Search has disappeared

[neljan]

Hi

I opened search & was presented with this absolute beauty:



Anyone know of a fix?

Thanks

[neljan]

*coughs*

 

[patio]

Give This a Whirl...

[Broni]

XP? Search from Start button?

[ecorg]

Ahhh, this has happned to me once...

Have you tried "uninstalling" internet explorer?

This is either down to a virus, or someone has been tampering ^_^

The windows local search requires IE to operate

[neljan]

Hehe... can't believe it's been over 3 years and a. I never thanked you for your suggestions and b. I never got round to fixing it

Give This a Whirl...

Didn't work.

XP? Search from Start button?

Yes.

Have you tried "uninstalling" internet explorer?

The windows local search requires IE to operate

Not sure if this is still relevant since I think it was IE6 around at the time and I now have IE8 installed?

[Rob Pomeroy]

Bump of the century!

Bin Windows' awful search facility and use something like Locate32 instead.

[neljan]

Bump of the century!

lmao, it's gotta be a contender at least right?

Bin Windows' awful search facility and use something like Locate32 instead.

Thanks I'll try that Rob.

[BC_Programmer]

Another alternative:

BCSearch

 

Note that it's "design goal" was quite the opposite of locate32. I was SICK and tired of all that indexing bullcrap that you have to go through just to search for files, and I found myself dropping to the prompt to do a dir /s to search for files in a specific directory. (note that windows 7 search has mitigated this somewhat). The idea of BCSearch (I believe I started a topic when I first set about writing it) was to be similar to the windows 98 "Find Files" dialog, but with more functionality.


hmm come to think of it it's about time I rewrote it in C#...