Saturday, June 23, 2007

Adding Search Providers in IE7

Problem
When you attempt to add a search provider in IE7 you receive the following error:
Error: The search provider could not be installed. This might have happened
because:
- A required file could not be downloaded;
- The website is unavailable;
- You are not connected to the Internet;
You might want to try again later.


Solution
This seems to occur if UAC is enabled. To work around it, right click the IE7 Icon on the quick launch bar and choose Run as administrator, then re-attempt to add the search provider.

1 comment:

Unknown said...

This error occured on my new box, running WinXP Pro.....