Search Engine not Responding

[Guest]

I had to uninstall Internet Explorer 7.0 Beta 3 and go back to Internet
Explorer 6.0 SP1, as some of the HP printer software is incompatible with it.
Since then everytime I try to search for a file on the hard drive, there's no
action whatsoever and the "not responding" shoes up on title bar of the
window.
Any help with this issue would be appreciated.

 

[Will Denny]

Hi

Please try the following link to Kelly's web site:

"Why doesn't Search work?"
http://www.kellys-korner-xp.com/top10faqs.htm

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Will Denny
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[Guest]

Thanks Will for your reply.

I've followed your instructions. The install went without any errors.
Rebooted the machine. Tried searching for a file. Immediately the same
happened. The "not responding" on the title bar of the search window along
with the freeze of the animation. Any other thing I could try? Everything
else is working just fine.
Thanks again

 

[Guest]

Will Denny,

The unistall of Internet Explorer 7.0 Beta 3 wasn't smooth at all. It hang
half way. I cheched microsoft website on this issue from another machine and
it was suggested that I removed any sound schemes. I did so and retrying the
uninstall on the machine in question from the Add/Remove programs on the
control panel, this time apparently the uninstall succeeded. Obviously the
restore of IE 6.0 SP1 was not 100% as this search problem started accuring.
Is there a way of either completing the unistall of IE 7.0 or the install of
IE 6.0 without having to reinstall Windows XP Pro SP2? I have the original
CD, but if possible I would like to avoid that.