Search No Longer Works

Hi Oscar,

If a new Search program got installed, that may explain why it used to
work.

I don't see Windows Search 4.0 in my list of Microsoft Updates, nor in
Remove Programs. Can it be hiding somewhere else?
CB
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"oscar" <oscar2times RemoveThis @hotmail.com> wrote in message
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> Hi,
>
> Go here first for some basic info:
>
>
> http://support.microsoft.com/kb/932989/en-us
>
>
> Two considerations:
> 1) try rebuilding the index using Indexing Options
> 2) if this trouble began after downloading Windows Search 4.0 update, then
> consider uninstalling it.
>
>
> --
> oscar
>
> "Right click is a good friend..."
>
>
> "C and A Bredt" <abredt_at-delete-this RemoveThis @socal.rr.com> wrote in message
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>>I used to be able to find files in My Documents and its subfolders by
>>typing part of the name into the search bar at the top of Windows
>>Explorer. Now when I try to search, it returns no results. I type in part
>>of the name of a file that I can see is in My Documents. What am I doing
>>wrong?
>>
>> I'm using Vista Home Premium.
>>
>> --
>> C and A Bredt
>

Hi, CB.

WS4.0 is well-hidden in the updates lists. Well, hidden in plain sight, I
guess. There are so many others that it might be hard to spot. :>(

In my fully up-to-date-as-of-this-morning Vista Ultimate x64, in my list of
Installed Updates in Windows Update it is the 25th item from the top, dated
7/23/08m and listed as:
Windows Search 4.0 for Windows Vista x64-based Systems (KB940157)

In Programs and Features, it doesn't appear at all until I click "View
installed updates". Then it is alphabetized as simply "Windows Search 4.0".

But Indexing Options doesn't identify it as WS4 - or as anything at all.
:>(

RC
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Microsoft Windows MVP
(Running Windows Live Mail 2008 in Vista Ultimate x64 SP1)

"C and A Bredt" <abredt_at-delete-this RemoveThis @socal.rr.com> wrote in message
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> Hi Oscar,
>
> If a new Search program got installed, that may explain why it used to
> work.
>
> I don't see Windows Search 4.0 in my list of Microsoft Updates, nor in
> Remove Programs. Can it be hiding somewhere else?
> CB
> --
> C and A Bredt
> "oscar" <oscar2times RemoveThis @hotmail.com> wrote in message
> news:%23y0IuwB%23IHA.4268@TK2MSFTNGP04.phx.gbl...
>> Hi,
>>
>> Go here first for some basic info:
>>
>>
>> http://support.microsoft.com/kb/932989/en-us
>>
>>
>> Two considerations:
>> 1) try rebuilding the index using Indexing Options
>> 2) if this trouble began after downloading Windows Search 4.0 update,
>> then consider uninstalling it.
>>
>>
>> --
>> oscar
>>
>> "Right click is a good friend..."
>>
>>
>> "C and A Bredt" <abredt_at-delete-this RemoveThis @socal.rr.com> wrote in message
>> news:%23BFV9T09IHA.3612@TK2MSFTNGP04.phx.gbl...
>>>I used to be able to find files in My Documents and its subfolders by
>>>typing part of the name into the search bar at the top of Windows
>>>Explorer. Now when I try to search, it returns no results. I type in part
>>>of the name of a file that I can see is in My Documents. What am I doing
>>>wrong?
>>>
>>> I'm using Vista Home Premium.
>>>
>>> --
>>> C and A Bredt

Maybe Windows Search 4.0 update resetted the search options.
Check the option to search with a part of the name.


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