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| | Vista Search Fails to Initialize Hi For some reason my Vista search has stopped working completely. The service is still running though. Everytime i run the search i get the error message "search fails to initialize". Can anyone help pls. Thanks. |
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| | Re: Vista Search Fails to Initialize I would suggest updating to the latest version of Windows Search, available here: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/940157 "HHantu" <HHantu@xxxxxx> wrote in message news 7A2ED88-408D-4C22-9FC0-08C25B290DF0@xxxxxxQuote: > Hi > > For some reason my Vista search has stopped working completely. The > service > is still running though. Everytime i run the search i get the error > message > "search fails to initialize". > > Can anyone help pls. > Thanks. |
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| | Re: Vista Search Fails to Initialize Hi Dave, I cant use that KB because im not on Vista SP1 (which itself is another problem, for some reason the SP1 update keep failing on me. Vista SP1 support cant figure it out either). Thanks. "Dave Wood [MSFT]" wrote: Quote: > I would suggest updating to the latest version of Windows Search, available > here: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/940157 > > > "HHantu" <HHantu@xxxxxx> wrote in message > news 7A2ED88-408D-4C22-9FC0-08C25B290DF0@xxxxxxQuote: > > Hi > > > > For some reason my Vista search has stopped working completely. The > > service > > is still running though. Everytime i run the search i get the error > > message > > "search fails to initialize". > > > > Can anyone help pls. > > Thanks. > |
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| | Re: Vista Search Fails to Initialize Try 'Troubleshooting Windows Vista Search & Indexing Errors' (http://www.winvistaclub.com/t24.html). -- HappyAndyK www.WinVistaClub.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------ HappyAndyK's Profile: http://winvistaclub.com/forum/member.php?userid=4 View this thread: http://winvistaclub.com/forum/showthread.php?t=13682 |
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| | Re: Vista Search Fails to Initialize Im trying out some of the steps from the article. thanks. "HappyAndyK" wrote: Quote: > > Try 'Troubleshooting Windows Vista Search & Indexing Errors' > (http://www.winvistaclub.com/t24.html). > > > -- > HappyAndyK > > www.WinVistaClub.com > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > HappyAndyK's Profile: http://winvistaclub.com/forum/member.php?userid=4 > View this thread: http://winvistaclub.com/forum/showthread.php?t=13682 > > |
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