Search Assistant Not Working Right

[Jim Byrd]

Hi Jan - Did you try my .reg file on this?


Download and run:
http://www.kellys-korner-xp.com/regs_edits/RestoreSearch2.REG to restore
your default Search functionality and reset your prefixes. You'll have to
manually re-select any Search Customizations you may have had, however.

--
Regards, Jim Byrd, MS-MVP/DTS/AH-VSOP
My Blog, Defending Your Machine, here:
http://DefendingYourMachine.blogspot.com/

As of this time, the Search has changed back to it was earlier this morning.
None of the Customize settings will work, and everything just hangs up
again.

Hope this helps.

Jan
MS MVP - Windows IE/OE [DTS/AumHa]
Smiles are meant to be shared,
that's why they're so contagious.

Replies are posted only to the newsgroup for the benefit or other readers.
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They just now changed here, or at least within the last hour. I see the
same search list I did a few days ago when I first checked it due to
Anna's post. It then changed the Customize to only two selections, Search
Assistant and Use one search service. No list boxes, and when I tried to
select one of the choices, they would not work. When I clicked OK, it
just brought the search list up again, and all that was in it was the
search window and the GO button.

Now, I see the same Search window in the panel, but, the Customize is as
it was before.

Hope this helps.

Jan
MS MVP - Windows IE/OE [DTS/AumHa]
Smiles are meant to be shared,
that's why they're so contagious.

Check again today and see if things have changed at all. They have here.
Why? I have no idea.
--
~Robear Dyer (PA Bear)
MS MVP-Windows (IE/OE, Security, Shell/User)

PA Bear wrote:
See these recent threads: http://snipurl.com/f05w

Yes, Search Assistant has changed. No, we don't know how or why. (This
may
have something to do with it:
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/business/260821_msftads25.html.) No,
there
doesn't seem to be a way of getting the old Search Assistant back.

Steve Horrillo wrote:
I notice the Search Assistant isn't working right anymore. "Next" is
now
greyed out and will only let me use one chosen search engine. This has
happened on my XP as well as my Win 2000 machine. What's wrong?

 

[Anna]

I just tried it an now I only have that stupid dog and it won't let me get
rid of him and his features. LOL

Hi Jan - Did you try my .reg file on this?


Download and run:
http://www.kellys-korner-xp.com/regs_edits/RestoreSearch2.REG to restore
your default Search functionality and reset your prefixes. You'll have to
manually re-select any Search Customizations you may have had, however.

--
Regards, Jim Byrd, MS-MVP/DTS/AH-VSOP
My Blog, Defending Your Machine, here:
http://DefendingYourMachine.blogspot.com/

As of this time, the Search has changed back to it was earlier this morning.
None of the Customize settings will work, and everything just hangs up
again.

Hope this helps.

Jan
MS MVP - Windows IE/OE [DTS/AumHa]
Smiles are meant to be shared,
that's why they're so contagious.

Replies are posted only to the newsgroup for the benefit or other
readers.
How to make a good newsgroup post:
http://www.dts-l.org/goodpost.htm

They just now changed here, or at least within the last hour. I see the
same search list I did a few days ago when I first checked it due to
Anna's post. It then changed the Customize to only two selections, Search
Assistant and Use one search service. No list boxes, and when I tried
to
select one of the choices, they would not work. When I clicked OK, it
just brought the search list up again, and all that was in it was the
search window and the GO button.

Now, I see the same Search window in the panel, but, the Customize is as
it was before.

Hope this helps.

Jan
MS MVP - Windows IE/OE [DTS/AumHa]
Smiles are meant to be shared,
that's why they're so contagious.


Check again today and see if things have changed at all. They have here.
Why? I have no idea.
--
~Robear Dyer (PA Bear)
MS MVP-Windows (IE/OE, Security, Shell/User)

PA Bear wrote:
See these recent threads: http://snipurl.com/f05w

Yes, Search Assistant has changed. No, we don't know how or why. (This
may
have something to do with it:
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/business/260821_msftads25.html.) No,
there
doesn't seem to be a way of getting the old Search Assistant back.

Steve Horrillo wrote:
I notice the Search Assistant isn't working right anymore. "Next" is
now
greyed out and will only let me use one chosen search engine. This
has
happened on my XP as well as my Win 2000 machine. What's wrong?

 

[Jan Il]

Hi Jim

Hi Jan - Did you try my .reg file on this?

I just did, and there is no change. It appears to come and go, full seach
features and all, then suddenly, back to the 2 and on-going loading.

Thank you very much for the file.

Hope this helps.

Jan
MS MVP - Windows IE/OE [DTS/AumHa]
Smiles are meant to be shared,
that's why they're so contagious.

Download and run:
http://www.kellys-korner-xp.com/regs_edits/RestoreSearch2.REG to restore
your default Search functionality and reset your prefixes. You'll have to
manually re-select any Search Customizations you may have had, however.

--
Regards, Jim Byrd, MS-MVP/DTS/AH-VSOP
My Blog, Defending Your Machine, here:
http://DefendingYourMachine.blogspot.com/

As of this time, the Search has changed back to it was earlier this morning.
None of the Customize settings will work, and everything just hangs up
again.

Hope this helps.

Jan
MS MVP - Windows IE/OE [DTS/AumHa]
Smiles are meant to be shared,
that's why they're so contagious.

Replies are posted only to the newsgroup for the benefit or other
readers.
How to make a good newsgroup post:
http://www.dts-l.org/goodpost.htm

They just now changed here, or at least within the last hour. I see the
same search list I did a few days ago when I first checked it due to
Anna's post. It then changed the Customize to only two selections, Search
Assistant and Use one search service. No list boxes, and when I tried
to
select one of the choices, they would not work. When I clicked OK, it
just brought the search list up again, and all that was in it was the
search window and the GO button.

Now, I see the same Search window in the panel, but, the Customize is as
it was before.

Hope this helps.

Jan
MS MVP - Windows IE/OE [DTS/AumHa]
Smiles are meant to be shared,
that's why they're so contagious.


Check again today and see if things have changed at all. They have here.
Why? I have no idea.
--
~Robear Dyer (PA Bear)
MS MVP-Windows (IE/OE, Security, Shell/User)

PA Bear wrote:
See these recent threads: http://snipurl.com/f05w

Yes, Search Assistant has changed. No, we don't know how or why. (This
may
have something to do with it:
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/business/260821_msftads25.html.) No,
there
doesn't seem to be a way of getting the old Search Assistant back.

Steve Horrillo wrote:
I notice the Search Assistant isn't working right anymore. "Next" is
now
greyed out and will only let me use one chosen search engine. This
has
happened on my XP as well as my Win 2000 machine. What's wrong?

 

[Jan Il]

It is going from one to another state of appearance. It was fine this
morning, and by 2:00p was back to just the two choices, neither of which
will work. It is not just in XP either, or W98. I have a friend who has
W2K and it is fine on their machine.

It really is a strange situation.

Jan

hmm...

I just tried it an now I only have that stupid dog and it won't let me
get
rid of him and his features. LOL

Hi Jan - Did you try my .reg file on this?


Download and run:
http://www.kellys-korner-xp.com/regs_edits/RestoreSearch2.REG to restore
your default Search functionality and reset your prefixes. You'll have
to
manually re-select any Search Customizations you may have had, however.

--
Regards, Jim Byrd, MS-MVP/DTS/AH-VSOP
My Blog, Defending Your Machine, here:
http://DefendingYourMachine.blogspot.com/



As of this time, the Search has changed back to it was earlier this
morning. None of the Customize settings will work, and everything just
hangs up again.

Hope this helps.

Jan
MS MVP - Windows IE/OE [DTS/AumHa]
Smiles are meant to be shared,
that's why they're so contagious.

Replies are posted only to the newsgroup for the benefit or other
readers.
How to make a good newsgroup post:
http://www.dts-l.org/goodpost.htm


They just now changed here, or at least within the last hour. I see
the
same search list I did a few days ago when I first checked it due to
Anna's post. It then changed the Customize to only two selections,
Search Assistant and Use one search service. No list boxes, and when
I
tried to
select one of the choices, they would not work. When I clicked OK, it
just brought the search list up again, and all that was in it was the
search window and the GO button.

Now, I see the same Search window in the panel, but, the Customize is
as
it was before.

Hope this helps.

Jan
MS MVP - Windows IE/OE [DTS/AumHa]
Smiles are meant to be shared,
that's why they're so contagious.


Check again today and see if things have changed at all. They have
here. Why? I have no idea.
--
~Robear Dyer (PA Bear)
MS MVP-Windows (IE/OE, Security, Shell/User)

PA Bear wrote:
See these recent threads: http://snipurl.com/f05w

Yes, Search Assistant has changed. No, we don't know how or why.
(This
may
have something to do with it:
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/business/260821_msftads25.html.) No,
there
doesn't seem to be a way of getting the old Search Assistant back.

Steve Horrillo wrote:
I notice the Search Assistant isn't working right anymore. "Next"
is
now
greyed out and will only let me use one chosen search engine. This
has
happened on my XP as well as my Win 2000 machine. What's wrong?

 

[Jan Il]

Hi Robert

If you're just seeing Loading... you may need to do a Refresh.
E.g. right-click Refresh if the search bar still allows that.

Otherwise use the equivalent URL that the Search bar is rendering
in a separate browser window. Then you will be able to Refresh it.

