Search Facility not working...Help Required

Good afternoon to you all.

This is my first post here on this forum, so please be gentle.

I have Windows XP and up until 2 days ago, have never had a problem. Unfortunately IE started to play up where it just wouldn't respond when I clicked on any links. This had previously never been a problem. Eventually after checking that no pop up settings had been altered, and no Norton or Spyware checks were finding anything suspicious, I eventually gave up.

I have now installed Firefox

Since this installation, I now seem to be having a problem with the ' Search ' facility.

Now the timing of this is probably totally unrelated, as I can't remember the last time I used the Search facility.

Whenever I go to the Start menu, and then click on Search.....absolutely nothing happens. No timer comes up, and nothing loads. The PC just hangs for about 30 seconds, and during this time I cannoth click on anything else. After about 30 secs everything is back to normal, however each time I try, exactly the same again.

Nothing else is affected, just this problem with the search facility.

I am a beginner as such, so this has got me stumped.

Surely the Search facility hasn't been disabled just because I have Firefox and not IE.

Please help.

Regards James

 

Go to this Doug Knox page, scroll down to and click on "Fix Windows XP Help," (near the bottom of the left-hand column). Download the file and run it according to the directions on the page. That should fix the Search problem.

If you want to fix the IE problem, go to this MVPS page. Scroll down a little to see the "regsvr32" commands and run them first. If that doesn't fix thing, although it usually does, scroll back up and do the File Types edits.

 

Many thanks for the limk to try and repair ' Search ' problem.

The only problem with this, is that I cannot find the correct link that I need.

Please help.

Regards James