Add Wikipedia, Google to Vista’s Start Search Box

The Online Tech Tips Blog digs into Vista’s Start Search box—which earned an honorable mention in our recent Hive Five app launcher roundup—and details how to make it even more convenient by adding quick searching of Wikipedia, Google, or nearly any other site with a search interface. We’ve shown you how to perform super-quick “I’m feeling lucky” searches from Start Search, but this tutorial digs into opening up a whole results page. If your Vista lacks a Group Policy Editor, the How-To Geek has a registry-editing solution that should work just as well.