Re: Search function issues

ilmcuts wrote:
> Hey all,
>
> On some setups (both 2K and XP) the windows search function doesn't
> work if Litestep is the shell, no matter if the M$ DDE server or our
> own implementation is used. I've put breakpoints into the (liteman)
> DDE code and could thus track it down to the SHFindFiles call. It
> keeps returning REGDB_E_CLASSNOTREG (0x80040154L, "Class not
> registered"). The M$ DDE server probably fails at the same place.
> Interestingly, the moment an instance of IE is running it works just
> fine.
>
> On other people's setups the search function works as it should,
> whether IE is running or not.
>
> Any ideas? Anyone with similar problems?

The search function works for me (IE or no IE) if I use the explorer
menu (or keyboard shortcut, Ctrl+E) or a button on the explorer toolbar,
but it does not if I use the context menu (right click on folder and
select "search"). At one point I could not access search functions at
all - it turned out that I had disabled a setting for "Show search
results on desktop" or something like that (I can't even find it now -
may have been pre-XP), and that made searching go away completely. No
error messages or warnings, just - nothing happening. Restoring that
setting brought back the search function.

That's all the input from here...


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