Re: [PCWorks] Search applet on Windows XP
- From: Peter Kaulback <peter@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: pcworks@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sun, 10 Aug 2008 12:25:25 -0400
Clint, how do you paste to the command line? Or perhaps you mean to
paste them into the Run box?
I know one can paste in a terminal in a Unix system but haven't seen it
on the command line in windows.
Peter Kaulback
Clint Hamilton-PCWorks Admin wrote:
> Harold, there's nothing "challenging" about it. ;-) Paste each
> line in the command window and hit [enter] after each.
> -Clint
>
> God Bless
> Clint Hamilton, Owner
> http://www.OrpheusComputing.com
> http://www.ComputersCustomBuilt.com
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Harold B."
>
> Oh you are so right. I finally took that path of finding a
> earlier restore
> point, and as a result my system was returned to the dial-up
> status. Of
> course, the hardware was all correctly connected (the filters
> on the house
> phones, the 6100F modem sitting on top of the tower, the
> Ethernet cable
> connected to modem and tower, the splitter on the one phone
> line I now
> need), but being new to this kind of setup, I called Verizon
> and they (I
> find many support people today are either in the Philippines or
> in northern
> India), they walked me through the set-up again. Of course, the
> good news is
> that the Search (or Find) that comes with Windows is now
> working. Maybe it
> was one of those files that Clint suggested; even if I found it
> on my own, I
> would never know where to put it. Well, he did mention that it
> "installs
> itself. His Run > cmd suggestion is intriguing (and would be
> very
> challenging to me). I could do it but would be damned if I know
> what's going
> on ... maybe someday I'll be up to that kind of problem solving
> (yeah
> right). --- Harold
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Hugh Vandervoort"
>> Restore would likely fix it, but you might lose your DSL
>> settings. ---
>> Hugh
>>
>> Harold B. wrote:
>>> Hello again ... After installing DSL (I'm sure that can't be
>>> cause for
>>> this puzzle), I cannot use my Search applet. The "Search
>>> Companion" in
>>> the left pane is blank (dark blue), or I get this message:
>>> "A file that
>>> is required to run Search Companion cannot be found. You may
>>> need to run
>>> setup." What does that mean? ... A related question: If I
>>> decide to
>>> "restore" to yesterday, would that effect my recent move
>>> from dial-up to
>>> DSL? --- Harold
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Clint Hamilton"
> Harold the search applet where and for what? I guess you mean
> XP's Native
> HD search. As for the restore, that of course all depends on
> what was
> changed. Even if you went through all the networking settings
> and internet
> settings and made a note of what they were, you'd still have
> the keys in the
> registry that would have been changed. Who setup the PC for
> it? If it was
> you then doing what you did over again should work. The
> problem is dialup
> has far different settings in the registry than broadband.
> There is a bunch
> of keys that have important broadband settings.
>
> I would first try and fix the problem with the search. Sounds
> like one of
> the issues that can pop up after going from dialup to BB
> (changing ISP's).
> Back when I went from dialup to BB I had to reformat for
> everything to work
> correctly and get rid of all the DUN and dialup junk on the PC.
> Every time
> you search for anything on your HD, XP "phones home" to M$ and
> lets them
> know! It tries to call to sa.windows.com, (so you should put
> in a block on
> that in your firewall). The way it sends info to them is of
> course
> dependent upon your ISP and connection, and that changed when
> you went to
> DSL. Did you see this? http://support.microsoft.com/kb/319949
> http://www.microsoft.com/Downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=9D1F0B73-259A-4A1B-93A4-F02C21BCB15A
>
> Also, or if you want to try these first, search for the file
> "Srchasst.inf".........did I say "search"? LOL. It's in the
> C:\WINDOWS\inf
> folder, and it may be a hidden folder. Right-click the file and
> "install".
> There's also two .XLS files in the C:\WINDOWS\srchasst\mui\0409
> folder that
> can get corrupted in the Temp folder or Temp internet files
> folder.
> "Balloon" and "Bar" I believe. These should be deleted by
> installing the
> inf file again. If they're not, delete them from those
> folders, (or better
> yet just keep those folders clean with something like IE
> Privacy Keeper). Or
> put each of these at the command prompt (Run > cmd), hit
> [Enter] after each
> line:
>
> cd /d "%SystemRoot%\System32"
> regsvr32 /u /s msxml3.dll
> regsvr32 /s msxml3.dll
> exit
>
> -Clint
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