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Windows Explorer Search Not Working

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Coffier

Technical User
Sep 21, 2001
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US
When I click the Search button in Windows Explorer on a Windows 2000 SP4 machine, the left panel appears gray, if there weren't any other toolbar buttons pressed previously (i.e. Folders). If there was a previous button pressed (i.e. Folders followed by Search), the Folders window appears. to the last toolbar button. How do I get the Search button to work for searches again?
 
Never mind. I just solved the problem!!

I went to a DOS command prompt and typed:

rundll \WINNT\System32\shell32.dll DllInstall

and it restored the left search panel in Windows Explorer so that it worked normally.

 
Last thread amended:

The command used was

rundll32 \WINNT\System32\shell32.dll DllInstall
 
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