I am even more impressed with Dave's Quick Search Taskbar Toolbar Deskbar. which I discussed a few days ago. This tool is amazing! One regular reader (probably my only reader) mentioned that it was too bad it didn't support various locals other than the US. In actual fact it does. Just add a /uk, for example, and you will search the UK version of google. In fact, I believe you can make this the default via the local preferences file.
One of my favorite features is the ability to use an accelerator key (defaults to WIN+S) to jump into the text box. I have been wanting this feature for the Address bar that can be displayed on the Task bar for years and except for Intelli-sense, this search bar blows away the Address bar.
It turns out that through Windows Shell extensions it is relatively trivial to intercept what the run dialog does. As a result, it would be reasonable simple to add all this functionality to the Run dialog (since the Quick Search Taskbar is open source that is). Hmmm.... Not a bad idea! Now if only I could figure out how to provide an accelerator key to place the cursor into a Task bar docked Address bar. Any insight on how to do this would be most appreciated.
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