Set up an Internet Explorer quick search for the Drupal API

The Firefox web browser has a "quick search" feature, which allows you to choose which search engine to use when you type search terms into a box in the browser.

You can set up the same functionality in Internet Explorer [editor's note: not sure which versions]:

1. Create a text file called "ie_search.reg" containing the following lines:
   
   Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\SearchUrl\api]
@="http://api.drupal.org/apis/6/%s"
":"="%3A"
   
   You can substitute a different URL for http://api.drupal.org/apis/6/%s to search a different site.
   
2. Double-click to import it into your registry
3. To use this, open Internet Explorer and type your search into the browser's address bar (e.g.: "api bootstrap").