Re: Search Assistant Not Working Right


"Jim Byrd" <jrbyrd@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Yeah, I agree Bear - looking at the rest of the thread something's clearly
out of kilter beyond a normal .reg reset. I wonder if a Tools|Internet
Options|Programs| "Reset Web Settings" or a Repair IE:

The one thing that gets me is that is it not limited to one type of OS, it
seems to be affecting them all across the board, and yet, not all Users. And
it comes and goes. So....how the heck do you nail it down? It does seem to
be Internet generated, but, why not all Users?


"3. Another alternative for just IE6 repair if you don't have IE6 listed
in
Add-Remove Programs, then in Start|Run then enter

"rundll32 setupwbv.dll,IE6Maintenance"

without the quotes, exactly as shown (it's case sensitive), and select the
appropriate entry. More detailed info is available here: Description of
the Internet Explorer Repair Tool
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;q194177 (You may
have to re-install Sun Java JRE if you had it installed afterwards, BTW.)"


would work, or has this already been tried somewhere along the way?

IIRC, somewhere along the way in one of the threads here or the AumHa forum,
I or someone else did recommend doing a repair, and AIRC it did not resolve
the problem. I am really pretty sure at this point, given that I am
experiencing the same situation as the OPs that is it not a problem with the
PC's, program or update. We are not all using the same OS, firewall, AV or
other such programs, the only link is IE. However, there too, is a
difference, as some only have IE6 SP1, and some of us have IE SP2. ????

Jan :)
MS MVP - Windows IE/OE [DTS/AumHa


--
Regards, Jim Byrd, MS-MVP/DTS/AH-VSOP
My Blog, Defending Your Machine, here:
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"PA Bear" <PABearMVP@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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|| It didn't do what "Anna" wanted it to do when she tried it from my post
in her
|| thread at Aumha Forums, Jim. I think "something" definitely has
changed. --
|| ~PA Bear
||
|| Jim Byrd wrote:
||| Hi Jan - Did you try my .reg file on this?
|||
|||
||| Download and run:
||| http://www.kellys-korner-xp.com/regs_edits/RestoreSearch2.REG to
restore
||| your default Search functionality and reset your prefixes. You'll
have
to
||| manually re-select any Search Customizations you may have had,
however.
|||
|||
||| "Jan Il" <abuseSPAM@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
||| news:%23mlBiTwSGHA.424@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
|||| As of this time, the Search has changed back to it was earlier this
|||| morning. None of the Customize settings will work, and everything
just
|||| hangs up again.
||||
|||| Hope this helps.
||||
|||| Jan :)
|||| MS MVP - Windows IE/OE [DTS/AumHa]
|||| Smiles are meant to be shared,
|||| that's why they're so contagious.
||||
|||| Replies are posted only to the newsgroup for the benefit or other
readers.
|||| How to make a good newsgroup post:
|||| http://www.dts-l.org/goodpost.htm
||||
||||
|||| "Jan Il" <abuseSPAM@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
|||| news:ekJn4orSGHA.1728@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
||||| They just now changed here, or at least within the last hour. I see
the
||||| same search list I did a few days ago when I first checked it due to
||||| Anna's post. It then changed the Customize to only two selections,
Search
||||| Assistant and Use one search service. No list boxes, and when I
tried
to
||||| select one of the choices, they would not work. When I clicked OK,
it
||||| just brought the search list up again, and all that was in it was
the
||||| search window and the GO button.
|||||
||||| Now, I see the same Search window in the panel, but, the Customize
is
as
||||| it was before.
|||||
||||| Hope this helps.
|||||
||||| Jan :)
||||| MS MVP - Windows IE/OE [DTS/AumHa]
||||| Smiles are meant to be shared,
||||| that's why they're so contagious.
|||||
|||||
||||| "PA Bear" <PABearMVP@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
||||| news:%23knrsXjSGHA.4616@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
|||||| Check again today and see if things have changed at all. They have
here.
|||||| Why? I have no idea.
|||||| --
|||||| ~Robear Dyer (PA Bear)
|||||| MS MVP-Windows (IE/OE, Security, Shell/User)
||||||
|||||| PA Bear wrote:
||||||| See these recent threads: http://snipurl.com/f05w
|||||||
||||||| Yes, Search Assistant has changed. No, we don't know how or why.
(This
||||||| may
||||||| have something to do with it:
||||||| http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/business/260821_msftads25.html.)
No,
||||||| there
||||||| doesn't seem to be a way of getting the old Search Assistant back.
|||||||
||||||| Steve Horrillo wrote:
|||||||| I notice the Search Assistant isn't working right anymore. "Next"
is
|||||||| now
|||||||| greyed out and will only let me use one chosen search engine.
This
has
|||||||| happened on my XP as well as my Win 2000 machine. What's wrong?




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