I.E.7 is, in many ways, one hell of an improvement on version 6. The ‘Live Search’ box is, to many, quite useful and is easily customized to suit to your preferences with guides to help you along.
What is missing from I.E.7 is the option for users to remove it.
If you have installed a toolbar, why would you want ‘Live Search’?
The way to remove(hide) it is with a registry hack.
One way is to copy the code below to notepad and save it as Something.reg then execute the code by double clicking it. Restart I.E.7 and it should be gone. If ever you want it back then just change the last number in the code to read
dword: 00000000 resave it as Whatever2.reg file and execute it.
REGEDIT4
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Policies\Microsoft\Inte rnet Explorer\Infodelivery\Restrictions]
"NoSearchBox"=dword:00000001
Another way is a little exe file made by the guys at ItelliAdmin. Just download the file and run it then restart I.E.7 and its gone.
Click
Here to download the file.
How To Remove The 'Live Search' Box from I.E.7 
