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"Classic Search"?
It was just as simple as changing the option from search companion to classic...didn't even know that option was there...I appriciate it GREATLY! Mixee. I think that I have heard something about "classic search" but I don't have that OS and don't know how to specify it. HOW TO: Configure the Search Companion in

How do I get the classic search back?
Mark Gillespie mark.gilles...@gmail.com microsoft public windows 64bit general Just when you thought Windows XP "Bob Dog" search could not get any worse, they throw the Vista search at you, which is totally useless. (I have just spent 1/2 hour trying to get it to find .svn files which I know exist, but it fails to

classic search customization script error message
Out of curiosity, I opened TweakUI and selected Explorer -> "Use classic search in explorer". Then I repeated the search, and it didn't find any of them! I checked the advanced options and I did have "subfolders" checked. I tried the seach initially limited to C:, then let it take the default of all partitions.

Thanks for your reply, .... but still the problem continues
+ How can I change the "default" user profile to use the "Windows Classic" theme so that all new user accounts I create get the "Windows Classic" theme by default instead of the "Windows XP" theme? + How can I eliminate the Windows XP "Search" dog cartoon from mine and *all* other user profiles?

Tweak UI classic search problem
I have no idea when this started (I use the classic search, other 3 users liked the puppy dog) so looking back at updates will be a needle in a hay stack. And for most what you are already doing works (using Classic). The issue seems to be that Search Assistant will try to connect to http://sa.windows.com This

"Classic Search"?
Wes In news:1100895061.290930.105050@z14g2000cwz.googlegroups.com, Michael Roach <mro...@gmail.com> hunted and pecked: I've done some nice configuration using the group policy, but one thing I can't find, is forcing Windows Classic Search. I've searched high and low, thumbed thru the hierarchy of group policy,

F3=file search?
A couple of weks back one of the MVP 's ( Harry Ohm I think ) suggested downloading Tweak U to change XP's abominable Search to the Classic search as in W2000, I followed the instructions and it worked fine. I passed this information on to my son,who has a new SONY laptop with XP . He downloaded TweakU Ok but

my search window
After it has opened, click on: Explorer in the left pane, and scroll down the right pane until you reach the option: Use Classic Search in Explorer. Click the Box to the left of it, This utility has many useful options/tweaks, including replacing the Internet Explorer Search for Classic Search as well.

How do you get the CLASSIC Windows Search menu back?
Tim...what's odd about this..is that its not universal on all machines..one should be able to get the same effect without the use of Tweak forcing the Classic search....possibly Tweak does a better job or that specific reg key nullifying 'search companion' is more prone to corruption or resets due to other external

"Search" function failure
David Candy da...@mvps.org alt comp freeware alt comp hardware pc-homebuilt microsoft public windowsxp general 95/98/NT4 had a more classic than classic search extension. It was dialog based rather than Explorer Bar based. What XP calls classic is the 2000/ME style.

traderonline.com's new search sucks
Honjo kho...@mindspring.com microsoft public windowsxp general I changed the user interface in the left pane of Explorer search window to W2K style interface by turning on "Use Classic Search in Explorer" option using TweakUI. My problem since then is search operation fails to locate any directory or file located

Classic search great but can we have it not go through ...
Also, a 98 lookalike search facility would not go amiss either. If you want Search to have the "Classic" Windows look, you can specify that in TweakUI > Explorer. Check the boxes next to "Use Classic Search in Explorer" and "Use Classic Search in Internet Explorer." If you don't already have TweakUI installed,

tabbing to certain cells
Getting the classic search back has been great; thanks for the help in another thread re this. One of the big steps backward for me from Win2K onwards is how the search function has to go through Explorer. I really need to get the search to come up as a secondary function yet taking the folder that we start the

Cannot install "Classic" search
Deja has also added two parts to their Classic search that heaven only knows what that's all about because it does not set any defaults and is ignored. Anyway ignore the top part that was just added, and use: . DejaNews Power Search: Recommend using a bookmark: http://www.deja.com/=dnc/home_ps.shtml Search

"Classic Search"?
<G> Just go into Search Companion, Internet search, change it to Classic, then Customize it to make Google your preferred search from the Address bar. If the URLs for customizing the Classic search aren't working then something more serious is wrong. In that case you could try using the Internet Properties,

XP upgrade
You can stop the internet access by changing the search behavior to Classic Search. Either use TweakUI, Explorer section to set Classic Search: http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/pro/downloads/powertoys.asp Or you can make the change manually. Click Start, Run and enter REGEDIT.

Thanks Kelly
Alan -- Alan Edwards, MS MVP Windows - Internet Explorer http://dts-l.com/index.htm On 14 Feb 2008 20:24:09 GMT, in microsoft.public.windowsxp.help_and_support, aus...@hotmail.com (Eugen Austermann) wrote: When I start the classic search tool with a file pattern then the search investigates the content of *.zip and

Search??!!
If you are using Search Companion click on Change Preferences and Change Internet Behaviour Then click on Classic Internet search. Close all IE windows then open a new one (eg About:Blank). Press Ctrl-e again. Now you will be able to click on Customize, then AutoSearch settings. (I'm suggesting this because it is

Search Companion
I have tried in the past to get rid of my classic search companion. I read other posts and still found no help with it. Any ideas about how to 1.) reinstall something that would fix that or 2.) any program I could download to fix it. I tried the tweakUI and still didnt work. thanks does this apply to you ?

cannot open TWEAKU
Thorsten Matzner tmatz...@gmx.net microsoft public windowsxp customize "SusanD" <anonym...@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote: Suddenly, my search companion feature is switching back to classic internet search. I click start, search, change preferences...and get it back to "with search companion", Check the settings