>> But I now wonder if what I did was overkill?

Location #1 in your search is for Internet Explorer Search companion.
Location #2 (CabinetState) is for Explorer.

And HKEY_USERS\<your SID> is your user profile hive. HKEY_CURRENT_USER is a pointer to HKEY_USERS\<your SID>


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"Csutak40" <csutak40@invalid.internode.on.net> wrote in message news:12t3tokb3564m49@corp.supernews.com...
Ramesh, MS-MVP <ramesh@XOX.mvps.org> wrote:
> Or, delete the "Use Search Asst" value. By default, XP search is
> enabled.
>
> HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\Curre ntVersion\Explorer\CabinetState
>
Thank you for this. I couldn't find it under
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\Curre ntVersion\Explorer\

So did a search. Found two -

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Main

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\Curre ntVersion\Explorer\CabinetState

Both said no, so I changed them to yes. This certainly fixed the problem. But I
now wonder if what I did was overkill? I did another search just now, in order
to copy the key and now found another two:


HKEY_USERS\S-1-5-21-682003330-1563985344-1202660629-1003\Software\Microsoft\Internet
Explorer\Main

HKEY_USERS\S-1-5-21-682003330-1563985344-1202660629-1003\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Exp lorer\CabinetState

I don't think they were there before. :-) Did I brake something while fixing it?
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