Re: Search companion help, help, help!!!


Thank you kelly for your help, ive emailed you an extensive list of
issues which I dont need to post here.

Ive ran into a few forums and saw others who shared this problem and
were forced to do a clean install, so I hope this saves someone some
time.
problems;
Search, user accounts, help and support, filmstrip view pane, filetypes
(in folder options) were all blank and could not be reinstalled or
registered. Defaults would not stick in 'set program access and
defaults', Internet Explorer was corrupted , some programs wouldnt work
and win installer wasnt functioning properly (this one still is acting
up).

with that said I fixed all of the above by resetting the registry
permissions of
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE/software/classes
in regedit make sure in the classes key, permissions are set to 'full'
for;
administrators
system
and at LEAST 'read' for NON administrator accounts or set to full for;
users
user [your account name]
[OWNER/CREATOR was in there with no permissions and no way to set them
so I had to delete it ]

exit regedit and with the run dialog I ran these one at a time
regsvr32 jscript.dll
regsvr32 vbscript.dll
(and for filmstrip view I registered 'win fax and pic viewer' just to
be safe)
regsvr32 %windir%\system32\shimgvw.dll
All Blank windows were functioning again as well as programs that
stopped working. This did not fix win installer, but at least it
allowed me to install programs.
I still dont know why this happened but be careful of a program called
'IEXPLORER.EXE' [not to be confused with 'iexplore.exe']. 'IEXPLORER'
was a dialer trojan which may have been the culprit.
Good Luck

Kelly Wrote:
Why doesn't Search work?

http://www.kellys-korner-xp.com/top10faqs.htm

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All the Best,
Kelly (MS-MVP/DTS&XP)

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"brand dub" brand.dub.22kvyh@xxxxxxxxxxxx wrote in message
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cheryl wrote:
Does anyone have any suggestions or ideas on how to get my search
companion
to display? It's driving me crazy.
Thanks in advance.

you probably have other issues too right? maybe system restore , help
and support, user accounts or security centre might also be blank, do
you have problems with windows installer?
If you do you have a seriously corrupted registry permissions
problem.
It was probably from a virus that was deleted long ago but the issues
just keep stacking up.

i have these problems and everyone else seems to have done a 'clean
install'.
Several dialog boxes are blank
from the site:
http://support.microsoft.com/Default.aspx?kbid=831430
I used regedit to find

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\CLASSES\CLSID\{f414c260-6ac0-11cf-b6d1-00aa00bbbb58}\In
procServer32
and noticed i hve no CLASSES string. In filetypes in folder options i
have nothing there either. the permissions security box were set to
SYSTEM only and had no permissions set.
i dont know if this string is supposed to act this way but
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE/security/policy/secrets/SAC and
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE/security/policy/secrets/SAI
show : "cannot open "SAI or SAC", error while opening key"

Ive looked in many newsgroups and forums and wrote to a few MVPS and
this issue runs back to the summer of last year [2005] but no one has
any real lead on what caused it or how to correct it. happy hunting


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