Re: Search Options from Search Explorer Bar in IE6 Missing on Win2

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Oh, now i did it! I tried the new MSn Toolbar. Played around with the "tabs
feature". Then it installed some indexing thing I don't need. So, I
uninstalled it. Now my search asssitant pane no longer offers any other
search engines!!! Only MSN. Now that really sucks. I'm going to try to
manualy insert the proper registry keys, copied from one of my other
computers toa t least restore the search privider option!...bad to worse! is
there any other program that allows you to search and open the link in a new
window instead of having to click back all the time to the search results?

Rick

"doug" wrote:

same thing happening here,I thought it was my computer. Have been searching
for info on this problem for a week now. I too want the old search back to
normal. I tried doing search companion reinstall, but couldnt find
srchasst.inf file

"brandon dub" wrote:

Sorry, it sounded like galen was speaking of an IE beta issue..
Now that you guys mention it I too noticed search companion restarts at the
default page. I recently did a Cean Install so I didn't think much of it..

As for IE search, I never used it before but I know Microsoft is changing
MSN's web features (Windows Live!, MSN email LIVE!) and probably changed its
scripting behaviours in IE to make it more "user friendly" as IE search
incorporates MSN search engines (wasn't IE srch a .dll before?) . I find
opera more powerful for searching the internet, I have 6 search boxes for in
page, dictionary, google...but I understand IE7 will allow you to build your
own search boxes from web sites, that would be great!

Apparently you can download a MSN desktop search box which also creates
tabbed browsing in IE 6?...
http://desktop.sympatico.msn.ca/default_desktop.aspx

Uninstalling a hotfix doesnt always work, but if you want, try to register
the original search .inf and .dll from the i386 folder or from winXP or SP2
CD. I could't find any security update info sheets mentioning Ie search so it
certainly shouldn't hurt to try...

Reinstalling the Search companion

1. Login as administrator
2. Click Start, click Run, type %systemroot%\inf, and then click OK.
3. Locate the Srchasst.inf file.
4. Right-click the Srchasst.inf file, and then click Install.

This reinstalls the files that Search Companion uses. When you're prompted
for the system files, insert your Windows XP CD, or
point to Windows\ServicePackFiles\i386 folder (if you've applied SP1 or SP2
separately) which-ever has the updated system files.

This simply registers search assistant and won't do anything noticable
unless you're experiencing problems with search assistant;
Click Start, Run and type:

regsvr32 jscript.dll
regsvr32 %windir%\srchasst\srchui.dll

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"Rick" wrote:

Actually, you are getting a few posts mixed together. I never had IE7 beta on
my machine. I can't wait for the final version. It seem alot of people don't
use Ms's search pane which opens on the left side of your main IE window.
(first you have to get rid of the stupid animated dog and use classic
internet search. Then you can select multiple search engines, enter your
criteria, and click next to see what each search engine came up with without
disturbing the main window. Very handy! I do use Google but when you click a
link, you navigate away from the Google search results window. Then you have
to click ,back, back, etc. Sorry if this is simplified but it seems people
don't know what I'm talking about. Now you can't pick more that one search
engine at a time. And if you close the pane and reopen it it resets it to the
begining. Before it would remember the last settings. So there! I want it
back the way it's been for years or a nice explanation! Or a cool substitute
that does the same thing.

Rick


"brand dub" wrote:

" Perhaps MS put some programming in one of their security etting patches that
purposely crippled the IE6 Search program due to a security hole in the
Search program. I do not do automatic updates on my home or work computers.
I do not recall reading, in any of the descriptions of the updates and
patches that I did choose to download and install, anything that mentioned
the IE Search program."

Now THAT IS a statement. "Perhaps MS put some programming in one of their
security patches that purposely crippled the IE6 Search program due to a
security hole in the Search program".
I don't want to sound rude but Galen, the last thing MS would do is hack
off its own limb because its foot got a cramp. People shoot broken horses not
software which I sometimes think think IS backwards. You are somewhat right
though, almost all MS patches are usually about security issues and fixes, it
may just be a bad patch (which can be uninstalled) or a virus of some sort.

Rick, if you have seen a lot of this is it on any and all OS's and what
exactly do you two mean seeing about 'IE7 bloatware vomit' (BTW,I used IE 7
for a week and got rid of it because it blew - but it worked and was a long
overdue upgrade for IE but I still prefer Opera. McIE7 and its Vista
companion ARE bloatware but that is another issue)

I'm not clear on how you manage to preceive Internet Explorer 7 (beta or
otherwise) is on a system by accident, and how it was located are there icons
associated? Is there the IE 7 GUI? The property sheet? what up?

