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11.27.2006

HowTo: Remove Outlook 2007 Instant Search Prompt

If you've installed Outlook 2007 but declined to install the optional Instant Search feature, Outlook continues to prompt you to enable Instant Search by displaying a clickable banner beneath the currently open folder name. You can remove this banner by unchecking the "Show prompts to enable Instant Search" checkbox under Tools ¦ Options ¦ Other ¦ Advanced Options.

Tags: Outlook 2007, Instant Search

# posted by Rick Borup @ 10:08 PM

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Very nice, Thanks.

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Anonymous : 5:09 AM

Thanks, good lookout!

# posted by

Anonymous : 9:17 AM

Thank You!

# posted by

Alex : 7:57 AM

worked perfect, thank you

# posted by

Anonymous : 11:06 AM

Worked like a charm. Thanks.

# posted by

Anonymous : 11:04 PM

Thanks! Stopped this from annoying me for more than five minutes!

# posted by

Anonymous : 4:55 AM

Thank you!!!

# posted by

Anonymous : 10:42 PM

Many thanks. I usually check out the Options dialog in new programs/versions very carefully, but this slipped past me.

# posted by

Anonymous : 1:08 PM

Thanks, truly appreciated. Instant search is convenient for Outlook, but it takes over the normal Windows search and limits options too much.

# posted by

Josh : 4:10 PM

Thank you so much.

# posted by

Anonymous : 11:43 PM

Hooray it was driving me mad!

# posted by

Anonymous : 12:22 PM

Great thanks :) !!! the daily grind to configure any MS product continues. good tip.

# posted by

Anonymous : 5:42 PM

Excellent! What was MS thinking?

# posted by

Anonymous : 1:10 AM

thanks a million. it has annoined me so much.

# posted by

Anonymous : 6:56 PM

Thanks a lot!

# posted by

Cristian : 11:59 AM

Thnak you thank you thank you

I mean, is Microsoft simply stupid? Have they not realized that being annoying is not a good tone for customer relationship?

# posted by

Anonymous : 3:10 AM

Thank You...

# posted by

Vinu : 1:19 AM

Cheers, that was annoying the crap out of me <3

# posted by

Anonymous : 6:04 PM

love your work :D

# posted by

Geoff Jacobs : 2:12 AM

Thanks so very much for this info. That was so annoying. Duh on my part for not finding it myself.

Scott

# posted by

CuriousOne : 11:45 PM

Thanks mate, was pretty irritating!

# posted by

Jez : 5:07 AM

Thanks!!!

# posted by

Anonymous : 1:35 PM

Thanks. One more annoying ms option removed, 10,000 more to go.

# posted by

Anonymous : 1:47 PM

Thankyou very much !!!!!

# posted by

Anonymous : 3:05 PM

That is really a great suggestion. Happy to get it so quickly

# posted by

Anonymous : 10:12 PM

Thank you so much. Outlook is dumb! But now it's a little better.

# posted by

Anonymous : 1:09 PM

Cheers, stopped me from punching the monitor !!:-)

# posted by

Anonymous : 2:59 PM

Thanks so much for providing that info. Bye Bye annoyment.

# posted by

KJLH : 4:04 PM

Thanks! search was killing my machine and after uninstalling this bar was driving me nuts! not a far trip ;)

# posted by

Anonymous : 11:29 AM

Hi, thanks for your good prompt!

# posted by

Anonymous : 2:52 AM

Great stuff! Thanks!

# posted by

Fat Bastard : 12:30 AM

I swear I searched forever for this and couldn't find it. Thanks for helping! I almost enabled instant search so I could have it search for itself. hah.

# posted by

aldorr : 12:33 PM

I did this, but it keeps coming back.
I can get rid of it again, but each time I shut down Outlook and restart it, that stupid search is back again.

It never goes away, dumb MS virus.

I hate MS.

# posted by

Anonymous : 10:09 AM

Thanks for that! Windows search works well, but I prefer Copernic Desktop Search, which has much better preview handling.
The Outlook prompt for Instant Search was pretty annoying after several months!

# posted by

Pete : 8:00 AM

THANK YOU THANK YOU!

# posted by

Russ : 2:45 PM

Thank you. I am using Google desktop instead of MS Search and you made my day a little nicer ...

# posted by

Anonymous : 2:39 PM

Nice one, thanks. Typical MS clumsy attempt to push their own product, I'd happy with Google desktop.

# posted by

Anonymous : 5:20 AM

Thanks so much.. that thing was driving me nuts!

# posted by

Lindsay : 8:22 PM

Can this be performed within the office customisation tool?

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Anonymous : 6:41 AM

many many thanks from Bremen, Germany!!! Georg

# posted by

Anonymous : 1:01 PM

Cheers for that. I spent ages looking how to disable it.

# posted by

Anonymous : 7:00 AM

Thank you for sharing this tibit of information.

# posted by

JS : 10:29 AM

In what possible world was it necessary for them to make it prompt like this? It's like their trying to shove it down your throat!

# posted by

Sam Schutte : 3:43 PM

Thanks! I hated that prompt staring me in the face!

