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This may work for you off another site
The search bar in IE 7 can be convenient. You can customize it to use any search engine you want. Even your own home brew search engine if you want.

IE 7 Search Bar

It can get really annoying if you already have search software installed from Google, or Yahoo. Who wants two search bars when you only need the one you want?

Microsoft never put an option in the settings for IE 7 to disable or remove it, but you can set a registry key to make it go away.

If you open this key:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Policies\Microsoft\Int ernet Explorer\Infodelivery\Restrictions

And create a dword value named "NoSearchBox" and set it to 1. The search box will be gone. Set it back to 0 and it will be back again.

IE 7 Search bar gone
There is also a little program you can run to do the same thing just do a google search for it. Use the reg edit at your own risk>