When we manually change the default search engine of IE9, even if it is changed to the new default engine, it is still the current search engine. When we manage the add-on to set the default engine, we find that clicking "set as the default engine" does not respond. The default search engine is part of the user account configuration file. This type of problem occurs generally because the registry key value of the user configuration file is damaged. Www.2cto.com for users who are not familiar with computer operations, we suggest you create a new Administrator account. After the establishment, the system will automatically allocate a lossless user account configuration file for this account. make sure that you have logged on to the computer as an administrator. click Start> Control Panel> User Account> manage other accounts> Create a new account. enter a random name, select "Administrator", and click "create account". Now you can see that your new account is already in the account list. click Start to switch users and log on to the computer with the account you just created. 5. Have you tried to change the default search engine? For users who are familiar with computer operations, we can try to modify the Registry that may be faulty. We will change the current search engine to google as an example to perform the following steps: www.2cto.com ========================================== ==================================== note: this step includes registry operations. before performing the following steps, you should back up your registry to ensure that the problem cannot be solved afterwards, your registry can be restored through the current backup 1. at the same time, press "R key + window key" and enter regedit. When the prompt box is displayed, select "continue ". 2. click the "file" option in the upper left corner, and click "Export" to save the file to the desktop. The file name is optional. The default file format is "register file (*. reg), and click Save ". 3. if the following steps fail to resolve your problem, you can double-click the Registry backup exported in the preceding steps to restore the Registry ========================== ========================================================== ==== 1. confirm that google's search engine is installed (click the triangle on the right side of the magnifier on the right side of the search bar, and confirm that the google icon is listed at the bottom) 2. press "R + Windows key" and enter "regedit" (do not enter quotation marks ). 3. find the following key value HKEY_CURRENT_USER \ Software \ Microsoft \ Internet Explorer \ SearchScopes4. click this key value and find defascope scope on the right, double-click this value to jump out of the editing bar. You can replace the original value with the google value {6A1806CD-94D4-4689-BA73-E35EA1EA9990. 5. Restart IE and enter keywords in the address bar to check whether google displays the results. Www.2cto.com Similarly, if you want to set Baidu as the default search bar, you can change the DefaultScope value to: {B8E20CD7-BAC2-4820-9AA6-1060B3AF25E2} if you want to set it as the default search bar, you can change the value of DefaultScope to {0633EE93-D776-472f-A0FF-E1416B8B2E3A, you can find a computer that can correctly set the default search engine and check the DefaultScope value of HKEY_CURRENT_USER \ Software \ Microsoft \ Internet Explorer \ SearchScopes, then, change the value of your computer to a comparison value. This article is from Wenqi's ladder