<example>
http://ie.search.msn.com/en-us/srchasst/srchcust.htm

(Alter the en-us appropriately depending on your Language preference.)
</example>

I have tried that, one of the first things I did try. What happens is that,
the moment that the Customize window opens, the screen as you show below
opens and the Loading is already displayed and looks as if it is trying to
load, but, it is actaully doing nothing. When I click on one of the radio
buttoms to select one of the two choices, and then click OK, it immediately
kicks me out of the Customize window and I am back to the Search window and
GO button.

FWIW doing that allows me to change from XP's default
search bar setting of Search Companion to Search Assistant
(or Search using one search service...) AND change providers.

It will not do anything here. And the Search window I am getting now does
not look at all like the regular Search Window. It says MSN and a butterfly
over the word Search above the window with a big green GO button at the end
of the window. It does not look like the search window I have seen in that
panel before.

But....I admit that I have not used the IE Search feature for several years,
but, do reference it now and then to check out how things are when I am
assisting a poster, such as in Anna an the others case with this issue. That
is why I noticed how it has been behaving, or I should say, mis-behaving. I
took some screen shots of what I have on my end, and sent them to my Lead
who had forwarded them to the appropriate folks at MS, and they are seeing
the similar problems on their end too.

With IE7b2p installed the Search Explorer bar is no longer
supported. So with it I have to simulate the use of it
(without the buttons) by opening

http://ie.search.msn.com/en-us/srchasst/srchasst.htm

This is similar, or the same, as what used to be on my end when I would
click the Search button on the Toolbar, and the panel on the left side of
the screen would open. Nothing like that now.

However, as previously mentioned, code to implement the Next button
appears not to be present in the srchasst.htm page anyway.

Yes...even when the regular 3 choices and seemingly regular selections lists
are present in the Customize section are present, the Next button is always
grayed out.

What seems strange to me, is the frequency with which the changes seem to
take place, at least on my end. They may change, as they did today, a
couple of times back and forth, and then, as most of last week, not at all.
But, at all times, the Next button is never functional.

Jan
MS MVP - Windows IE/OE [DTS/AumHa

 

[Jan Il]

Hi PA Bear

It didn't do what "Anna" wanted it to do when she tried it from my post in
her thread at Aumha Forums, Jim. I think "something" definitely has
changed.

Yes....I firmly agree. In view of the random changes that are taking place,
now you see it, now you don't, and the various versions of Windows that it
is affecting, it seems to go beyond an update related problem.

Jan
MS MVP - Windows IE/OE [DTS/AumHa

--
~PA Bear

Hi Jan - Did you try my .reg file on this?


Download and run:
http://www.kellys-korner-xp.com/regs_edits/RestoreSearch2.REG to restore
your default Search functionality and reset your prefixes. You'll have
to
manually re-select any Search Customizations you may have had, however.

As of this time, the Search has changed back to it was earlier this
morning. None of the Customize settings will work, and everything just
hangs up again.

Hope this helps.

Jan
MS MVP - Windows IE/OE [DTS/AumHa]
Smiles are meant to be shared,
that's why they're so contagious.

Replies are posted only to the newsgroup for the benefit or other
readers.
How to make a good newsgroup post:
http://www.dts-l.org/goodpost.htm


They just now changed here, or at least within the last hour. I see
the
same search list I did a few days ago when I first checked it due to
Anna's post. It then changed the Customize to only two selections,
Search
Assistant and Use one search service. No list boxes, and when I tried
to
select one of the choices, they would not work. When I clicked OK, it
just brought the search list up again, and all that was in it was the
search window and the GO button.

Now, I see the same Search window in the panel, but, the Customize is
as
it was before.

Hope this helps.

Jan
MS MVP - Windows IE/OE [DTS/AumHa]
Smiles are meant to be shared,
that's why they're so contagious.


Check again today and see if things have changed at all. They have
here.
Why? I have no idea.
--
~Robear Dyer (PA Bear)
MS MVP-Windows (IE/OE, Security, Shell/User)

PA Bear wrote:
See these recent threads: http://snipurl.com/f05w

Yes, Search Assistant has changed. No, we don't know how or why.
(This
may
have something to do with it:
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/business/260821_msftads25.html.) No,
there
doesn't seem to be a way of getting the old Search Assistant back.

Steve Horrillo wrote:
I notice the Search Assistant isn't working right anymore. "Next" is
now
greyed out and will only let me use one chosen search engine. This
has
happened on my XP as well as my Win 2000 machine. What's wrong?

 

[Jan Il]

I just tried it an now I only have that stupid dog and it won't let me get
rid of him and his features. LOL

Huh! At least you get the dog. I get only a gaping window... ;o))

Besides....I feel the choice of a dog is biased. I prefer cats, and would
like to have a choice of a kitty instead of that dog that likes to draw
endless paw-circles! <g>

Jan
MS MVP - Windows IE/OE [DTS/AumHa

Hi Jan - Did you try my .reg file on this?


Download and run:
http://www.kellys-korner-xp.com/regs_edits/RestoreSearch2.REG to restore
your default Search functionality and reset your prefixes. You'll have
to
manually re-select any Search Customizations you may have had, however.

--
Regards, Jim Byrd, MS-MVP/DTS/AH-VSOP
My Blog, Defending Your Machine, here:
http://DefendingYourMachine.blogspot.com/

As of this time, the Search has changed back to it was earlier this morning.
None of the Customize settings will work, and everything just hangs up
again.

Hope this helps.

Jan
MS MVP - Windows IE/OE [DTS/AumHa]
Smiles are meant to be shared,
that's why they're so contagious.

Replies are posted only to the newsgroup for the benefit or other
readers.
How to make a good newsgroup post:
http://www.dts-l.org/goodpost.htm


They just now changed here, or at least within the last hour. I see
the
same search list I did a few days ago when I first checked it due to
Anna's post. It then changed the Customize to only two selections, Search
Assistant and Use one search service. No list boxes, and when I tried
to
select one of the choices, they would not work. When I clicked OK, it
just brought the search list up again, and all that was in it was the
search window and the GO button.

Now, I see the same Search window in the panel, but, the Customize is
as
it was before.

Hope this helps.

Jan
MS MVP - Windows IE/OE [DTS/AumHa]
Smiles are meant to be shared,
that's why they're so contagious.


Check again today and see if things have changed at all. They have here.
Why? I have no idea.
--
~Robear Dyer (PA Bear)
MS MVP-Windows (IE/OE, Security, Shell/User)

PA Bear wrote:
See these recent threads: http://snipurl.com/f05w

Yes, Search Assistant has changed. No, we don't know how or why. (This
may
have something to do with it:
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/business/260821_msftads25.html.) No,
there
doesn't seem to be a way of getting the old Search Assistant back.

Steve Horrillo wrote:
I notice the Search Assistant isn't working right anymore. "Next" is
now
greyed out and will only let me use one chosen search engine. This
has
happened on my XP as well as my Win 2000 machine. What's wrong?

 

[Jim Byrd]

Oops! Sorry 'bout that!

--
Regards, Jim Byrd, MS-MVP/DTS/AH-VSOP
My Blog, Defending Your Machine, here:
http://DefendingYourMachine.blogspot.com/



|| I just tried it an now I only have that stupid dog and it won't let me
get
|| rid of him and his features. LOL
||
|| ||| Hi Jan - Did you try my .reg file on this?
|||
|||
||| Download and run:
||| http://www.kellys-korner-xp.com/regs_edits/RestoreSearch2.REG to restore
||| your default Search functionality and reset your prefixes. You'll have
to
||| manually re-select any Search Customizations you may have had, however.
|||
||| --
||| Regards, Jim Byrd, MS-MVP/DTS/AH-VSOP
||| My Blog, Defending Your Machine, here:
||| http://DefendingYourMachine.blogspot.com/
|||
|||
|||
||| |||| As of this time, the Search has changed back to it was earlier this
morning.
|||| None of the Customize settings will work, and everything just hangs up
|||| again.
||||
|||| Hope this helps.
||||
|||| Jan
|||| MS MVP - Windows IE/OE [DTS/AumHa]
|||| Smiles are meant to be shared,
|||| that's why they're so contagious.
||||
|||| Replies are posted only to the newsgroup for the benefit or other
|||| readers.
|||| How to make a good newsgroup post:
|||| http://www.dts-l.org/goodpost.htm
||||
||||
|||| ||||| They just now changed here, or at least within the last hour. I see
the
||||| same search list I did a few days ago when I first checked it due to
||||| Anna's post. It then changed the Customize to only two selections,
Search
||||| Assistant and Use one search service. No list boxes, and when I tried
||||| to
||||| select one of the choices, they would not work. When I clicked OK, it
||||| just brought the search list up again, and all that was in it was the
||||| search window and the GO button.
|||||
||||| Now, I see the same Search window in the panel, but, the Customize is
as
||||| it was before.
|||||
||||| Hope this helps.
|||||
||||| Jan
||||| MS MVP - Windows IE/OE [DTS/AumHa]
||||| Smiles are meant to be shared,
||||| that's why they're so contagious.
|||||
|||||
||||| |||||| Check again today and see if things have changed at all. They have
here.
|||||| Why? I have no idea.
|||||| --
|||||| ~Robear Dyer (PA Bear)
|||||| MS MVP-Windows (IE/OE, Security, Shell/User)
||||||
|||||| PA Bear wrote:
||||||| See these recent threads: http://snipurl.com/f05w
|||||||
||||||| Yes, Search Assistant has changed. No, we don't know how or why.
(This
||||||| may
||||||| have something to do with it:
||||||| http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/business/260821_msftads25.html.) No,
||||||| there
||||||| doesn't seem to be a way of getting the old Search Assistant back.
|||||||
||||||| Steve Horrillo wrote:
|||||||| I notice the Search Assistant isn't working right anymore. "Next"
is
|||||||| now
|||||||| greyed out and will only let me use one chosen search engine. This
|||||||| has
|||||||| happened on my XP as well as my Win 2000 machine. What's wrong?

