Hello fellow members of AO. Been a while since a last post anyways. Heres the issue. My friend is running windows xp with ie 8 and everytime he opens his "internet explorer" and after the page loads it displays this message;



A Program on your computer has corrupted your default search setting for Internet Explorer.

Internet Explorer has reset this setting to your original search provider.

Internet Explorer will now open Search Settings, where you can change this setting or install more search providers.

Basically, giving him a Search Default Provider Error every time he opens IE.

His default is yahoo. he already has a search provider on his browser. Anyways, I had him open IE, click on tools and down to manage add-ons, then to search providers. We set yahoo as the default, and got rid of the other search providers only leaving yahoo, closed ie & re opened it still same error. Rebooted system, and reset "IE" to the factory settings under the *advanced tab* in internet options. I searched the net and found some registry tweaks but I'm kind of iffy on that with someone elses computer. ----> Is there a way to get rid of this error message everytime he opens IE, all help is greatly appreciated.

P.S the guy is not a fan of mozilla so i'm pretty sure he wants to stick to IE.