Vista Search

[Don]

I'm having a problem with the search funcition in Vista Business.

As soon as I type 1 character in the search box, the icon turns from a
magnifying glass to an "x".

In advanced search, the location drop down menu says "chose location" and I
can change selected locations. Once I select a location the search function
works fine. There is no default location in either the search location on
the top right corner search box or the advanced location.

How do I resolve this? Thanks in advance.

Don

 

[Robert Firth]

"As soon as I type 1 character in the search box, the icon turns from a
magnifying glass to an "x"."

That is perfectly normal. The "x" is there so that you can cancel the search
and get back to the start menu display before you searched for something.
You don't have to press anything to submit the search.

As for default location, the default location should be all indexed areas.
If you want to search in a specific folder, you might be better off adding
that folder to the list of index folders.

 

[Jon]

I'm having a problem with the search funcition in Vista Business.

As soon as I type 1 character in the search box, the icon turns from a
magnifying glass to an "x".

This is true. The red light also goes on on my cooker when I turn the dial.

In advanced search, the location drop down menu says "chose location" and
I can change selected locations. Once I select a location the search
function works fine. There is no default location in either the search
location on the top right corner search box or the advanced location.

How do I resolve this? Thanks in advance.

Don

The start location is determined by how you open up search.

If you press Start > Search , then the default is always indexed locations.
If you open up a folder, then the default is that folder and subfolders
etc

 

[Ronnie Vernon MVP]

Don

As soon as you start typing in the box on the top/right, the search will
start. The 'X' is there to cancel the search. The default is to search in
indexed locations. If you need to search in anything other than the default
or non-indexed locations, then you use the Advanced options.

You can add or remove the indexed locations in Control Panel/Indexing
options.

 

[Don]

My problem is that it doesn't start searching anything. Might be that
you're cooker's light comes on, but it doesn't serve much of a function if
the cooker doen't come on, unless you get off on looking at red lights.

From the start menu, I click on search, type in what I'm searching for and
that's where it ends. NO results. ONly way to get results is Advanced
search and then define where to search.

Thanks for your replies

 

[Jon]

From the start menu, I click on search, type in what I'm searching for and
that's where it ends. NO results. ONly way to get results is Advanced
search and then define where to search.

Thanks for your replies

This suggests that the location isn't one of your indexed locations.

One thing to bear in mind is that Search by default only looks in subfolders
of C:\Users (+ start menu entries). So if your files are in say
"C:\myfiles", then they won't be found. To have them indexed you have to
explicitly add them to the Indexed folders list, which you do via

Control Panel > Indexing Options > Modify > ...



Other than that your index may have become corrupted, and you can repair it
via

Control Panel > Indexing Options > Advanced > Restore Defaults > Reboot

If that option isn't available then this registry change followed by a
reboot achieves the same

Change 'SetupCompletedSuccessfully' to 0 at
'HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows Search'