How do I stop IE from "Searching" automatically?

[Raistlin]

Ok, server has IE installed as part of the basic install from Windows Server 2003.

I can disable internet access (to all services) for the server from within my router. This means that the server is competely unable to communicate with anything outside of my newtwork. Fine so far.

The problem is that if it does try to connect to a website (I've been fiddling and testing) it (obviously) can't find the site so it goes into "Search Mode" and starts trying all sorts of domain name suffixes and trying to contact the MSN search page (which obviously it can't 'cause none of those services will be available).

Any ideas how I stop this? At work if we try to surf somewhere we shouldn't we get a nice error message telling us that access to that site/all sites is barred. I'm not really bothered about the nicities, I'd just like to stop the searching behaviour.....

Any thoughts?

[iron25]

It's in the Advanced tab under Internet Options. There's an option for 'Do not search from the address bar'.

[Raistlin]

Sorted, thanks for that - knew it had to be there somewhere.