 

[Jim Byrd]

Yeah, I agree Bear - looking at the rest of the thread something's clearly
out of kilter beyond a normal .reg reset. I wonder if a Tools|Internet
Options|Programs| "Reset Web Settings" or a Repair IE:


"3. Another alternative for just IE6 repair if you don't have IE6 listed in
Add-Remove Programs, then in Start|Run then enter

"rundll32 setupwbv.dll,IE6Maintenance"

without the quotes, exactly as shown (it's case sensitive), and select the
appropriate entry. More detailed info is available here: Description of
the Internet Explorer Repair Tool
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;q194177 (You may
have to re-install Sun Java JRE if you had it installed afterwards, BTW.)"


would work, or has this already been tried somewhere along the way?


--
Regards, Jim Byrd, MS-MVP/DTS/AH-VSOP
My Blog, Defending Your Machine, here:
http://DefendingYourMachine.blogspot.com/



|| It didn't do what "Anna" wanted it to do when she tried it from my post
in her
|| thread at Aumha Forums, Jim. I think "something" definitely has
changed. --
|| ~PA Bear
||
|| Jim Byrd wrote:
||| Hi Jan - Did you try my .reg file on this?
|||
|||
||| Download and run:
||| http://www.kellys-korner-xp.com/regs_edits/RestoreSearch2.REG to restore
||| your default Search functionality and reset your prefixes. You'll have
to
||| manually re-select any Search Customizations you may have had, however.
|||
|||
||| |||| As of this time, the Search has changed back to it was earlier this
|||| morning. None of the Customize settings will work, and everything just
|||| hangs up again.
||||
|||| Hope this helps.
||||
|||| Jan
|||| MS MVP - Windows IE/OE [DTS/AumHa]
|||| Smiles are meant to be shared,
|||| that's why they're so contagious.
||||
|||| Replies are posted only to the newsgroup for the benefit or other
readers.
|||| How to make a good newsgroup post:
|||| http://www.dts-l.org/goodpost.htm
||||
||||
|||| ||||| They just now changed here, or at least within the last hour. I see
the
||||| same search list I did a few days ago when I first checked it due to
||||| Anna's post. It then changed the Customize to only two selections,
Search
||||| Assistant and Use one search service. No list boxes, and when I tried
to
||||| select one of the choices, they would not work. When I clicked OK, it
||||| just brought the search list up again, and all that was in it was the
||||| search window and the GO button.
|||||
||||| Now, I see the same Search window in the panel, but, the Customize is
as
||||| it was before.
|||||
||||| Hope this helps.
|||||
||||| Jan
||||| MS MVP - Windows IE/OE [DTS/AumHa]
||||| Smiles are meant to be shared,
||||| that's why they're so contagious.
|||||
|||||
||||| |||||| Check again today and see if things have changed at all. They have
here.
|||||| Why? I have no idea.
|||||| --
|||||| ~Robear Dyer (PA Bear)
|||||| MS MVP-Windows (IE/OE, Security, Shell/User)
||||||
|||||| PA Bear wrote:
||||||| See these recent threads: http://snipurl.com/f05w
|||||||
||||||| Yes, Search Assistant has changed. No, we don't know how or why.
(This
||||||| may
||||||| have something to do with it:
||||||| http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/business/260821_msftads25.html.) No,
||||||| there
||||||| doesn't seem to be a way of getting the old Search Assistant back.
|||||||
||||||| Steve Horrillo wrote:
|||||||| I notice the Search Assistant isn't working right anymore. "Next"
is
|||||||| now
|||||||| greyed out and will only let me use one chosen search engine. This
has
|||||||| happened on my XP as well as my Win 2000 machine. What's wrong?

 

[Anna]

After all that I have tried in the last week or so, I was taken down by
Norton's Goback feature. It locked up my computer and sent me into a
vicious circle of errors, couldn't even start in safe mode. I just gave up
after searching around for help and seeing so many people complaining about
goback. Can't disable something if you can't get to it.
The point of all of this is I use my system restore disk that I made when
this computer was new (Oct.) I still have the same problem with the search
that I had before. So I don't think anything that I could try or do would
fix it.
It is coming from some where on the net. Maybe it was hijacked and
Microsoft hasn't figured it out yet? The way it changes so many times a
day, makes you wonder if someone with a sick sense of humor is in control of
it.
Anna

Yeah, I agree Bear - looking at the rest of the thread something's clearly
out of kilter beyond a normal .reg reset. I wonder if a Tools|Internet
Options|Programs| "Reset Web Settings" or a Repair IE:


"3. Another alternative for just IE6 repair if you don't have IE6 listed
in
Add-Remove Programs, then in Start|Run then enter

"rundll32 setupwbv.dll,IE6Maintenance"

without the quotes, exactly as shown (it's case sensitive), and select the
appropriate entry. More detailed info is available here: Description of
the Internet Explorer Repair Tool
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;q194177 (You may
have to re-install Sun Java JRE if you had it installed afterwards, BTW.)"


would work, or has this already been tried somewhere along the way?


--
Regards, Jim Byrd, MS-MVP/DTS/AH-VSOP
My Blog, Defending Your Machine, here:
http://DefendingYourMachine.blogspot.com/



|| It didn't do what "Anna" wanted it to do when she tried it from my post
in her
|| thread at Aumha Forums, Jim. I think "something" definitely has
changed. --
|| ~PA Bear
||
|| Jim Byrd wrote:
||| Hi Jan - Did you try my .reg file on this?
|||
|||
||| Download and run:
||| http://www.kellys-korner-xp.com/regs_edits/RestoreSearch2.REG to
restore
||| your default Search functionality and reset your prefixes. You'll
have
to
||| manually re-select any Search Customizations you may have had,
however.
|||
|||
||| |||| As of this time, the Search has changed back to it was earlier this
|||| morning. None of the Customize settings will work, and everything
just
|||| hangs up again.
||||
|||| Hope this helps.
||||
|||| Jan
|||| MS MVP - Windows IE/OE [DTS/AumHa]
|||| Smiles are meant to be shared,
|||| that's why they're so contagious.
||||
|||| Replies are posted only to the newsgroup for the benefit or other
readers.
|||| How to make a good newsgroup post:
|||| http://www.dts-l.org/goodpost.htm
||||
||||
|||| ||||| They just now changed here, or at least within the last hour. I see
the
||||| same search list I did a few days ago when I first checked it due to
||||| Anna's post. It then changed the Customize to only two selections,
Search
||||| Assistant and Use one search service. No list boxes, and when I
tried
to
||||| select one of the choices, they would not work. When I clicked OK,
it
||||| just brought the search list up again, and all that was in it was
the
||||| search window and the GO button.
|||||
||||| Now, I see the same Search window in the panel, but, the Customize
is
as
||||| it was before.
|||||
||||| Hope this helps.
|||||
||||| Jan
||||| MS MVP - Windows IE/OE [DTS/AumHa]
||||| Smiles are meant to be shared,
||||| that's why they're so contagious.
|||||
|||||
||||| |||||| Check again today and see if things have changed at all. They have
here.
|||||| Why? I have no idea.
|||||| --
|||||| ~Robear Dyer (PA Bear)
|||||| MS MVP-Windows (IE/OE, Security, Shell/User)
||||||
|||||| PA Bear wrote:
||||||| See these recent threads: http://snipurl.com/f05w
|||||||
||||||| Yes, Search Assistant has changed. No, we don't know how or why.
(This
||||||| may
||||||| have something to do with it:
||||||| http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/business/260821_msftads25.html.)
No,
||||||| there
||||||| doesn't seem to be a way of getting the old Search Assistant back.
|||||||
||||||| Steve Horrillo wrote:
|||||||| I notice the Search Assistant isn't working right anymore. "Next"
is
|||||||| now
|||||||| greyed out and will only let me use one chosen search engine.
This
has
|||||||| happened on my XP as well as my Win 2000 machine. What's wrong?

 

[Jan Il]

Yeah, I agree Bear - looking at the rest of the thread something's clearly
out of kilter beyond a normal .reg reset. I wonder if a Tools|Internet
Options|Programs| "Reset Web Settings" or a Repair IE:

The one thing that gets me is that is it not limited to one type of OS, it
seems to be affecting them all across the board, and yet, not all Users. And
it comes and goes. So....how the heck do you nail it down? It does seem to
be Internet generated, but, why not all Users?

"3. Another alternative for just IE6 repair if you don't have IE6 listed
in
Add-Remove Programs, then in Start|Run then enter

"rundll32 setupwbv.dll,IE6Maintenance"

without the quotes, exactly as shown (it's case sensitive), and select the
appropriate entry. More detailed info is available here: Description of
the Internet Explorer Repair Tool
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;q194177 (You may
have to re-install Sun Java JRE if you had it installed afterwards, BTW.)"


would work, or has this already been tried somewhere along the way?

IIRC, somewhere along the way in one of the threads here or the AumHa forum,
I or someone else did recommend doing a repair, and AIRC it did not resolve
the problem. I am really pretty sure at this point, given that I am
experiencing the same situation as the OPs that is it not a problem with the
PC's, program or update. We are not all using the same OS, firewall, AV or
other such programs, the only link is IE. However, there too, is a
difference, as some only have IE6 SP1, and some of us have IE SP2. ????

