Re: Search Assistant Not Working Right

"Robert Aldwinckle" <robald@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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"Jan Il" <abuseSPAM@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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It sure sounds as if you are talking about the popup window
with that URL rather than a separately launched window with it.
Please confirm.

Well...I'm not sure which, but, it is the same as you show in the
screenshot, it looks identical to that window that the Customize button
opens, the same that it opens when it is working properly.


Jan,

To be clear, what I mean by "the popup window" is the instance
of that page when it is launched by clicking on the Customize button
in the Search bar. Notice, for example, that it does not have any
Address bar. But the most significant thing that is different about it
(for my point) is that you can't right-click in it nor can you clone it,
e.g. by pressing Ctrl-N. That's why I want you to try opening the URL
in its own normal window.

But...I guess I am the densest thing since granite, but, I don't understand
which URL you are talking about. Where is the URL located? I just can't
determine what URL or where you are taling about. There are two methods to
use the Internet Search that I see...one when you open IE and click the
Search button on the toolbar, and from the Start>Search>Search the Internet,
which also opens IE and the Search panel.

Both windows will look very much alike
but you will have more control over the one which is launched
by using the URL instead of by using the Customize button.
Evidently you need more control in order to do a Refresh,
e.g. in order to make that Loading... symptom change
to the appropriate lists of options. From what I recall we used
to be able to right-click on the Search bar itself but I guess they
must have changed it sometime since then to inhibit that.

Once you do that you should find that you are able to use it to switch
between the various search presentation modes (e.g. switch back to
Search Companion if you like) and change your default search providers
associated with each mode.

If it is the one from the Start>Search>Search the Internet that you click
from the Search window there, when I tried it from there it did not make any
difference at all. I got the additional selections list alright, and the
list boxes showed up, but, as I said, none of them would work, nothing would
hold, nothing changed.

I do have some interesting results posted under Jim's post to report, and
some others now that I have finally finished with the laptop.

Jan :)


Good luck

Robert
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