I'm curious also because last year I found "Iexplorer.exe", a combo of
native explorer and Iexplore, found in my i386 folder.
This was a "sub: female dog" to delete, I couldnt quarantine it nor has , to
this day, any Antivirus program picked it up (I used Norton anti to scan it
and gave it a "2 thumbs up"). As a kicker, I thought I deleted it 4 months
prior to that last incident....
I'll spare you the details but it disabled MS firewall, gave NortonsAnti
some problems and I suspect it may have messed up the OS GUI's/scipting
registry permissions.

A fine example would be a blank search page.

But the two of you are being a little vague about your issues. So search
doesn't remember its last search term? And please, do tell about this "IE7
installed itself" phenominon? I'm just as confused as Rose.

==============================================================

"Galen Sievert" wrote:

Rick,

" I guess we all went to our computers in our sleep and down loaded IE7."

Exactly!

Based on the negative aspects/behaviors being attributed to IE7 by the
contributors on the IE General NG, I was implying that some part of IE7
programming was involved in the crippling of the Search program that worked
very well once upon a time on IE6.

Perhaps MS put some programming in one of their security patches that
purposely crippled the IE6 Search program due to a security hole in the
Search program. I do not do automatic updates on my home or work computers.
I do not recall reading, in any of the descriptions of the updates and
patches that I did choose to download and install, anything that mentioned
the IE Search program.

Galen

"Rose" wrote:

You stated:

From what I have read on the IE-general NG,
I
believe that the IE7 bogus beta vomit version of the search program
has
hijacked and crippled the search engine program of IE6.

Doesn't this mean that you did install IE7? That would seem to me to be
the
only way that it could cause you problems, if you had installed it. How
else could you connect the two?

Just confused.



"Galen W. Sievert, PC, MS Ed." <gsievert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in
message news:eUlHv0uQGHA.3872@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Brandub,
I wish it were as simple as just uninstalling IE7. However,
as
Rick stated, I don't (that I know of) have any IE7 bloat on my
computer. I
never did intentionally or knowingly download and/or install IE7.

Also, my system does not have a "srchui.dll" file. Is that
an
XP
file? I run ONLY Win2K on my Machine. Or was that file deleted by
whatever
clone that was unknowingly installed to take the place of the real
search
program that formerly existed?

Galen

"brand dub" <brentdub@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:9F074681-94EB-490E-B1C0-C39C8E1F4ABA@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Galen, please this.

First of all BETA's should be tested in seperate partitions from your
own
boot OS (IE; so when you update your Boot operating system (Win2K SP4
patched, IE 6.0.2800.1106 patched) with IE6 files it doesn't replace
your
IE7
beta files).


#2 IE7 beta has it's own forums to address your issues and comments.
When
you installed IE7 there should have been a shortcut to the forum and
support
from the browsers favorites menu or in the system IE folder.

more info here
http://www.microsoft.com/windows/IE/ie7/default.mspx
comments go here


http://www.microsoft.com/communities/newsgroups/list/en-us/default.aspx?dg=microsoft.public.internetexplorer.general&cat=en_us_28cca3eb-7037-4d4f-bde1-d8efee1f1420&lang=en&cr=us


BUT MOST IMPORTANTLY!!

" > (Galen) Is there a way to restore the program associated with
the
Search Bar
back to the way it was (and should be) when IE6 was first
installed?
(Win2K SP4 patched, IE 6.0.2800.1106 patched)"

1.Yes there is. get rid of your IE7 beta.
2."Internet Explorer 7 Beta 2 Preview will only run on Windows® XP
Service
Pack 2 (SP2) systems" as it says right on the download page in bold
letters.
2.Roll Back to IE6 or uninstall IE7
3.a/Try to register the search assistant with
Start>run , type:
regsvr32 %windir%\srchasst\srchui.dll
and go.
or
b/find the search assistant file "srchui.dll" in your system and
double
click it to install the driver in the registry.

Good Luck.

Brandon 'dub'
self annointed computer user



"Galen W. Sievert, PC, MS Ed." wrote:

Hi,
I am no longer getting any search options -- Dictionary,
Encyclopedia,
etc. -- nor am I able to customize the search options on the Search
Bar.
Also, now when I close the Search Bar to maximize the IE window
and
then
click on the Search button on the Standard toolbar to re-open the
Search
Bar, all of the previous search results are gone! I must re-enter
the
search
criteria again!!



This did not happen before -- I was able to re-open the
Search Bar to continue to search the previously listed Web pages
(If
the
IE/Web page was left open). From what I have read on the IE-general
NG,
I
believe that the IE7 bogus beta vomit version of the search program
has
hijacked and crippled the search engine program of IE6. (A result
of
using
automatic updates?)




Galen














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