Jan
MS MVP - Windows IE/OE [DTS/AumHa

--
Regards, Jim Byrd, MS-MVP/DTS/AH-VSOP
My Blog, Defending Your Machine, here:
http://DefendingYourMachine.blogspot.com/



|| It didn't do what "Anna" wanted it to do when she tried it from my post
in her
|| thread at Aumha Forums, Jim. I think "something" definitely has
changed. --
|| ~PA Bear
||
|| Jim Byrd wrote:
||| Hi Jan - Did you try my .reg file on this?
|||
|||
||| Download and run:
||| http://www.kellys-korner-xp.com/regs_edits/RestoreSearch2.REG to
restore
||| your default Search functionality and reset your prefixes. You'll
have
to
||| manually re-select any Search Customizations you may have had,
however.
|||
|||
||| |||| As of this time, the Search has changed back to it was earlier this
|||| morning. None of the Customize settings will work, and everything
just
|||| hangs up again.
||||
|||| Hope this helps.
||||
|||| Jan
|||| MS MVP - Windows IE/OE [DTS/AumHa]
|||| Smiles are meant to be shared,
|||| that's why they're so contagious.
||||
|||| Replies are posted only to the newsgroup for the benefit or other
readers.
|||| How to make a good newsgroup post:
|||| http://www.dts-l.org/goodpost.htm
||||
||||
|||| ||||| They just now changed here, or at least within the last hour. I see
the
||||| same search list I did a few days ago when I first checked it due to
||||| Anna's post. It then changed the Customize to only two selections,
Search
||||| Assistant and Use one search service. No list boxes, and when I
tried
to
||||| select one of the choices, they would not work. When I clicked OK,
it
||||| just brought the search list up again, and all that was in it was
the
||||| search window and the GO button.
|||||
||||| Now, I see the same Search window in the panel, but, the Customize
is
as
||||| it was before.
|||||
||||| Hope this helps.
|||||
||||| Jan
||||| MS MVP - Windows IE/OE [DTS/AumHa]
||||| Smiles are meant to be shared,
||||| that's why they're so contagious.
|||||
|||||
||||| |||||| Check again today and see if things have changed at all. They have
here.
|||||| Why? I have no idea.
|||||| --
|||||| ~Robear Dyer (PA Bear)
|||||| MS MVP-Windows (IE/OE, Security, Shell/User)
||||||
|||||| PA Bear wrote:
||||||| See these recent threads: http://snipurl.com/f05w
|||||||
||||||| Yes, Search Assistant has changed. No, we don't know how or why.
(This
||||||| may
||||||| have something to do with it:
||||||| http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/business/260821_msftads25.html.)
No,
||||||| there
||||||| doesn't seem to be a way of getting the old Search Assistant back.
|||||||
||||||| Steve Horrillo wrote:
|||||||| I notice the Search Assistant isn't working right anymore. "Next"
is
|||||||| now
|||||||| greyed out and will only let me use one chosen search engine.
This
has
|||||||| happened on my XP as well as my Win 2000 machine. What's wrong?

 

[Jim Byrd]

Hi Jan - Well, the single common element you describe is core IE exclusive
of SP1 or 2. Here's my full "fix IE" post - maybe something in it will
suggest something:


There is no direct Repair function for IE6 in XP. Here are some
alternatives:

First try this courtesy of MVP Ramesh Srinivasan:
http://windowsxp.mvps.org/IEFIX.htm

Then try each of the following:

1. If you're on XP SP2, try the following suggestions from KB 870700, here:
How to troubleshoot problems accessing secure Web pages with Internet
Explorer 6 Service Pack 2, http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=870700#9
first. Don't worry that your problem isn't specifically secure-page
related - these extracted below are general fix steps for the most part.
Check to see if your problem remains after each:

a. Turn off the pop-up blocker
Internet Explorer SP2 includes the ability to block pop-up windows. This new
feature may block some Web pages. To turn off the Pop-Up Blocker, follow
these steps:

1) On the Tools menu in Internet Explorer, click Internet Options, and then
click the General tab.
2) Click the Privacy tab.
3) In the Pop-Up Blocker section, click to clear the Block pop-ups check
box.
4) Click Apply.
5) Click OK.

b. Delete the contents of the Temporary Internet Files folder
If a copy of the Web page is in the Temporary Internet Files folder, the
page may not display as expected. To resolve this problem, you must delete
the contents of this folder. To do this, follow these steps:

1) On the Tools menu in Internet Explorer, click Internet Options, and then
click the General tab.
2) Click Delete Cookies, and then click OK.
3) Click Delete Files, and then click OK.
4) Click Clear History, and then click Yes.
5) Click OK.

c. Third-party browser extensions
Some third-party browser extensions and add-ons may interfere with how
Internet Explorer views certain Web pages. To turn off these extensions,
follow these steps:

1) Click Start, right-click Internet Explorer, and then click Internet
Properties.
2) Click the Advanced tab.
3) Click to clear the Enable third-party browser extensions (requires
restart) check box.
4) Click Apply.
5) Click Ok.
6) Start Internet Explorer, and then try to reproduce the issue.

d. Reset the Security Zones to the default settings:

1) On the Tools menu in Internet Explorer, click Internet Options, and then
click the Security tab.
2) Click Internet, and then click Default Level.
3) Click Local Intranet, and then click Default Level.
4) Click Trusted sites, and then click Default Level.
5) Click Restricted sites, and then click Default Level.
6) Click Apply.
7) On the Privacy tab, click Default, and then click Apply.

2. Then you need to go (as an Administrator) to Start|Run and type "sfc
/scannow" (without the quotes and notice the space between the c and the /.)
Have your XP CD handy and be prepared to go get a cup of coffee - it takes a
while. This will do the same thing as Repair IE6 for XP but a lot more,
that is find any corrupt system files and replace them. It does NOT,
however, re-register the various software components, and you will need to
do this manually using regsvr32.exe if any are shown as replaced in
Event Viewer|System.

Be aware that under certain circumstances (Win2k before SP4 - see mskb
814510, http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;Q814510) sfc
can erroneously overwrite (restore over) previously installed files from
certain "hotfixes" which will then need to be re-installed. This may also
apply to XP. To check for this, after running sfc, open a Cmd window and
enter "qfecheck /v /l:c:\" (without the quotes). If you don't have qfecheck
installed, it can be obtained for XP here:
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/release.asp?ReleaseID=35468 and for Win2k
here: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/release.asp?ReleaseID=35470 A
version stated to be common to both is available here:
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/...FamilyID=155C7C58-102E-47B0-A12A-BFAB8CFCCC03 Further information about qfecheck is
available here: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/282784/EN/



3. Another alternative for just IE6 repair if you don't have IE6 listed in
Add-Remove Programs, then in Start|Run then enter

"rundll32 setupwbv.dll,IE6Maintenance"

without the quotes, exactly as shown (it's case sensitive), and select the
appropriate entry. More detailed info is available here: Description of
the Internet Explorer Repair Tool
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;q194177 (You may
have to re-install Sun Java JRE if you had it installed afterwards, BTW.)



4. If you find that you need to do a re-install of IE6 then you can
consider the following:

1) Insert the Windows installation CD in your CD-ROM drive.
2) Click Start, and click Run.
3) Copy the command prompt below in the Open box (exactly as shown - it's
case sensitive), and click OK. (Assumes %System% is installed in Windows on
your C:\ partition. Change as appropriate for your particular situation.)

rundll32.exe setupapi,InstallHinfSection DefaultInstall 132
c:\windows\inf\ie.inf

4) It will display a "File Needed" screen, click "Browse.." and browse to
<CD-ROM drive>\i386, (where <CD-ROM drive> is the drive letter of the
CD-ROM, For example, D.

5) Click Open, click Ok, it should begin reinstalling Internet Explorer.

(NOTE: It has been reported, courtesy of Steve Wechsler, that if you're on
Windows XP Pro SP2, it may prompt you for some files that it cannot find in
the WINDOWS\ServicePackFiles\i386 folder, which you'll then need to browse
to. It's thought that this may apply to XP Home also. The specific files
are iexplore.exe which actually IS in the i386 folder, mswrd632.wpc
, which is located in the Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft
Shared\TextConv folder, AND, INSTALL.IN_ , which will be located on
a slipstreamed XP Pro CD in the i386 folder and also located in the i386
folder on an XP Pro SP1 disk. So, copying the 2 files above to the
WINDOWS\ServicePackFiles\i386 folder should allow you to be able to
repair/reinstall IE on an SP2 system by right clicking ie.inf in the
WINDOWS\inf folder and selecting Install or using the rundll32.exe line
given above.)


