IE6 - How to disable the function Search (Ctrl+E) (WXP-Pro)

[leetuaan]

Hi,
Can you please help me. I have IE 6.0.2900.2180.xpsp_sp2_gdr.050301-1519 with Windows XP SP 2. I want to (and I have to) disable the function Search (by Ctrl+E or by Menu View=>...).
Thanks a lots.

[motoflop]

Perhaps only way to do it is to hack your IE. So you search and download Resource Hacker, which allows you to edit program resources like hotkey accelerators. Then you search all exe and dll files used by IE and locate which of those files contains that ctrl-e accelerator definition. Next you make copy of aaffected file and then change it. If that file is protected by windows file protection, you have to handle that too.

You might loose your changes whenever you run windows update, because windows updates are usually related to IE. So at worst case you have to redo your resource editing after every windows update. You can propably put changed files to another folder, but then windows update cannot update your IE and your risk your computer if IE has severe security holes.

So I don't recommend hacking IE that way. I would rather think about using Mozilla Firefox or other browsers instead of IE.