How to change Location (IE Explorer)

Satori1977

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I use Internet Explorer, I think 7. I also use Bing as my search engine. Whenever I do a search, the top right hand corner says Sign In, a location, and Prefences. It used to actually list my location, my city and state (I live in the US). But lately, it started saying United Kingdom.

Now I wouldn't mind much, but most of the top searches come back as UK websites, which I don't want or need. I don't know how to change this. I tried preferences, but location isn't under there. If I sign in, it doesn't change anything. And I can click on United Kingdom, and change it to the US that way, but it won't stay. For every new search, it goes right back. It is driving me nuts!!
 

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I had this happen because of school in England. Mine was Google, though. I installed XP as UK for my location. In Google, it took a while of changing the address in the URL box, but it learned that I choose US much more frequently than UK now. It probably took a week or two.

I bet there's a registry hack for Windows. I never looked up how to change the system setting; it may even be easier than that.
 

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The settings you're trying to change are in Bing, not IE. It is defaulting to Bing.uk rather than Bing.com.

First, I'd download Internet Explorer 8. It is much safer to run than 7. Doing so will reset all your default settings to what you want them to be.