# posted by

Anonymous : 4:50 PM

Big help, thank you!

# posted by

Anonymous : 12:30 AM

Thanks for that tip. The REALLY annoying thing is that if you serach inside the Outlook help menu for instructions how to remove the prompt is specifically tells you that you CANNOT remove it and gives advice like getting rid of your other toolbars if you need more space on the screen. Why would you want to remove USEFUL toolbars and not this completely UNUSEFUL one? And why do they lie and tell you that you cant get rid of it when clearly (and easily) you can.
Thanks for helping out where M$ chose not to.

# posted by

Anonymous : 3:32 PM

You're a freaking genius. I was so annoyed by that little thing after I had already uninstalled the dumb thing, I almost got rid of Outlook just out of spite.

Thanks again.

# posted by

Anonymous : 8:29 PM

Awesome, those options menus are really overwhelming and finding a single option is some random section is tough, this helped immensely!

# posted by

Anonymous : 1:12 PM

Thanks!jimtmilq

# posted by

Dustin Sherrill : 2:49 PM

SUPER!!!!

# posted by

Gaetan : 7:47 AM

This is great! Thank you! Microsoft's help says that it's not possible to remove that little bar.

# posted by

kcampbe : 4:48 PM

Great tip cheers

# posted by

t045ter : 4:28 PM

uhh.. yaa ... perfect.

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Anonymous : 5:47 PM

I goofed and actually installed instant search. As others have said, having it take over regular folder search is unbelievably annoying. So I want to uninstall it. Nothing to uninstall under add/remove programs; Outlook help says you can disable it (not uninstall it) by unchecking the boxes under "index" in the search options - no such check boxes. Any of you guys who've successfully uninstalled it altogether?

# posted by

Anonymous : 7:52 AM

oops - found it. To Uninstall it, you have to look for "Windows Search" instead of "Instant" anything in add/remove programs. Tricky.

# posted by

Anonymous : 8:00 AM

great, thank you so much.. that really helps
sh

# posted by

Anonymous : 5:01 PM

Rick - you are a Prince! I hated that prompt....
W

# posted by

Anonymous : 12:10 PM

I'm really baffled as to why this checkbox isn't under the search options dialog where it would make sense. Thanks for the pointer.

# posted by

Jeff Adams : 10:22 AM

I can't believe I waited this long to search that out. Very Annoying. Thanks.

# posted by

Roni : 9:46 AM

Thank you

# posted by

Anonymous : 2:38 PM

Fantastic. The number of times I kept clicking on that by mistake, when I just wanted to do a search. Now it is gone, for good.

# posted by

The Cat : 5:00 AM

finally some valueable advise

# posted by

Anonymous : 11:07 AM

Super

# posted by

Anonymous : 2:16 PM

Thanks

# posted by

Anonymous : 3:50 PM

Brilliant! This has been annoying me for ages! =)

# posted by

Anonymous : 3:06 AM

You are my new Hero

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Anonymous : 10:57 AM

Thanks for telling us where M$ buries the turning off of this button.

It really hacks me off that it was not a Outlook or Office specific search, but just M$' attempt to push Google out of indexing our desktops.

I really wish that they would be more up front about how to turn this stuff off rather than insist on having us install it to have the "feature" go away.

# posted by

Rob B : 10:36 PM

Thank you very much!

# posted by

omulki : 11:52 AM

Thanks

# posted by

Anonymous : 3:18 PM

Thanks for the tip.

Outlook is a goddamn mess. It's ridiculous that I need to google what I want to do everytime I want to change a behaviour.

# posted by

Anonymous : 6:54 PM

Great tip! It drove me nuts. Thanks a lot.

# posted by

Anonymous : 9:42 PM

fantatstic.. thanks for the tip- it was driving me nuts!!

# posted by

Anonymous : 1:36 PM

Rick,

Gobble Gobble - Happy Turkey Day! XP Pro started behaving **very** badly - it takes a daily hard pounding and lasted for almost 4 years. All it needed was a drive reformat. Anyway, I was reloading software. Found your post - thanks.

I make a living off a VFP application - nice to see you are there also.

Carl

# posted by

Anonymous : 11:44 AM

THANK-YOU

# posted by

Anonymous : 3:03 PM

thankyou

# posted by

Anonymous : 3:04 PM

Perfect - thanks!

# posted by

Anonymous : 12:26 AM

Thank you! Your information allowed me to get rid of the stupid prompt, when I couldn't find anything on the Microsoft support site!!

# posted by

Anonymous : 9:43 PM

I never thought to look in that area. Thanks for the answer.

# posted by

Anonymous : 12:41 PM

Thank you!

# posted by

Torban : 1:59 PM

Thanks a lot.
It was a stupid and annoying prompt.

# posted by

sumanb : 1:02 AM

Thank you. It was so annoying!

# posted by

Anonymous : 11:58 AM

Many thanks - that's great

# posted by

Anonymous : 10:29 AM

Thanks a lot, annoying Micro$oftware as usual.

