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When i go to start then Search and i search for a file it allways freezes. Ive done virus scanns and such and i dont know whats rong with it. On xp n have serivce pack 2.

Venney

Hey Venny! I had a pc a month back that had the same problem. I fixed it by installing this»

Hope it works for ya...

I use a program called Ava Find for searching. It's much better than windows built-in searching because it's instanttanious... it gives you results in less than a second.

I also downloaded Google Desktop Search which allows you to search inside your files. It searches through your emails (outlook or outlook express), Aol IM history, Word, Excel, Powerpoint, Text files, and your web history. I'd switch over completely, but it google desktp search only seems to keep track of certain types of files. It'll find mp3's, but it doesn't find weird file names. I searched for bcd.cfg, and it found references to that file in 2 webpages that I went to, and a reference to it in a help file for bart's corpmodboot cd, but did not give me a link to the file directly.

Both of these are powererful tools, but until google desktop search gets a little more refined (its still a beta program), I'm using Ava Find for most of my search needs

I did the

Hey Venny! I had a pc a month back that had the same problem. I fixed it by installing this» http://www.kellys-korner-xp.com/regs_ed ... rvice2.reg


and it diddnt work

and im going to try n find a download for Ava Find. But really i would like to fix the windows 1 so if any body else has any ideas please let me know.

Venney

Heres another free search»

Heres another patch if you want to give it a try»

Here is the info on the above patch»

Hope this helps

hey, i tryed the patch, says my service pack is more recent or summint so no need for it, n ta for thr program its allrite, but it doesnt do what i need, i need to fix the windows 1 to be honest. Thank you tho i shal be using it for some files if i need ot search.

Venney