Create a custom search provider in IE8 for your favorite sites

In Internet Explorer 8 is pretty easy to add a custom search provider for your favorite sites, so you can search on your site using the standard search bar on IE8.

In our company we have a governance tool and several times a day I need to search for requests given their number.

1. Someone send me request ID to review.
2. I open the governance tool.
3. I click search request.
4. I enter the request ID and click search.

To add this search in IE8 I just needed to repeat the previous process using TEST as the request ID on step 1, and then copy the URL of the webpage from the step 4 and paste it on this webpage

And that's it, after you enter a name and press Install you can type you can search on your site using the standard search bar on IE8.

Disable Narrator on Windows 7

I enabled Narrator on Windows 7, just for fun, and it's really annoying and harder to configure than the Mac OSX voice.

So I tried to get rid of it but even when I closed it, Windows 7 reopen it on every restart. Clicking on the Control Panel I found how to disable it for good:

1. Control Panel
2. Ease of Access
3. Ease of Access Center
4. Use the computer without a display
5. Uncheck> Turn on Narrator