# posted by

Anonymous : 8:30 AM

Thank you! Windows Desktop Search blows. My must they annoy me to get it?

# posted by

Anonymous : 8:59 PM

Thank you! It works!

# posted by

Anonymous : 8:07 AM

Any idea how to prevent Outlook from prompting to download this in the first place? I'm using the OCT to customize my install. Thanks for any help !

# posted by

Anonymous : 3:25 PM

Thanks!

# posted by

Anonymous : 7:19 AM

THANK YOU!!! That prompt was very annoying.

# posted by

David Lambros : 12:18 PM

Ah... finally, relief! Thanks :)

# posted by

Anonymous : 2:22 AM

Thank you!

# posted by

Anonymous : 4:34 PM

Thank You!I installed Instant Search.
I hated it immensely.
I removed it.
I hated being prompted even more.
I found your post.
I removed the prompt.
I am happy again.

Cheers

# posted by

Scott : 5:04 PM

Thanks...truly a POS feature....

# posted by

Anonymous : 8:12 PM

thank for this info. i was getting annoyed of that banner. i found this place through google.

# posted by

Anonymous : 6:50 PM

Thanks!

# posted by

Andrei : 4:29 AM

Thanks.
I use xobni => way better!

# posted by

Anonymous : 7:55 AM

Thanks a lot! I finally managed to remove this annoying message.

# posted by

Juri Strumpflohner : 9:53 AM

Wonderful!

# posted by

Anonymous : 6:23 PM

Thank you. I haven't used the search integrated in outlook for a long time because it is easier for me to work with my other search tool (lookeen) but this is a very useful tip.

# posted by

sirob : 5:18 PM

Thank you! I've only been using Outlook for a short while and already clicked on the damn thing like ten times!

# posted by

buzhwa2001 : 3:13 PM

This is why people do not like MS products, they always make difficult to disable what they want you to use while there is so simple way how to let people disable it -> Some say: "So do not use it"; but is there REALLY other option ? THANK YOU for show me this time.

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Anonymous : 10:06 PM

Awesome man, thanks, this banner was driving me nuts!

# posted by

Anonymous : 9:37 AM

Many thanks :)

# posted by

N : 10:56 AM

Thanks. Office does not install the usefull features and add nags to download M$ products that you dont want.

# posted by

Anonymous : 5:53 AM

What's really annoying is that option is not able to be controlled through Group Policy... bloody hell!

# posted by

Jeff : 12:50 PM

Fantastic. Thank You!!!

# posted by

Anonymous : 4:35 PM

Thanks, it was either this or take a sledge hammer to the computer!

# posted by

mooch : 11:09 AM

Thank You! Installed Windows Desktop Search on XP... Removed after a few minutes.

# posted by

Anonymous : 11:36 AM

Simple instructions

Many Thanks from the UK

# posted by

Anonymous : 6:04 AM

You made it easy! Thank you! Nik

# posted by

Anonymous : 10:01 PM

Thank you!!

# posted by

Anonymous : 6:51 PM

Thank You!!

# posted by

sameeracle : 3:31 PM

perfect, thanks!

# posted by

Anonymous : 1:24 AM

you are great! man!
i've been puzzling for the past year.

# posted by

Anonymous : 9:51 PM

nice one
cheers

# posted by

Anonymous : 3:58 PM

Wicked thanks !!!

# posted by

Anonymous : 5:49 AM

Thanks a lot! :-) That bar was driving me insane!

# posted by

Anonymous : 2:49 AM

Thanks a lot!

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Anonymous : 3:26 AM

Legend! Many thanks.

# posted by

Anonymous : 6:48 PM

Thanks!
What a relief to stop Outlook nagging to install a feature I really didn't like.

# posted by

NickB : 7:48 AM

Like everyone else I'm in your debt. Many thanks!

# posted by

Mike : 9:39 AM

From this control freak, thank you.

# posted by

Anonymous : 7:49 AM

Thank you!!! That Instant Search is for people who've never previously used computers. I tried finding an ISO file on my hard drive... IMPOSSIBLE!!! I would have had to index the entire 1.5TB drive.
And Microsoft is wondering why people are still using XP... BECAUSE IT WORKS!!!

# posted by

Demosthenes : 1:10 AM

I hate this instant search pane, spent a little while trying to remove. It works nicely, many thanks

# posted by

Anonymous : 6:09 PM

Thanks Alot!!. Microsoft said you can't delete it!!

# posted by

Neil : 8:10 AM

Thank You!

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Anonymous : 2:35 PM

Thank You!-and to think i almost clicked to turn it on-

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Anonymous : 8:43 PM

Thank you very much!
That bar was driving me mad.

# posted by

Anonymous : 4:49 AM

What do you do if the checkbox isn't there?

I saw a screen shot that showed the box that needs to be unchecked highlighted but the funny thing is on my window all those same options are there EXCEPT for the "show prompts for search blah blah whatever"

I'm assuming this was moved or removed in an update at some point.

# posted by

Anonymous : 2:36 PM

Thanks a lot !!!!

# posted by

Vinod : 1:05 AM

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