XP explorer search issues

[SirMatthew]

I have ONE user who has consistent problems when searching both her own drive
and a mapped network drive.

I've gone through the tips in the other threads, installed and reinstalled,
run every spy/malware application and av, etc., turned the indexing off, and
on and off and nothing has worked. I have tried everything I can think of,
short of running over said computer with my car.

When searching, it gets hung up on a folder, usually a folder that contains
one or two files, and just sits for eternity.

I don't wish to install a third-party application. I simply want the
windows search to actually search. Any ideas?

Thanks!

 

[nass]

I have ONE user who has consistent problems when searching both her own drive
and a mapped network drive.

I've gone through the tips in the other threads, installed and reinstalled,
run every spy/malware application and av, etc., turned the indexing off, and
on and off and nothing has worked. I have tried everything I can think of,
short of running over said computer with my car.

When searching, it gets hung up on a folder, usually a folder that contains
one or two files, and just sits for eternity.

I don't wish to install a third-party application. I simply want the
windows search to actually search. Any ideas?

Thanks!

Did you tried to create another Profile for that User, say I'm( MS) then my
profile get corrupted and want to keep MS as my user name. I will put MS1
then copy the data or test first and see if the search will work on that
account with the same said privileges, if it was the case of a profile
corruption/damaged then a copy of the data on the corrupted profile (MS) to
(MS1) will get the data from the corrupted profile to the new one (MS1) after
making sure all the data needed are there and accessable we can safely delete
the MS account and then rename the MS1 to MS.
How to Identify a Damaged User Profile and Create a New Profile
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/811151
How to copy data from a corrupted user profile to a new profile
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/811151
HTH.
nass