Re: Search problems
- From: "Robert Aldwinckle" <robald@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 22 Jun 2009 12:52:18 -0400
"Ian" <Ian@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:AF2B2452-8C0E-4F59-A648-75DECB7E8A87@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
I am running IE 6 under Windows XP Professional. Search not longer works,
and I am suspicious that the problems are caused by the June patches. I had
to remove MSIA which solved a lot of problems with IE, but Search is still a
problem!
When IE is opened with the Search pane present, or when the Search pane is
opened otherwise, line 32 gives a Permission denied Error, a MS Jscript error
at the start of the GetPartnerText function.
What URL are you getting? Right-click in the dialog and use Properties
to find it.
BTW is this en-us or a different locale?
If I ignore that error, enter a search term, and click the Search button, I
get the same error in the same place in the same function but it is now
reported as line 38.
If I continue on, I get no results, and when I close the Search pane I get
an Invalid arguement in line 5 "s.style.width = size;" in the function
resize. If I have not done a search, I get this same error.
If I click on the Customize button in the Search pane, I get a permission
denied error in line 124, a MS Jscript error at the second executable line of
function loadSettings.
What happens if you try to use it manually?
http://ie.search.msn.com/en-us/srchasst/srchcust.htm
where BING has been added to the list may be wishful thinking
I suspect. <eg>
FWIW in my case under IE8 I am getting an Information bar message
saying "This website wants to run the following add-on: Shell Doc Object
and Control Library" from Microsoft..." so perhaps security/obscurity
has disabled that in your system? Something like this, for example...
<title>Microsoft Security Advisory (969898): Update Rollup for ActiveX Kill Bits</title>
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/advisory/969898.mspx
but then it looks as if it would have to be something which you either
had not previously applied or which you had previously disabled...
<quote>
Does this update replace the Cumulative Security Update of ActiveX Kill Bits (950760)?
No, for the purpose of automatic updating, this update does not replace
the Cumulative Security Update of ActiveX Kill Bits (950760)
that is described in Microsoft Security Bulletin MS08-032.
Automatic updating will still offer the MS08-032 update to customers
regardless of whether or not they installed this update (969898).
However, customers who install this update (969898) do not need to install
the MS08-032 update to be protected with all the kill bits set in MS08-032.
</quote>
.... which I am not going to bother researching now. ; )
I can go on doing other things and generating other errors in Customize
Search Settings Window, but there does not seem much point.
I found a reference,
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/expertzone/newsgroups/reader.mspx?&query=search&lang=en&cr=US&guid=&sloc=en-us&dg=microsoft.public.windows.inetexplorer.ie6.browser&p=1&tid=848dd439-86b4-4852-8f90-263b5aa4bff0&mid=106a83c2-ec38-4f0e-8b10-75a08efce344,
which indicates that MS has removed the Customize Search ability from their
servers? But the Customize button is still there in the Search pane!
So? That is just the dialog, an artifact of an old implementation
which is still seen on the client side. The thread you found was telling you
that the *server* side has changed. Evidently the owners of the server
(e.g. MSN) don't want to continue supporting such an obsolete
non-revenue-generating feature.
Good luck
Robert
---
I tried resetting my IE settings as described in KB 895339, but it made no
difference. The registry entries all were as in the KB, except that the
subkey that was to be deleted did not exist.
--
Ian
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