15.12.2004 15:17 - Good Dog Nigel
I don\'t know about you, but there\'s a number of things in Windows I can happily do without. In Word, it was that fucking Paperclip. In XP, it\'s that bloody dog that comes up every time I want to do a search.
Now, I like dogs. We always had dogs in our family, and I\'m quite fond of them, with the possible exception of the smaller variety which resemble rats on stilts, only with less intelligence. But as far as I\'m concerned, the cute little puppy that turns up on my desktop every time I want to find a file is a waste of space. It\'s typical of microsoft that every time they bring out an operating system they put in cute stuff like this, which just gets in the way of those who already know how to do this sort of thing. But what is worse is that they DON\'T PROVIDE A SWITCH TO TURN IT OFF. XP is typical of this. Soon as I got it, I switched off the garish colour scheme Microsoft had implimented and went straight back to the windows 2000 look.
Well, I\'ve discovered how to get rid of that fucking dog.
Go here : http://www.tweakxp.com/tweak123942.aspx
Better still, If you know what you\'re doing, these are the lines you need to put in the registry for that mutt to vamoose permanently and never darken your desktop again. I take no responsibility for this hack, and if you screw up your registry without saving a backup first, it\'s your own stupid fault and you deserve the dog in the first place.
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\\Software\\Microsoft\\Windows\\CurrentVersion\\Explorer\\CabinetState]
\"use search asst\"=\"no\"
