows wall paper, and now want to switch back. I cannot seem to find it listed under personalization or Desktop Background.

Where do I start it going from? Desktop context menu has nothing. I seem to be at a loss, and feel like I should know this somehow heh

DustSailor said:

Night Hawk said:

DustSailor said:

Does anone know how to re-enable it after I disabled it? Can't seem to find out how...

If you disabled it through the msconfig's Startup section there simply go to the Start>All Programs>Bing Desktop folder and click away to see it start up right away. From there you can re-enable it in the msconfig again to see it start up with Windows.

Thanks for the reply Hawk. It actually is enabled there. It is also automatic/started in Services. I turned automatic startup with windows off from the Bing Bar in favor of the regular windows wall paper, and now want to switch back. I cannot seem to find it listed under personalization or Desktop Background.

Where do I start it going from? Desktop context menu has nothing. I seem to be at a loss, and feel like I should know this somehow heh

You were able to disable it from the Bing toolbar? That's something new since this was assumed to be a totally separate item installed separately from the Bing Live toolbar.

Still if you go into Start>All Programs>Bing Desktop have you tried starting it up from there? That should get it running at least for the one Windows session. Of course the other option would be an uninstall and fresh install to see it done over as a regular startup item again.

Here I simply unchecked it in the Startup tab of the msconfig to keep it from auto loading each time without a total disable. I even created a new shortcut and dragged that into an addon Quick Launch toolbar(along with a ton of other utilities naturally).

Click to start and right click to bring taskmanager to end as well as bring up UltraMon's wallpaper option again. But it makes it available at any time without it being an automatic startup item.

Night Hawk said:

DustSailor said:

Night Hawk said:

If you disabled it through the msconfig's Startup section there simply go to the Start>All Programs>Bing Desktop folder and click away to see it start up right away. From there you can re-enable it in the msconfig again to see it start up with Windows.

Thanks for the reply Hawk. It actually is enabled there. It is also automatic/started in Services. I turned automatic startup with windows off from the Bing Bar in favor of the regular windows wall paper, and now want to switch back. I cannot seem to find it listed under personalization or Desktop Background.

Where do I start it going from? Desktop context menu has nothing. I seem to be at a loss, and feel like I should know this somehow heh

You were able to disable it from the Bing toolbar? That's something new since this was assumed to be a totally separate item installed separately from the Bing Live toolbar.

Still if you go into Start>All Programs>Bing Desktop have you tried starting it up from there? That should get it running at least for the one Windows session. Of course the other option would be an uninstall and fresh install to see it done over as a regular startup item again.

Here I simply unchecked it in the Startup tab of the msconfig to keep it from auto loading each time without a total disable. I even created a new shortcut and dragged that into an addon Quick Launch toolbar(along with a ton of other utilities naturally).

Click to start and right click to bring taskmanager to end as well as bring up UltraMon's wallpaper option again. But it makes it available at any time without it being an automatic startup item.

You're a genious. I guess I didn't think of the bing desktop as a program but a part of windows, so I was confused. Clicking on the program started it right back up again. Thanks.

ps When I mentioned Bing toolbar, I meant the Bing Desktop Toolbar. I unchecked "Start Bing Desktop when Windows starts". It is now enabled again.

¡Gracias!

Great! I didn't see the toolbar added on here since the only other bar besides menu is the Favorites bar when using IE. IE presently isn't presently the default browser however until 10 is available for 7.

(Me no care for 9 and miss 8 but... WaterFox has Bing set as the default search! )(Well have to keep something MS there at least! )

We're all different in what we prefer. Know what else is different? Misspelling "Genius":

DustSailor said:

You're a genious.

Ever since MS has updated much of their services/products, I've been having a ball. Even switched search engines from google. I say, "Go to bing" instead of "Google it" lol

DustSailor said:

We're all different in what we prefer. Know what else is different? Misspelling "Genius":

DustSailor said:

You're a genious.

Ever since MS has updated much of their services/products, I've been having a ball. Even switched search engines from google. I say, "Go to bing" instead of "Google it" lol

I used to be Yahoo and ask.com until Bing arrived! The web security I have here also indicates which one ends up leading to ..? No "Google-litis" for me!