5. Lastly, here is a link to a MSKB article about re-installing IE6/OE6:

How to Reinstall or Repair Internet Explorer and Outlook Express in Windows
XP (Q318378)
http://support.microsoft.com/?id=kb;en-us;Q318378

--
Regards, Jim Byrd, MS-MVP/DTS/AH-VSOP
My Blog, Defending Your Machine, here:
http://DefendingYourMachine.blogspot.com/



|| ||| Yeah, I agree Bear - looking at the rest of the thread something's
clearly
||| out of kilter beyond a normal .reg reset. I wonder if a Tools|Internet
||| Options|Programs| "Reset Web Settings" or a Repair IE:
||
|| The one thing that gets me is that is it not limited to one type of OS,
it
|| seems to be affecting them all across the board, and yet, not all Users.
And
|| it comes and goes. So....how the heck do you nail it down? It does seem
to
|| be Internet generated, but, why not all Users?
||
|||
||| "3. Another alternative for just IE6 repair if you don't have IE6
listed
||| in
||| Add-Remove Programs, then in Start|Run then enter
|||
||| "rundll32 setupwbv.dll,IE6Maintenance"
|||
||| without the quotes, exactly as shown (it's case sensitive), and select
the
||| appropriate entry. More detailed info is available here: Description
of
||| the Internet Explorer Repair Tool
||| http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;q194177 (You
may
||| have to re-install Sun Java JRE if you had it installed afterwards,
BTW.)"
|||
|||
||| would work, or has this already been tried somewhere along the way?
||
|| IIRC, somewhere along the way in one of the threads here or the AumHa
forum,
|| I or someone else did recommend doing a repair, and AIRC it did not
resolve
|| the problem. I am really pretty sure at this point, given that I am
|| experiencing the same situation as the OPs that is it not a problem with
the
|| PC's, program or update. We are not all using the same OS, firewall, AV
or
|| other such programs, the only link is IE. However, there too, is a
|| difference, as some only have IE6 SP1, and some of us have IE SP2. ????
||
|| Jan
|| MS MVP - Windows IE/OE [DTS/AumHa
|||
|||
||| --
||| Regards, Jim Byrd, MS-MVP/DTS/AH-VSOP
||| My Blog, Defending Your Machine, here:
||| http://DefendingYourMachine.blogspot.com/
|||
|||
|||
||| ||||| It didn't do what "Anna" wanted it to do when she tried it from my
post in her
||||| thread at Aumha Forums, Jim. I think "something" definitely has
changed. --
||||| ~PA Bear
|||||
||||| Jim Byrd wrote:
|||||| Hi Jan - Did you try my .reg file on this?
||||||
||||||
|||||| Download and run:
|||||| http://www.kellys-korner-xp.com/regs_edits/RestoreSearch2.REG to
restore
|||||| your default Search functionality and reset your prefixes. You'll
||| have
||| to
|||||| manually re-select any Search Customizations you may have had,
however.
||||||
||||||
|||||| ||||||| As of this time, the Search has changed back to it was earlier this
||||||| morning. None of the Customize settings will work, and everything
just
||||||| hangs up again.
|||||||
||||||| Hope this helps.
|||||||
||||||| Jan
||||||| MS MVP - Windows IE/OE [DTS/AumHa]
||||||| Smiles are meant to be shared,
||||||| that's why they're so contagious.
|||||||
||||||| Replies are posted only to the newsgroup for the benefit or other
readers.
||||||| How to make a good newsgroup post:
||||||| http://www.dts-l.org/goodpost.htm
|||||||
|||||||
||||||| |||||||| They just now changed here, or at least within the last hour. I
see the
|||||||| same search list I did a few days ago when I first checked it due
to
|||||||| Anna's post. It then changed the Customize to only two selections,
Search
|||||||| Assistant and Use one search service. No list boxes, and when I
||| tried
||| to
|||||||| select one of the choices, they would not work. When I clicked OK,
it
|||||||| just brought the search list up again, and all that was in it was
the
|||||||| search window and the GO button.
||||||||
|||||||| Now, I see the same Search window in the panel, but, the Customize
||| is
||| as
|||||||| it was before.
||||||||
|||||||| Hope this helps.
||||||||
|||||||| Jan
|||||||| MS MVP - Windows IE/OE [DTS/AumHa]
|||||||| Smiles are meant to be shared,
|||||||| that's why they're so contagious.
||||||||
||||||||
|||||||| ||||||||| Check again today and see if things have changed at all. They
have here.
||||||||| Why? I have no idea.
||||||||| --
||||||||| ~Robear Dyer (PA Bear)
||||||||| MS MVP-Windows (IE/OE, Security, Shell/User)
|||||||||
||||||||| PA Bear wrote:
|||||||||| See these recent threads: http://snipurl.com/f05w
||||||||||
|||||||||| Yes, Search Assistant has changed. No, we don't know how or why.
(This
|||||||||| may
|||||||||| have something to do with it:
|||||||||| http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/business/260821_msftads25.html.)
No,
|||||||||| there
|||||||||| doesn't seem to be a way of getting the old Search Assistant
back.
||||||||||
|||||||||| Steve Horrillo wrote:
||||||||||| I notice the Search Assistant isn't working right anymore.
"Next" is
||||||||||| now
||||||||||| greyed out and will only let me use one chosen search engine.
||| This
||| has
||||||||||| happened on my XP as well as my Win 2000 machine. What's wrong?

 

[Anna]

Many of those steps I have already taken and they did not fix the search
problem.
As I said in a previous post. Because of an issue with Norton Goback. I
had to wipe my hard drive and reinstall everything from the system restore
cd's that were made when my system was new (Oct). I still have the problem.
My system came with winxp pro with sp2. My old system has winxp home that I
updated some time ago to sp2. The problem is there also. The search
problem started about the same time on both computers. This new computer is
as clean as it can be. I don't think it has anything to do with Internet
Explorer needing repaired.
Anna

Hi Jan - Well, the single common element you describe is core IE exclusive
of SP1 or 2. Here's my full "fix IE" post - maybe something in it will
suggest something:


There is no direct Repair function for IE6 in XP. Here are some
alternatives:

First try this courtesy of MVP Ramesh Srinivasan:
http://windowsxp.mvps.org/IEFIX.htm

Then try each of the following:

1. If you're on XP SP2, try the following suggestions from KB 870700,
here:
How to troubleshoot problems accessing secure Web pages with Internet
Explorer 6 Service Pack 2, http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=870700#9
first. Don't worry that your problem isn't specifically secure-page
related - these extracted below are general fix steps for the most part.
Check to see if your problem remains after each:

a. Turn off the pop-up blocker
Internet Explorer SP2 includes the ability to block pop-up windows. This
new
feature may block some Web pages. To turn off the Pop-Up Blocker, follow
these steps:

1) On the Tools menu in Internet Explorer, click Internet Options, and
then
click the General tab.
2) Click the Privacy tab.
3) In the Pop-Up Blocker section, click to clear the Block pop-ups check
box.
4) Click Apply.
5) Click OK.

b. Delete the contents of the Temporary Internet Files folder
If a copy of the Web page is in the Temporary Internet Files folder, the
page may not display as expected. To resolve this problem, you must delete
the contents of this folder. To do this, follow these steps:

1) On the Tools menu in Internet Explorer, click Internet Options, and
then
click the General tab.
2) Click Delete Cookies, and then click OK.
3) Click Delete Files, and then click OK.
4) Click Clear History, and then click Yes.
5) Click OK.

c. Third-party browser extensions
Some third-party browser extensions and add-ons may interfere with how
Internet Explorer views certain Web pages. To turn off these extensions,
follow these steps:

1) Click Start, right-click Internet Explorer, and then click Internet
Properties.
2) Click the Advanced tab.
3) Click to clear the Enable third-party browser extensions (requires
restart) check box.
4) Click Apply.
5) Click Ok.
6) Start Internet Explorer, and then try to reproduce the issue.

d. Reset the Security Zones to the default settings:

1) On the Tools menu in Internet Explorer, click Internet Options, and
then
click the Security tab.
2) Click Internet, and then click Default Level.
3) Click Local Intranet, and then click Default Level.
4) Click Trusted sites, and then click Default Level.
5) Click Restricted sites, and then click Default Level.
6) Click Apply.
7) On the Privacy tab, click Default, and then click Apply.

2. Then you need to go (as an Administrator) to Start|Run and type "sfc
/scannow" (without the quotes and notice the space between the c and the
/.)
Have your XP CD handy and be prepared to go get a cup of coffee - it takes
a
while. This will do the same thing as Repair IE6 for XP but a lot more,
that is find any corrupt system files and replace them. It does NOT,
however, re-register the various software components, and you will need to
do this manually using regsvr32.exe if any are shown as replaced in
Event Viewer|System.

Be aware that under certain circumstances (Win2k before SP4 - see mskb
814510, http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;Q814510)
sfc
can erroneously overwrite (restore over) previously installed files from
certain "hotfixes" which will then need to be re-installed. This may also
apply to XP. To check for this, after running sfc, open a Cmd window and
enter "qfecheck /v /l:c:\" (without the quotes). If you don't have
qfecheck
installed, it can be obtained for XP here:
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/release.asp?ReleaseID=35468 and for
Win2k
here: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/release.asp?ReleaseID=35470 A
version stated to be common to both is available here:
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/...FamilyID=155C7C58-102E-47B0-A12A-BFAB8CFCCC03
Further information about qfecheck is
available here: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/282784/EN/



3. Another alternative for just IE6 repair if you don't have IE6 listed
in
Add-Remove Programs, then in Start|Run then enter

"rundll32 setupwbv.dll,IE6Maintenance"

without the quotes, exactly as shown (it's case sensitive), and select the
appropriate entry. More detailed info is available here: Description of
the Internet Explorer Repair Tool
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;q194177 (You may
have to re-install Sun Java JRE if you had it installed afterwards, BTW.)



4. If you find that you need to do a re-install of IE6 then you can
consider the following:

1) Insert the Windows installation CD in your CD-ROM drive.
2) Click Start, and click Run.
3) Copy the command prompt below in the Open box (exactly as shown - it's
case sensitive), and click OK. (Assumes %System% is installed in Windows
on
your C:\ partition. Change as appropriate for your particular situation.)

rundll32.exe setupapi,InstallHinfSection DefaultInstall 132
c:\windows\inf\ie.inf

4) It will display a "File Needed" screen, click "Browse.." and browse to
<CD-ROM drive>\i386, (where <CD-ROM drive> is the drive letter of the
CD-ROM, For example, D.

5) Click Open, click Ok, it should begin reinstalling Internet Explorer.

