I guess we're out of options here. I appreciate your help and will
No idea, Frank. If this is a permissions problem, you'd get a 0x8000...5
error when attempting to register the DLLs.
--
Regards,
Ramesh Srinivasan, Microsoft MVP [Windows XP Shell/User]
Windows® XP Troubleshooting
http://www.winhelponline.com
Ramesh, please see at the bottom.
Ramesh, MS-MVP wrote:
| Frank,
|
| Does Search work in other user accounts? If the XP Search does not work,
| you can use the classic search (by turning off the Search companion via
the
| registry). Agent Ransack is a good alternative also.
|
||| The second interesting part is that the "Install" command is missing
from
||| the context menu
|
| To reinstate the "Install" command, apply the .INF file association fix
| from here:
|
http://www.dougknox.com/xp/file_assoc.htm
|
|
| | Ramesh, MS-MVP wrote:
|| Hi Frank,
||
|| The Search pane will be blank if the Jscript.dll registration is missing
|| also. Try this command:
||
|| regsvr32 jscript.dll
||
|| Press Enter.
||
||
|| || Bert Kinney wrote:
||| Hi Frank,
|||
||| This was previously posted by Ramesh - Microsoft MVP
||| Try this: Click Start | Run and type:
||| "regsvr32 /i C:\Windows\Srchasst\srchui.dll"
||| "regsvr32 /i URLMON.DLL"
|||
||| If this did not help,
||| 1. Log on to the computer by using an account with administrator
||| permissions.
||| 2. Click Start, click Run, type %systemroot%\inf, and then click OK.
||| 3. Locate the Srchasst.inf file.
||| 4. Right-click the Srchasst.inf file, and then click Install. This
||| reinstalls the files that Search Companion uses.
|||
||| NOTE: If you are prompted for the location of msgr3en.dll and your
||| computer
||| came with Windows XP preinstalled, it is likely to be at
||| C:\Windows\i386.
||| Type C:\Windows\i386 into the Copy Files From dialog and press OK.
||
|| Bert,
|| Thank you for your reply. I missed Ramesh's post, though I searched all
|| available posts on the server for the word "search," and his did not come
|| up.
||
|| This situation is very interesting, first because I've actually gone
|| through all the steps you (and Ramesh) have recommended, twice now, with
|| absolutely no change in the problem
||
|| The second interesting part is that the "Install" command is missing from
|| the context menu that appears when I right-click on the Srchasst.inf
file.
|| While poking around, I found the Install command on the File (between
Open
|| and menu, but every time I attempt to point to it, the menu snaps closed
|| (talk about Tantalus!). The Install command is completely unavailable to
|| me.
||
|| As I said in my previous post, I am using Agent Ransack (which is quirky
|| when you try to select a group of found files), so I am not in too much
|| trouble right now. However, this whole scenario is very mysterious,
|| considering the System File Checker doesn't find anything out of order
|| with Windows files, and no remedy seems to work.
||
|| Just to tidy up loose ends, I have run A-Squared, Spybot S&D, and
|| Ad-Aware, and am using Windows Defender, ZoneAlarm, and AVG, and have
|| gone to a couple of on-line spyware detector sites. Everything indicates
|| that I don't have any malware resident on the PC.
||
|| Anything else that can be done, short of reinstalling Windows? (which I
|| don't plan on doing).
||
|| Thank you.
||
|| Frank D
|
| Ramesh,
|
| I tried the regsvr32 jscript.dll command, and the message said it was
| successful, but the Search window still comes up blank.
|
| With Agent Ransack available, I guess it's more of an annoyance now than
| anything else.
|
| I appreciate your help.
|
| Frank D
Ramesh,
You asked:
| Does Search work in other user accounts?
Answer: No. I created a new user account called "Temporary User" (with Admin
privileges) and let it go through all the automatic setup procedures. I
logged into it, then I clicked on "Search" on the Start menu. The window
that opened was identical to the one in my own account -- blank.
Then you said:
| If the XP Search does not work,
| you can use the classic search (by turning off the Search companion via
the registry).
Answer: I Googled "turn off the Search companion" and found and ran the
Microsoft procedure using Regedit. This had no effect on the Search window.
It was still blank. I even toggled on "yes" as the value instead of "no" and
after rebooting found that this had absolutely no effect.
You also said:
| To reinstate the "Install" command, apply the .INF file association fix
from here:
|
http://www.dougknox.com/xp/file_assoc.htm
This one worked like a charm! I re-installed the Srchasst.inf file following
Bert's procedure, and I now have the Install command back. However, the
re-install had no effect whatsoever on the Search window.
I guess we're out of options here. I appreciate your help and will continue
to use Agent Ransack.
Thank you.
Frank D
