Hello, I have no idea what happened. Im using windows 2000
professional and for some reason now when I click start-
search- files and folders nothing happens. No screen comes
up, no beeps, no errors- nothing. I even tried right
clicking on my hard drives and searching that way and
nothing happens. I just used this not 3 hours ago and it
worked fine. I have tried rebooting, but it still doesn't
work.

Any ideas how to fix this? Everything else works fine.

Thanks

Dwayne

I've seen this two ways.

One: The system had picked up an internet worm, which had
trashed part of the OS. I had to run a repair from the
installation CD. Is your antivirus library up to date?

Two: I stupidly took the default option when looking at
permissions on the C:\WINNT\SYSTEM32 directory and reset
permissions on all files, leaving me with insufficient
access to W2K executables. The file search function was
one of the things that disappeared until I got the
permissions restored.

HTH. But don't be surprised if there's a third (and maybe
much simpler) cause.

>-----Original Message-----
>Hello, I have no idea what happened. Im using windows
2000
>professional and for some reason now when I click start-
>search- files and folders nothing happens. No screen
comes
>up, no beeps, no errors- nothing. I even tried right
>clicking on my hard drives and searching that way and
>nothing happens. I just used this not 3 hours ago and it
>worked fine. I have tried rebooting, but it still doesn't
>work.
>
>Any ideas how to fix this? Everything else works fine.
>
>Thanks
>
>Dwayne