(NOTE: It has been reported, courtesy of Steve Wechsler, that if you're
on
Windows XP Pro SP2, it may prompt you for some files that it cannot find
in
the WINDOWS\ServicePackFiles\i386 folder, which you'll then need to
browse
to. It's thought that this may apply to XP Home also. The specific files
are iexplore.exe which actually IS in the i386 folder,
mswrd632.wpc
, which is located in the Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft
Shared\TextConv folder, AND, INSTALL.IN_ , which will be located
on
a slipstreamed XP Pro CD in the i386 folder and also located in the i386
folder on an XP Pro SP1 disk. So, copying the 2 files above to the
WINDOWS\ServicePackFiles\i386 folder should allow you to be able to
repair/reinstall IE on an SP2 system by right clicking ie.inf in the
WINDOWS\inf folder and selecting Install or using the rundll32.exe line
given above.)


5. Lastly, here is a link to a MSKB article about re-installing IE6/OE6:

How to Reinstall or Repair Internet Explorer and Outlook Express in
Windows
XP (Q318378)
http://support.microsoft.com/?id=kb;en-us;Q318378

--
Regards, Jim Byrd, MS-MVP/DTS/AH-VSOP
My Blog, Defending Your Machine, here:
http://DefendingYourMachine.blogspot.com/



|| ||| Yeah, I agree Bear - looking at the rest of the thread something's
clearly
||| out of kilter beyond a normal .reg reset. I wonder if a
Tools|Internet
||| Options|Programs| "Reset Web Settings" or a Repair IE:
||
|| The one thing that gets me is that is it not limited to one type of OS,
it
|| seems to be affecting them all across the board, and yet, not all
Users.
And
|| it comes and goes. So....how the heck do you nail it down? It does
seem
to
|| be Internet generated, but, why not all Users?
||
|||
||| "3. Another alternative for just IE6 repair if you don't have IE6
listed
||| in
||| Add-Remove Programs, then in Start|Run then enter
|||
||| "rundll32 setupwbv.dll,IE6Maintenance"
|||
||| without the quotes, exactly as shown (it's case sensitive), and select
the
||| appropriate entry. More detailed info is available here: Description
of
||| the Internet Explorer Repair Tool
||| http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;q194177 (You
may
||| have to re-install Sun Java JRE if you had it installed afterwards,
BTW.)"
|||
|||
||| would work, or has this already been tried somewhere along the way?
||
|| IIRC, somewhere along the way in one of the threads here or the AumHa
forum,
|| I or someone else did recommend doing a repair, and AIRC it did not
resolve
|| the problem. I am really pretty sure at this point, given that I am
|| experiencing the same situation as the OPs that is it not a problem
with
the
|| PC's, program or update. We are not all using the same OS, firewall, AV
or
|| other such programs, the only link is IE. However, there too, is a
|| difference, as some only have IE6 SP1, and some of us have IE SP2.
????
||
|| Jan
|| MS MVP - Windows IE/OE [DTS/AumHa
|||
|||
||| --
||| Regards, Jim Byrd, MS-MVP/DTS/AH-VSOP
||| My Blog, Defending Your Machine, here:
||| http://DefendingYourMachine.blogspot.com/
|||
|||
|||
||| ||||| It didn't do what "Anna" wanted it to do when she tried it from my
post in her
||||| thread at Aumha Forums, Jim. I think "something" definitely has
changed. --
||||| ~PA Bear
|||||
||||| Jim Byrd wrote:
|||||| Hi Jan - Did you try my .reg file on this?
||||||
||||||
|||||| Download and run:
|||||| http://www.kellys-korner-xp.com/regs_edits/RestoreSearch2.REG to
restore
|||||| your default Search functionality and reset your prefixes. You'll
||| have
||| to
|||||| manually re-select any Search Customizations you may have had,
however.
||||||
||||||
|||||| ||||||| As of this time, the Search has changed back to it was earlier
this
||||||| morning. None of the Customize settings will work, and everything
just
||||||| hangs up again.
|||||||
||||||| Hope this helps.
|||||||
||||||| Jan
||||||| MS MVP - Windows IE/OE [DTS/AumHa]
||||||| Smiles are meant to be shared,
||||||| that's why they're so contagious.
|||||||
||||||| Replies are posted only to the newsgroup for the benefit or other
readers.
||||||| How to make a good newsgroup post:
||||||| http://www.dts-l.org/goodpost.htm
|||||||
|||||||
||||||| |||||||| They just now changed here, or at least within the last hour. I
see the
|||||||| same search list I did a few days ago when I first checked it due
to
|||||||| Anna's post. It then changed the Customize to only two
selections,
Search
|||||||| Assistant and Use one search service. No list boxes, and when I
||| tried
||| to
|||||||| select one of the choices, they would not work. When I clicked
OK,
it
|||||||| just brought the search list up again, and all that was in it was
the
|||||||| search window and the GO button.
||||||||
|||||||| Now, I see the same Search window in the panel, but, the
Customize
||| is
||| as
|||||||| it was before.
||||||||
|||||||| Hope this helps.
||||||||
|||||||| Jan
|||||||| MS MVP - Windows IE/OE [DTS/AumHa]
|||||||| Smiles are meant to be shared,
|||||||| that's why they're so contagious.
||||||||
||||||||
|||||||| ||||||||| Check again today and see if things have changed at all. They
have here.
||||||||| Why? I have no idea.
||||||||| --
||||||||| ~Robear Dyer (PA Bear)
||||||||| MS MVP-Windows (IE/OE, Security, Shell/User)
|||||||||
||||||||| PA Bear wrote:
|||||||||| See these recent threads: http://snipurl.com/f05w
||||||||||
|||||||||| Yes, Search Assistant has changed. No, we don't know how or
why.
(This
|||||||||| may
|||||||||| have something to do with it:
|||||||||| http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/business/260821_msftads25.html.)
No,
|||||||||| there
|||||||||| doesn't seem to be a way of getting the old Search Assistant
back.
||||||||||
|||||||||| Steve Horrillo wrote:
||||||||||| I notice the Search Assistant isn't working right anymore.
"Next" is
||||||||||| now
||||||||||| greyed out and will only let me use one chosen search engine.
||| This
||| has
||||||||||| happened on my XP as well as my Win 2000 machine. What's
wrong?

 

[Jan Il]

Hi Jim

Hi Jan - Well, the single common element you describe is core IE exclusive
of SP1 or 2. Here's my full "fix IE" post - maybe something in it will
suggest something:

I'll step through the following as you instruct and post back the results
here.

Jan
MS MVP - Windows IE/OE [DTS/AumHa]

There is no direct Repair function for IE6 in XP. Here are some
alternatives:

First try this courtesy of MVP Ramesh Srinivasan:
http://windowsxp.mvps.org/IEFIX.htm

Then try each of the following:

1. If you're on XP SP2, try the following suggestions from KB 870700,
here:
How to troubleshoot problems accessing secure Web pages with Internet
Explorer 6 Service Pack 2, http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=870700#9
first. Don't worry that your problem isn't specifically secure-page
related - these extracted below are general fix steps for the most part.
Check to see if your problem remains after each:

a. Turn off the pop-up blocker
Internet Explorer SP2 includes the ability to block pop-up windows. This
new
feature may block some Web pages. To turn off the Pop-Up Blocker, follow
these steps:

1) On the Tools menu in Internet Explorer, click Internet Options, and
then
click the General tab.
2) Click the Privacy tab.
3) In the Pop-Up Blocker section, click to clear the Block pop-ups check
box.
4) Click Apply.
5) Click OK.

b. Delete the contents of the Temporary Internet Files folder
If a copy of the Web page is in the Temporary Internet Files folder, the
page may not display as expected. To resolve this problem, you must delete
the contents of this folder. To do this, follow these steps:

1) On the Tools menu in Internet Explorer, click Internet Options, and
then
click the General tab.
2) Click Delete Cookies, and then click OK.
3) Click Delete Files, and then click OK.
4) Click Clear History, and then click Yes.
5) Click OK.

c. Third-party browser extensions
Some third-party browser extensions and add-ons may interfere with how
Internet Explorer views certain Web pages. To turn off these extensions,
follow these steps:

1) Click Start, right-click Internet Explorer, and then click Internet
Properties.
2) Click the Advanced tab.
3) Click to clear the Enable third-party browser extensions (requires
restart) check box.
4) Click Apply.
5) Click Ok.
6) Start Internet Explorer, and then try to reproduce the issue.

d. Reset the Security Zones to the default settings:

1) On the Tools menu in Internet Explorer, click Internet Options, and
then
click the Security tab.
2) Click Internet, and then click Default Level.
3) Click Local Intranet, and then click Default Level.
4) Click Trusted sites, and then click Default Level.
5) Click Restricted sites, and then click Default Level.
6) Click Apply.
7) On the Privacy tab, click Default, and then click Apply.

2. Then you need to go (as an Administrator) to Start|Run and type "sfc
/scannow" (without the quotes and notice the space between the c and the
/.)
Have your XP CD handy and be prepared to go get a cup of coffee - it takes
a
while. This will do the same thing as Repair IE6 for XP but a lot more,
that is find any corrupt system files and replace them. It does NOT,
however, re-register the various software components, and you will need to
do this manually using regsvr32.exe if any are shown as replaced in
Event Viewer|System.

