Vista - Search Enhancement Folder - Mr. Jonathan Kay

Hello there Mr. Jonathan Kay...I have a question for you specifically. I
helped someone download Windows Live Messenger 2009 (updating their 2008
installation) with no other live services selected besides Messenger. It
seemed to work fine except they had the "Search Enhancement Folder" open
inside an explorer window everytime they started their computer or used fast
user switching to switch users. I google searched it, and found a reply by
you to someone in the vista forums which said the following:

"Greetings,

Weird -- the Search Enhancement Pack is part of the Live toolbar, not
Messenger.

You can try removing the Pack itself by click Start, then Run, entering the
following:
msiexec /x {299CF645-48C7-4FA1-8BCD-5CE200CF180D}
and clicking OK.

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Jonathan Kay
Microsoft MVP - Windows Live Messenger
MSN Messenger/Windows Messenger
MessengerGeek Blog: http://www.messengergeek.com
Messenger Resources: http://messenger.jonathankay.com
(c) 2008 Jonathan Kay - If redistributing, you must include this signature
or citation
--"

I copied your above line, and put it in the run command, but I only got the
"can not uninstall a program that's not installed" message (I forgot the
exact wording). After restarting, the problem persisted. What exactly is
that line above supposed to do?

I was finally able to get it from coming up....I uninstalled the windows
live upload tool, and sign-in assistant, and deleted the search enhancement
folder from the registry and from right clicking on start and exploring all
users and that fixed it.

Oh, yeah, forgot to mention...the person's computer has Windows XP SP3 on it.

And, it didn't happen when I installed WLM 2009 on my laptop that also has
Windows XP SP3.





"thebigdintexas" wrote:

Greetings,

It just removes the search enhancement pack, but if it's not installed then it can't
uninstall it.

Where exactly is this folder located on the hard drive anyway?

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Jonathan Kay
Microsoft MVP - Windows Live Messenger
MSN Messenger/Windows Messenger
MessengerGeek Blog: http://www.messengergeek.com
Messenger Resources: http://messenger.jonathankay.com
(c) 2009 Jonathan Kay - If redistributing, you must include this signature or citation
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"thebigdintexas" <thebigdintexas@xxxxxx> wrote in message
news:A4A617B0-E6EB-4F4B-8CE9-88101E592CE1@xxxxxx

I think I just found it under "programs" - "microsoft" if I remember correctly.



"Jonathan Kay [MVP]" wrote:

Hi,

Yep that's where that would be if it were installed. As a test, why not rename the folder
from Search Enhancement to something else and then see if there's any whining at startup
after that. If not, go ahead and delete the folder.

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Jonathan Kay
Microsoft MVP - Windows Live Messenger
MSN Messenger/Windows Messenger
MessengerGeek Blog: http://www.messengergeek.com
Messenger Resources: http://messenger.jonathankay.com
(c) 2009 Jonathan Kay - If redistributing, you must include this signature or citation
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"thebigdintexas" <thebigdintexas@xxxxxx> wrote in message
news:071287DF-D544-48BC-8E79-925E52643F51@xxxxxx

Sorry...as I mentioned towards the bottom of my first post in this thread, I
already deleted it all off the computer.




"Jonathan Kay [MVP]" wrote:

Oh, I'm an idiot, sorry. Well, good

It's weird, I've done probably near 100 of these installs and not once has this happened.

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Jonathan Kay
Microsoft MVP - Windows Live Messenger
MSN Messenger/Windows Messenger
MessengerGeek Blog: http://www.messengergeek.com
Messenger Resources: http://messenger.jonathankay.com
(c) 2009 Jonathan Kay - If redistributing, you must include this signature or citation
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"thebigdintexas" <thebigdintexas@xxxxxx> wrote in message
news:C70EDE55-D4C9-4897-ABEB-B00B2C3080B4@xxxxxx

Hello

I have just updated three XP SP3 computers (all set up the same) with the latest WL Messenger and Mail and I have this same problem on one of them (a Dell Laptop). I will try the fixes mentioned here.