Windows – Where does Google Chrome store search engine settings

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I want to know where Google Chrome stores its search engine settings for the Windows XP platform. The reason being; my search engine keeps being changed to SpeedBit and I've thought of just locking up the file to prevent Write access to it. It would only be read-only, on the system level so hopefully that should prevent the annoying search engine change that's happening.

Best Answer

You can use some alternative to speedbit for your downloads like Free Download Manager or Orbit Downloader. However you can try to uninstall the speedbit and then give a try to install it through customize options.

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After selecting the Custom Installation option you can choose either to make it default downloader or not.

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Now uncheck the checked box I think this is what which is installing the search engine on PC. Also see how to set custom search engine in Google Chrome.

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