Alan Gardiner wrote:

I have the Google toolbar and when I changed my deafult search engine using
internet options it stoped the change and gave me the option of then going
ahead amd changing the option. I have done this and reloaded IE7 after
closing down and the new search engine is the default.

Sadly, when I do that the default reverts to Google. I think it must be
a Google setting somewhere. Still, no real worries. I've now got a
couple of other search engines loaded as tabs on startup.

Graham