Be aware that under certain circumstances (Win2k before SP4 - see mskb
814510, http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;Q814510)
sfc
can erroneously overwrite (restore over) previously installed files from
certain "hotfixes" which will then need to be re-installed. This may also
apply to XP. To check for this, after running sfc, open a Cmd window and
enter "qfecheck /v /l:c:\" (without the quotes). If you don't have
qfecheck
installed, it can be obtained for XP here:
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/release.asp?ReleaseID=35468 and for
Win2k
here: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/release.asp?ReleaseID=35470 A
version stated to be common to both is available here:
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/...FamilyID=155C7C58-102E-47B0-A12A-BFAB8CFCCC03
Further information about qfecheck is
available here: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/282784/EN/



3. Another alternative for just IE6 repair if you don't have IE6 listed
in
Add-Remove Programs, then in Start|Run then enter

"rundll32 setupwbv.dll,IE6Maintenance"

without the quotes, exactly as shown (it's case sensitive), and select the
appropriate entry. More detailed info is available here: Description of
the Internet Explorer Repair Tool
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;q194177 (You may
have to re-install Sun Java JRE if you had it installed afterwards, BTW.)



4. If you find that you need to do a re-install of IE6 then you can
consider the following:

1) Insert the Windows installation CD in your CD-ROM drive.
2) Click Start, and click Run.
3) Copy the command prompt below in the Open box (exactly as shown - it's
case sensitive), and click OK. (Assumes %System% is installed in Windows
on
your C:\ partition. Change as appropriate for your particular situation.)

rundll32.exe setupapi,InstallHinfSection DefaultInstall 132
c:\windows\inf\ie.inf

4) It will display a "File Needed" screen, click "Browse.." and browse to
<CD-ROM drive>\i386, (where <CD-ROM drive> is the drive letter of the
CD-ROM, For example, D.

5) Click Open, click Ok, it should begin reinstalling Internet Explorer.

(NOTE: It has been reported, courtesy of Steve Wechsler, that if you're
on
Windows XP Pro SP2, it may prompt you for some files that it cannot find
in
the WINDOWS\ServicePackFiles\i386 folder, which you'll then need to
browse
to. It's thought that this may apply to XP Home also. The specific files
are iexplore.exe which actually IS in the i386 folder,
mswrd632.wpc
, which is located in the Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft
Shared\TextConv folder, AND, INSTALL.IN_ , which will be located
on
a slipstreamed XP Pro CD in the i386 folder and also located in the i386
folder on an XP Pro SP1 disk. So, copying the 2 files above to the
WINDOWS\ServicePackFiles\i386 folder should allow you to be able to
repair/reinstall IE on an SP2 system by right clicking ie.inf in the
WINDOWS\inf folder and selecting Install or using the rundll32.exe line
given above.)


5. Lastly, here is a link to a MSKB article about re-installing IE6/OE6:

How to Reinstall or Repair Internet Explorer and Outlook Express in
Windows
XP (Q318378)
http://support.microsoft.com/?id=kb;en-us;Q318378

--
Regards, Jim Byrd, MS-MVP/DTS/AH-VSOP
My Blog, Defending Your Machine, here:
http://DefendingYourMachine.blogspot.com/



|| ||| Yeah, I agree Bear - looking at the rest of the thread something's
clearly
||| out of kilter beyond a normal .reg reset. I wonder if a
Tools|Internet
||| Options|Programs| "Reset Web Settings" or a Repair IE:
||
|| The one thing that gets me is that is it not limited to one type of OS,
it
|| seems to be affecting them all across the board, and yet, not all
Users.
And
|| it comes and goes. So....how the heck do you nail it down? It does
seem
to
|| be Internet generated, but, why not all Users?
||
|||
||| "3. Another alternative for just IE6 repair if you don't have IE6
listed
||| in
||| Add-Remove Programs, then in Start|Run then enter
|||
||| "rundll32 setupwbv.dll,IE6Maintenance"
|||
||| without the quotes, exactly as shown (it's case sensitive), and select
the
||| appropriate entry. More detailed info is available here: Description
of
||| the Internet Explorer Repair Tool
||| http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;q194177 (You
may
||| have to re-install Sun Java JRE if you had it installed afterwards,
BTW.)"
|||
|||
||| would work, or has this already been tried somewhere along the way?
||
|| IIRC, somewhere along the way in one of the threads here or the AumHa
forum,
|| I or someone else did recommend doing a repair, and AIRC it did not
resolve
|| the problem. I am really pretty sure at this point, given that I am
|| experiencing the same situation as the OPs that is it not a problem
with
the
|| PC's, program or update. We are not all using the same OS, firewall, AV
or
|| other such programs, the only link is IE. However, there too, is a
|| difference, as some only have IE6 SP1, and some of us have IE SP2.
????
||
|| Jan
|| MS MVP - Windows IE/OE [DTS/AumHa
|||
|||
||| --
||| Regards, Jim Byrd, MS-MVP/DTS/AH-VSOP
||| My Blog, Defending Your Machine, here:
||| http://DefendingYourMachine.blogspot.com/
|||
|||
|||
||| ||||| It didn't do what "Anna" wanted it to do when she tried it from my
post in her
||||| thread at Aumha Forums, Jim. I think "something" definitely has
changed. --
||||| ~PA Bear
|||||
||||| Jim Byrd wrote:
|||||| Hi Jan - Did you try my .reg file on this?
||||||
||||||
|||||| Download and run:
|||||| http://www.kellys-korner-xp.com/regs_edits/RestoreSearch2.REG to
restore
|||||| your default Search functionality and reset your prefixes. You'll
||| have
||| to
|||||| manually re-select any Search Customizations you may have had,
however.
||||||
||||||
|||||| ||||||| As of this time, the Search has changed back to it was earlier
this
||||||| morning. None of the Customize settings will work, and everything
just
||||||| hangs up again.
|||||||
||||||| Hope this helps.
|||||||
||||||| Jan
||||||| MS MVP - Windows IE/OE [DTS/AumHa]
||||||| Smiles are meant to be shared,
||||||| that's why they're so contagious.
|||||||
||||||| Replies are posted only to the newsgroup for the benefit or other
readers.
||||||| How to make a good newsgroup post:
||||||| http://www.dts-l.org/goodpost.htm
|||||||
|||||||
||||||| |||||||| They just now changed here, or at least within the last hour. I
see the
|||||||| same search list I did a few days ago when I first checked it due
to
|||||||| Anna's post. It then changed the Customize to only two
selections,
Search
|||||||| Assistant and Use one search service. No list boxes, and when I
||| tried
||| to
|||||||| select one of the choices, they would not work. When I clicked
OK,
it
|||||||| just brought the search list up again, and all that was in it was
the
|||||||| search window and the GO button.
||||||||
|||||||| Now, I see the same Search window in the panel, but, the
Customize
||| is
||| as
|||||||| it was before.
||||||||
|||||||| Hope this helps.
||||||||
|||||||| Jan
|||||||| MS MVP - Windows IE/OE [DTS/AumHa]
|||||||| Smiles are meant to be shared,
|||||||| that's why they're so contagious.
||||||||
||||||||
|||||||| ||||||||| Check again today and see if things have changed at all. They
have here.
||||||||| Why? I have no idea.
||||||||| --
||||||||| ~Robear Dyer (PA Bear)
||||||||| MS MVP-Windows (IE/OE, Security, Shell/User)
|||||||||
||||||||| PA Bear wrote:
|||||||||| See these recent threads: http://snipurl.com/f05w
||||||||||
|||||||||| Yes, Search Assistant has changed. No, we don't know how or
why.
(This
|||||||||| may
|||||||||| have something to do with it:
|||||||||| http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/business/260821_msftads25.html.)
No,
|||||||||| there
|||||||||| doesn't seem to be a way of getting the old Search Assistant
back.
||||||||||
|||||||||| Steve Horrillo wrote:
||||||||||| I notice the Search Assistant isn't working right anymore.
"Next" is
||||||||||| now
||||||||||| greyed out and will only let me use one chosen search engine.
||| This
||| has
||||||||||| happened on my XP as well as my Win 2000 machine. What's
wrong?

 

[Robert Aldwinckle]

Huh! At least you get the dog. I get only a gaping window... ;o))

Jan,

Do you understand the "stupid dog" implies that the poster has
XP's Search Companion in effect?

You probably have Search Assistant in effect. (The subject of this thread.)

If you want to switch back use that srchcust URL I gave so you open
the Customize "dialog" in its own window. Or use Jim's .reg file.

For your convenience here it is again:

http://ie.search.msn.com/en-us/srchasst/srchcust.htm

As I indicated you have to use the URL (not the popup window)
or you won't be able to use right-click, Refresh.

BTW Search Companion does not require an internet connection
to be seen whereas both Search Assistant and its Customize "dialog" do.

Also, for IE7b2p lurkers, you won't see this in an IE window
but it does still apply to Explorer windows, if that is where you are
seeing Search Assistant.

Besides....I feel the choice of a dog is biased.
I prefer cats, and would like to have a choice of a kitty instead of that dog
that likes to draw endless paw-circles! <g>

The only one of the choices that I can stand (barely) is the wizard. <w>


Robert
---

 

[Robert Aldwinckle]

Hi Robert



I have tried that, one of the first things I did try. What happens is that,
the moment that the Customize window opens, the screen as you show below
opens and the Loading is already displayed and looks as if it is trying to
load, but, it is actaully doing nothing. When I click on one of the radio
buttoms to select one of the two choices, and then click OK, it immediately
kicks me out of the Customize window and I am back to the Search window and
GO button.

It sure sounds as if you are talking about the popup window
with that URL rather than a separately launched window with it.
Please confirm.

It will not do anything here. And the Search window I am getting now does
not look at all like the regular Search Window. It says MSN and a butterfly
over the word Search above the window with a big green GO button at the end
of the window. It does not look like the search window I have seen in that
panel before.

