Search button not working

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I have noticed this issue recently, and hope someone has a solution for it.
On three different computers I set up, using the same Win2K Pro image, the
Search button in Windows Explorer (My Documents, My Computer, etc.) does not
work. You can put your key word(s) in, choose your options, etc., but when
you click the Search button nothing happens. It doesn't hang or give an
error, it just doesn't do anything.

Is there some way this could have gotten corrupted and/or disabled in the
registry? Is there any way to fix it, aside from recreating the image from
scratch?

Any assistance would be greatly appreciated.
 
Do you have Index Server Service starting automatically? Also what browser are you using? This happens on all the
computers you used this image to install?
 
Yeah me too. I guess you could check an entry in the registry to see what's up. Go to:

HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Directory\shell

Start | Run | regedit | OK | navigate to the above.

See if you have a subkey called find. Then check that is is set up right:

Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Directory\shell\find]

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Directory\shell\find\command]
@=hex(2):25,00,53,00,79,00,73,00,74,00,65,00,6d,00,52,00,6f,00,6f,00,74,00,25,\
00,5c,00,45,00,78,00,70,00,6c,00,6f,00,72,00,65,00,72,00,2e,00,65,00,78,00,\
65,00,00,00

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Directory\shell\find\ddeexec]
@="[FindFolder(\"%l\", %I)]"
"NoActivateHandler"=""

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Directory\shell\find\ddeexec\application]
@="Folders"

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Directory\shell\find\ddeexec\topic]
@="AppProperties"

The long hex(2) above is because the Type for that entry is RegExpandSz which will show in regedit as %SystemRoot%\Explorer.exe
 
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