Dell/Google Search page, its doing my head in.

[pemberto]

Hello All,

I am after some help as this is doing my head in, let me explain.

I have a 3 month old Dell 9150 running MCE. I have an issue with IE, but its not an IE problem. (let me explain a little more)

I run IE7, all my search settings are set to Microsoft. I use live search and all is fine. If I look at the Internet Options, Search it only lists Microsoft.

I dont have any default pages loading.

For some unkown reason if IE cannot find a page it will load up a Dell based Google search screen or if i type a search query on the address bar it will also load this google engine, but if I type the search spec in the query field it loads the MS search engine.

The only Google app I have loaded is Picasa.

If i go to my Internet Options in IE and select Use Default for the Home Page i get the following URL:

http://www.google.co.uk/ig/dell?hl=e...suk&channel=uk

I put a call into Dell (waste of time) after I was put on hold for the 5th time and being asked I can clear the browser cache i started to query the registry and I found the following.

HKEY_CURRENT_User\Software\BAE

Name - BAEUrl
Type - REG_SZ
Data - http://images.google.com/images?q=

I deleted the entry and restarted the machine and all was fine

No, it's just happended again and I have found the BAE entry back in the registry. So now you can all understand why I am banging my head on a wall.

What have dell done to the standard build that will not let me get away from the google search engine.

[Singh400]

Download SpywareBlaster it allows you to change hard to find options like this.

[pemberto]

All sorted. It was a Dell/Google URL Assistant app that had been installed. All uninstalled and working fine.

Thanks for the info Singh400.

[JohnG]

That explains what's happening on my laptop. I'm also getting that page displayed if it can't find adverts on web pages and I agree it is very annoying.

[JohnG]

Where was this Dell/Google URL assistant ? I've looked in control panel but can't see any mention of it.

[JohnG]

It's OK I found it with HijackThis.

[pemberto]

Also have a look at C:\Program Files\BAE\BAE.DLL

That's the name of the file that caused all the problems. It's code that was developed by Dell. I have just checked and the file is still on the drive even after removing it from the control panel. I'm off to delete the little bugger.