Completely Disable Desktop Search?

[John Schneider]

My company is upgrading everyone to Office 2007 and my laptop (XP Pro SP2)was
upgraded yesterday. As part of the Office 2007 install, the new Desktop
Search is installed. I don't like it and don't want it. Its a dog that
slows my system to a crawl. Also, I don't do searches very often, so I don't
mind using the old/slow search technology when I have to search for something.

I've done some searches in this and other newsgroups, and the only 2 things
I could find was a registry hack, where you set the registry key
ShowStartSearchBand in HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows Desktop
Search\DS to zero and disable the "Windows Search" service. I've done that,
rebooted, got the warning message from Outlook, but the desktop search box is
still in my taskbar.

How do I COMPLETELY disable this "feature"?

Thanks!

 

[John Schneider]

In addition to the registry hack and disabling the service, I had to do one
more step:
Right-click on the taskbar, hover on the Toolbars menu item, then uncheck
Windows Search Deskbar.

Now the world is right again...

 

[NEM]

I have a huge issue and I am really unimpressed with Windows Destop Search.
I have removed it and ofcourse my startup time is like new again, but there
is a catch! I love Office 2007 and Outlook, by removing Windows Search
Outlook 2007 is basically inoperable and completely dependent on it.
Therefore I can not live with out it and im stuck. I really only need outlook
for Calendar, and Syncing to my mobile device. Is there anything better for
this?

Is there any setting to change so that it can start at start up, but faster?

 

[011453]

This will allow you to uninstall Windows Desktop Search from your system.
Run this from a dos prompt.
C:\WINDOWS\$NtUninstallKB917013$\spuninst\spuninst.exe /passive