Can No Longer Sort Results from Windows-Explorer Search Companion

[JCW]

In Windows XP SP2, a file/folder search from Windows Explorer still works,
EXCEPT that I can no longer sort the results by clicking on the heading of
any column in the "Details" view. Can this be fixed?

I did installed Windows Search 4.0 quite a while ago, but I'm sure that this
sort feature (I'm now using "Click here to use Search Companion" to avoid the
new "Desktop Search") worked just like the old file search facility built
into Explorer in XP, 2000, etc., until recently.

A possibly related issue: In Outlook 2007 I also usually try to avoid
Windows
Search (or "Instant Search," as it's called there) by going to "Tools/Instant
Search/Advanced Find," which looks and works pretty much like the original
Outlook search facility (and the old one in Windows Explorer). BUT although
I can find relevant messages within my main Personal Folders that way, if I
open another PST file (which presumably has not been "indexed" by Windows
Search, although that shouldn't matter), I cannot find anything at all. This
is also a recent problem.

I'm posting this issue again with more detail (Was "File Name/Contents
Search No Longer Useful") in hopes somebody can direct me to the correct
forum for it. (I've tried the Windows Desktop Search Help forum but received
no replies.) Should I be trying to uninstall Windows Search?

I apologize if this got posted more than once. (I seem to be having
problems with the forum this week.) Please help! -- JCW

 

[Jim Cladingboel]

In Windows XP SP2, a file/folder search from Windows Explorer still works,
EXCEPT that I can no longer sort the results by clicking on the heading of
any column in the "Details" view. Can this be fixed?

I did installed Windows Search 4.0 quite a while ago, but I'm sure that
this
sort feature (I'm now using "Click here to use Search Companion" to avoid
the
new "Desktop Search") worked just like the old file search facility built
into Explorer in XP, 2000, etc., until recently.

A possibly related issue: In Outlook 2007 I also usually try to avoid
Windows
Search (or "Instant Search," as it's called there) by going to
"Tools/Instant
Search/Advanced Find," which looks and works pretty much like the original
Outlook search facility (and the old one in Windows Explorer). BUT
although
I can find relevant messages within my main Personal Folders that way, if
I
open another PST file (which presumably has not been "indexed" by Windows
Search, although that shouldn't matter), I cannot find anything at all.
This
is also a recent problem.

I'm posting this issue again with more detail (Was "File Name/Contents
Search No Longer Useful") in hopes somebody can direct me to the correct
forum for it. (I've tried the Windows Desktop Search Help forum but
received
no replies.) Should I be trying to uninstall Windows Search?

I apologize if this got posted more than once. (I seem to be having
problems with the forum this week.) Please help! -- JCW

Can't help with your specific problem but, if you are using NTFS, an
infinitely better search program is the freeware 'Everything'. Find it
on Google, try it and be amazed.
HTH,

Jim.

 

[JCW]

For anyone else who has encountered this problem, I found that the
combination of uninstalling Windows Search 4.0 (dispite the dire, but
apparently irrelevant, warnings about subsequently installed programs that
might use the new feature) and updating XP from SP2 to SP3, in that order --
not sure which change was effective -- solved it. I hadn't found Windows
Search that useful anyhow, and I can again use the good old search pane from
Windows Explorer to sort search results according to any of the displayed
columns.

(Jim -- Thanks for your suggestion, which I have not yet tried.) -- JCW