Where is Find?

[Karen]

I just upgraded to Windows XP and I'm in Windows Explorer
and I want to search for a file with the "search/find"
feature - Where the heck did it go?

HELP!

 

[george]

You mean, like it went and hid underneath the F3 key on your keyboard??

)

 

[Karen]

You mean like when I hit the F3 key, I get a message "The
operation has been cancelled due to restrictions in
effect on this computer.

Like I just don't know why!

 

[george]

you upgraded from what?
Is there a "Search" option on your startmenu?
If there isn't then (somehow) there seems to be a Group Policy in effect on
your system with the setting "Remove Search menu from Start menu".
If there *is* a Search option (and that works) then tehre is something else
going on, because hitting F3 brings up the exact same dialog.

 

[Karen]

There is no search option on my start menu - We upgraded
from Windows 2000

 

[David Nimon]

Go here:

http://www.kellys-korner-xp.com/xp_tweaks.htm

Go to line 70, left side. Click on the words and download a .vbs script to
your desktop. Click on it to put a fix into your registry. Reboot.

See if it's there now.

 

[george]

Then you are experiencing the effects of Group Policies that were applied
when still windows 2000 and that are still being applied.
And you could very well find other things not being what you expected them
to be.
Now the question is, is this upgraded system still going to be part of the
(evidently) domain environment it was part of before, or is this system
going to be 'stand-alone'?
If it is stand alone then you can try the following (painstaking) exercise.
(Off the top of my hat)
start --> run --> gpedit.msc
Now go and look at all the setting under computer and user, notably the
settings undeneath Administrative Templates.
All setting that are listed as Enabled should be Disabled and all settings
listed as Disabled should be set to Enabled.
(So you're basically reverting everything.)
Once you've done that you should reboot your system and see the results.
For future situations (and to avoid confusion) you could now go through
those settings a second time and set everything to Not configured.

hth
george

 

[Guest]

Hey Karen, you can hit cntrl f and find will pop up.