bpa_retired schreef:
> Add'l info
> Last night I found an empty directory under c\windows called "SxsCaPendDel"
> which I did not recognize. A "search" showed no other references. I
> temporarily changed the name before shutting down the PC. Today, I find that
> the "search" does not work. Restoring the original directroy name did not
> help.
>
>
>
> "bpa_retired" wrote:
>
>> Today I tried to use the Windows 'Search' utility and encountered a problem.
>>
>> Upon clicking on 'Search' (from START menu) an ERROR window was displayed
>> with the message " A file that is required to run Search Companion cannot be
>> found. You may need to run setup."
>>
>> I am not sure what 'You may need to run setup' means.
>>
>> Yesterday morning the (2) May Windows Updates were installed --with no
>> noticeable after effects. Yesterday afternoon the 'Search' utility was
>> indeed used with no problems. After turning the PC on this morning the
>> utility does not work.
>>
>> OS is WinXP Pro SP3 with current updates.
>>
>> Help/suggestions would be appreciated.

Hi,

I just found out that Win XP Search is broken anyway.
It cannot find files with all kind of names, because Microsoft deems
them usefull for you. (Thumbs.db in my case)
Incredible.

Read this article and stop using Win XP search, since you never know
what it skips....
http://www.dacs.org/archive/0212/feature4.htm

It links to:
http://www.mythicsoft.com/agentransack/?fwd=ar
which works great out of the box. ;-)

Regards,
Erwin Moller




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