Re: Search Companion doesn't work

How do you unregister a .dll file? In addition, do you happen to know which
instance of srchui.dll to unregister (I found 2 instances of it)?

"Wesley Vogel" wrote:

> This worked for one fellow...
>
> [[Ok... I've been reading through the posts on the search companion all day
> and I've finally figured it out.
>
> I went in to "C:\Windows\srchasst\" and deleted everything I could
> I then unregistered the srchui.dll file
> Then I went into "C:\Windows\Inf\" right clicked srchasst.inf and clicked
> install.
>
> This did it.
>
> A couple notes.
> I tried just reregistering the srchui.dll file and that did not help
> I tried just installing srchasst.inf without deleting the files and that did
> not work as well.
> I tried to reregister shell32.dll, no luck
> I running SFC and ran a complete scan - didn't fix it.
> I ran the automated system recovery and this did not work as well...
> I tried coping the C:\Windows\srchasst\mui\0409\*.* files from a known good
> computer to the computer with the problem and this didn't fix it either.
>
> So, I don't know why everything had to be deleted and reinstalled, but it
> worked.]]
>
> --
> Hope this helps. Let us know.
>
> Wes
> MS-MVP Windows Shell/User
>
> In news:A244D52F-D734-4AAF-8E4E-1B5353C12030@xxxxxxxxxxxxx,
> Laura <Laura@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> hunted and pecked:
> > Like I said, I already tried reinstalling it.
> >
> > "Will Denny" wrote:
> >
> >> Hi
> >>
> >> Please see the following link to Kelly's web site:
> >>
> >> "Why doesn't Search work?"
> >> http://www.kellys-korner-xp.com/top10faqs.htm
> >>
> >> --
> >>
> >> Will Denny
> >> MS-MVP Windows Shell/User
> >> Please reply to the News Groups
> >>
> >>
> >> "Laura" <Laura@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
> >> news:EFC7B5D0-8022-40B4-B524-2A3C9EA0AE92@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> >>> I have a user with the default settings for Search Companion. Last
> >>> week, she
> >>> noticed that it all of a sudden stopped working. Whenever she types in
> >>> something to search and clicks on the Search button, IE sits there for a
> >>> minute, and then comes back with the following error message:
> >>>
> >>> "Unable to connect
> >>> The Web site is currently unavailable or the connection to the Internet
> >>> has
> >>> been lost. Make sure you are connected to the Internet and try again."
> >>>
> >>> The Search Companion doesn't work either if I run IE as the
> >>> Administrator. For now, I have her using the Classic search, but she
> >>> would like to use the
> >>> Search Companion.
> >>>
> >>> Any ideas? I have tried re-installing the Search Companion by running
> >>> install on srchasst.inf.
>
>
.

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