My guess then would be that you have selected MSN for your
Use one search service. If you don't see the Customize button
any more try using the Search bar on an XP Explorer window
(instead of an IE window.) I'm finding it much easier to make
any transitions I want using a Search bar on an Explorer window
than using the URLs that I mentioned earlier (though I was able
to use those after using the right-click, Refresh command that
I suggested.)


Robert
---

 

[Jan Il]

Hi Robert

It sure sounds as if you are talking about the popup window
with that URL rather than a separately launched window with it.
Please confirm.

Well...I'm not sure which, but, it is the same as you show in the
screenshot, it looks identical to that window that the Customize button
opens, the same that it opens when it is working properly.

My guess then would be that you have selected MSN for your
Use one search service. If you don't see the Customize button
any more try using the Search bar on an XP Explorer window
(instead of an IE window.) I'm finding it much easier to make
any transitions I want using a Search bar on an Explorer window
than using the URLs that I mentioned earlier (though I was able
to use those after using the right-click, Refresh command that
I suggested.)

Yes...I had in the beginning selected MSN some time ago, but, I don't use
the Search for IE but once in a blue moon as I have used Copernic for
several years now for a better selection of results. I have no way of
making any search engine changes from the Search on the Start Menu or the
Windows Explorer, from either my User or Admin accounts. Although, it
should not make any difference I wanted to double check if perhaps it had
something to do with user rights. Nothing there, though.

I have not yet gone through the steps Jim outlined here for me to try, but,
I am about to start and see what happens. However, based upon my current
research and findings at this point, I am seeing it less a problem source on
the machine or Windows itself.

Jan

 

[Jan Il]

Jan,

Do you understand the "stupid dog" implies that the poster has
XP's Search Companion in effect?

You probably have Search Assistant in effect. (The subject of this
thread.)

If you want to switch back use that srchcust URL I gave so you open
the Customize "dialog" in its own window. Or use Jim's .reg file.

For your convenience here it is again:

http://ie.search.msn.com/en-us/srchasst/srchcust.htm

I have used Jim's .reg file, and the URL you provided before, both to no
avail. Ok...when I click on the link you have here, IE opens with the
Search Customize window open, it looks like the one that you did the
screenshot of earlier here, nothing has changed.

As I indicated you have to use the URL (not the popup window)
or you won't be able to use right-click, Refresh.

I'm not sure which URL you are referring to, other than the link here. I
have done a right-click Refresh on the window, clicked the Use Search
Assistant, Refresh button on the toolbar, right the screen, Refresh, every
combination and everything I can find to right-click and Refresh on or with,
and all that happens is that the tick in the Use Search Assistant
disappears. Nothing else happens. Absolutely nothing.

BTW Search Companion does not require an internet connection
to be seen whereas both Search Assistant and its Customize "dialog"
do.

When I open my Search on my XP machine, the one I am working on now, I see
Search Companion at the top of the search box. I've now been able to
reinstate "the stupid dog" <g> However, this is the first time that I have
seen that option again. Now...here is something new. When I click the
"Search the Internet" link on the Windows Search Assistant dialog face, it
opens IE with the Search pane open and with the regular Search window and
buttons, not the one with the MSN and butterfly as it does when I open it
from IE. On the box is says " Brought to you by MSN search," However, if I
click the Customize button, the windows it opens looks the same as the
screenshot, and the Next button is still grayed out. The only difference
here is the looks of the Search dialog in the Search pane.

Jan

 

[Anna]

I posted the stupid dog comment. I was able to change that. But am back to
the same problems with the IE search pane.
Anna

 

[Jan Il]

Hi all,

I am over in the Admin account and prepared to run the information Jim Byrd
gave me, when I decided to check the status of the Search in this account.
At 1:22p when I clicked on the Search on the toolbar, it opened the side
panel and the regular search dialog window appeared. When I clicked on the
Customize button, the normal search engine selection list and 2 list boxes
were there. I clicked on each of the radio buttons for each of the three
choices, Search Assistant, Use one search and Search Companion. Each one
opened the related list box(es) as it should. The Next button is still
grayed out. However, none of the selections I make hold. When I close the
Customize window and then IE and then open and check again, all 3 radio
buttons are enpty, and nothing has changed. When I logged on to the User
account again and checked the Search there, thinking that this might be one
of the rare times the Search is working again, there is no change at all,
still just the 2 selections and Loading......

Also.....I have just checked my W2k machine on which the Search function was
working fine, is now presenting the same 2 selection list and
Loading......as my XP, in both User and Admin accounts

To complete the rounds of all my machines, I have also logged on to my
laptop and checked there as well. It works fine in the Admin account on the
laptop, but, not now in the User account. Notice that I say "not now". This
is the first time that I have used my laptop, fully patched and updated, in
over two weeks, thus, all settings were prior to the immediate problem area
of last week or so, at least to my knowledge. So, when I logged on to the
Admin account, the Search setting was set for Search Companion, all was
working there. In logging in to the User account, the Search window
presented the regular search windows, but, no Customize button. In testing
the various settings, which did appear at first, except for the grayed out
Next button and missing Customize button, I switched the setting to Search
Assistant. Now, I get the same 2 choices, Loading.......and cannot change
it back, or to anything else.

This just to let you know that this is something different on my end as of
this hour before I begin the research tasks that Jim has asked me to try.

Jan

Yeah, I agree Bear - looking at the rest of the thread something's
clearly
out of kilter beyond a normal .reg reset. I wonder if a Tools|Internet
Options|Programs| "Reset Web Settings" or a Repair IE:

The one thing that gets me is that is it not limited to one type of OS, it
seems to be affecting them all across the board, and yet, not all Users.
And it comes and goes. So....how the heck do you nail it down? It does
seem to be Internet generated, but, why not all Users?

"3. Another alternative for just IE6 repair if you don't have IE6 listed
in
Add-Remove Programs, then in Start|Run then enter

"rundll32 setupwbv.dll,IE6Maintenance"

without the quotes, exactly as shown (it's case sensitive), and select
the
appropriate entry. More detailed info is available here: Description of
the Internet Explorer Repair Tool
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;q194177 (You
may
have to re-install Sun Java JRE if you had it installed afterwards,
BTW.)"


would work, or has this already been tried somewhere along the way?

IIRC, somewhere along the way in one of the threads here or the AumHa
forum, I or someone else did recommend doing a repair, and AIRC it did not
resolve the problem. I am really pretty sure at this point, given that I
am experiencing the same situation as the OPs that is it not a problem
with the PC's, program or update. We are not all using the same OS,
firewall, AV or other such programs, the only link is IE. However, there
too, is a difference, as some only have IE6 SP1, and some of us have IE
SP2. ????

Jan
MS MVP - Windows IE/OE [DTS/AumHa

--
Regards, Jim Byrd, MS-MVP/DTS/AH-VSOP
My Blog, Defending Your Machine, here:
http://DefendingYourMachine.blogspot.com/



|| It didn't do what "Anna" wanted it to do when she tried it from my
post
in her
|| thread at Aumha Forums, Jim. I think "something" definitely has
changed. --
|| ~PA Bear
||
|| Jim Byrd wrote:
||| Hi Jan - Did you try my .reg file on this?
|||
|||
||| Download and run:
||| http://www.kellys-korner-xp.com/regs_edits/RestoreSearch2.REG to
restore
||| your default Search functionality and reset your prefixes. You'll
have
to
||| manually re-select any Search Customizations you may have had,
however.
|||
|||
||| |||| As of this time, the Search has changed back to it was earlier this
|||| morning. None of the Customize settings will work, and everything
just
|||| hangs up again.
||||
|||| Hope this helps.
||||
|||| Jan
|||| MS MVP - Windows IE/OE [DTS/AumHa]
|||| Smiles are meant to be shared,
|||| that's why they're so contagious.
||||
|||| Replies are posted only to the newsgroup for the benefit or other
readers.
|||| How to make a good newsgroup post:
|||| http://www.dts-l.org/goodpost.htm
||||
||||
|||| ||||| They just now changed here, or at least within the last hour. I
see
the
||||| same search list I did a few days ago when I first checked it due
to
||||| Anna's post. It then changed the Customize to only two selections,
Search
||||| Assistant and Use one search service. No list boxes, and when I
tried
to
||||| select one of the choices, they would not work. When I clicked OK,
it
||||| just brought the search list up again, and all that was in it was
the
||||| search window and the GO button.
|||||
||||| Now, I see the same Search window in the panel, but, the Customize
is
as
||||| it was before.
|||||
||||| Hope this helps.
|||||
||||| Jan
||||| MS MVP - Windows IE/OE [DTS/AumHa]
||||| Smiles are meant to be shared,
||||| that's why they're so contagious.
|||||
|||||
||||| |||||| Check again today and see if things have changed at all. They
have
here.
|||||| Why? I have no idea.
|||||| --
|||||| ~Robear Dyer (PA Bear)
|||||| MS MVP-Windows (IE/OE, Security, Shell/User)
||||||
|||||| PA Bear wrote:
||||||| See these recent threads: http://snipurl.com/f05w
|||||||
||||||| Yes, Search Assistant has changed. No, we don't know how or why.
(This
||||||| may
||||||| have something to do with it:
||||||| http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/business/260821_msftads25.html.)
No,
||||||| there
||||||| doesn't seem to be a way of getting the old Search Assistant
back.
|||||||
||||||| Steve Horrillo wrote:
|||||||| I notice the Search Assistant isn't working right anymore.
"Next"
is
|||||||| now
|||||||| greyed out and will only let me use one chosen search engine.
This
has
|||||||| happened on my XP as well as my Win 2000 machine. What's wrong?