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From: Dave Warren on 15 Dec 2009 14:06 In message <xn0gixa9j6qeiej000(a)msnews.microsoft.com> "Jeff Gaines" <jgaines_newsid(a)yahoo.co.uk> was claimed to have wrote: >On 15/12/2009 in message <hg77vl$l0o$1(a)news.xmission.com> Sardine wrote: > >>Sardine wrote: >>>My new Win 7/64 does not have a Search available to me. >>> >>>I can open "Start" and where most people see a search box, I have nothing. >>> >>>If I press "Win" + F I get an error about no program associated, etc. >>> >>>Help >>> >>>Sardine >> >> >>Never mind, I found a way to recover it. >> >>Sardine > >Are you going to share that with us? He/she had the search indexer/service/some-required-component disabled.
From: Sardine on 15 Dec 2009 14:06 Tom Orle wrote: > Sardine <sardine8(a)myway.com> wrote: > >> My new Win 7/64 does not have a Search available to me. >> >> I can open "Start" and where most people see a search box, I have nothing. > > Sardine > > Sure it does - every window you open has a search box on top right! > That one threw me for a loop as well. > > I guess it's a Microsoft 'gotcha'! ;-) > > -=tom=- > Not quite so easy Tom, I had no search boxes anywhere. See my post above telling how I recovered. This must have happened during install because I never did see a search box until I repaired it last night. Sardine
From: Jeff Gaines on 15 Dec 2009 17:42 On 15/12/2009 in message <hg8mh4$ed2$1(a)news.xmission.com> Sardine wrote: [snipped] Many thanks - it may help other people with the same problem :-) -- Jeff Gaines Dorset UK If you ever find something you like buy a lifetime supply because they will stop making it
From: R. C. White on 15 Dec 2009 18:13 Hi, Sardine. I'm glad to see that you've found Windows Search under Windows Features. Thank you for posting what you did to enable it. But I have a question and a comment. First, was your Search box hidden in plain sight? When I click Start, the Start menu appears, of course, with both a left and a right section. At the bottom of the left section, just above the Start button, below "All Programs", there is a box with greyed-out text that reads, "Search programs and files", followed by a magnifying-glass icon. Do you have that Search box? My comment is actually a quote from "Windows 7 Inside Out", by MVP Ed Bott, et al. In Chapter 9, "Using Windows Search", they have this "Caution!": "If you poke through the Windows Features list under Control Panel's Programs And Features category, you might notice an entry for Indexing Service (Cisvc.exe), which is missing from a default installation of Windows 7. You might be tempted to install and enable it. Don't. This service is a holdover from previous Windows versions and deserves its reputation as slow and difficult to use. It was supplanted by Windows Search beginning with Windows Vista, and the only reason this feature is still available (albeit buried deeply) is to enable corporate applications that rely on this legacy service." Note that this "Indexing Service" is NOT the same as "Windows Search", which you properly enabled. It also is not quite the same as Control Panel's "Indexing Options". (Microsoft's crack program-naming crew has been hard at work again.) Hmmm... I see that I have the Indexing Service checked. OK, now I've unchecked it, but haven't rebooted yet. If I get remarkable results after rebooting, I'll post back with remarks to let you know. RC -- R. C. White, CPA San Marcos, TX rc(a)grandecom.net Microsoft Windows MVP Windows Live Mail 2009 (14.0.8089.0726) in Win7 Ultimate x64 "Sardine" <sardine8(a)myway.com> wrote in message news:hg76c0$kd6$1(a)news.xmission.com... > My new Win 7/64 does not have a Search available to me. > > I can open "Start" and where most people see a search box, I have nothing. > > If I press "Win" + F I get an error about no program associated, etc. > > Help > > Sardine
From: Dave Warren on 15 Dec 2009 18:34
In message <OFxVxwdfKHA.1652(a)TK2MSFTNGP05.phx.gbl> "R. C. White" <rc(a)grandecom.net> was claimed to have wrote: >First, was your Search box hidden in plain sight? When I click Start, the >Start menu appears, of course, with both a left and a right section. At the >bottom of the left section, just above the Start button, below "All >Programs", there is a box with greyed-out text that reads, "Search programs >and files", followed by a magnifying-glass icon. Do you have that Search >box? If you disable Windows Search from Programs and Features, this box disappears (or is deactivated) |