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Problems with Desktop Search program David Patrick 05-17-2005
|--> RE: Problems with Desktop Search program LordDaManøº+t6Œjwb±Ë¬²*'²hœ®‹(05-17-2005
Posted by David Patrick on May 17, 2005, 8:28 am
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I have installed and uninstalled this 3 times now and everytime under
options, I get the following error "Windows Desktop Search could not be
started, please remove and then reinstal the MSN search Toolbar and all of
the options are greyed out and unavailable

Can someone help me fix this maybe in the registry or something

thanks All


Posted by LordDaManøº+t6Œjwb±Ë¬²*'²hœ®‹( on May 17, 2005, 11:15 am
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I have the same exact problem.

I mnagaed to find a partial workaround for it

Downlaod windows enbaler
http://www.angelfire.com/falcon/speedload/index.html

That allows you to click on greyed out controls. Just use that to clik on
the advanced options. You can't use that to enter text (where it says about
wht files to preview and what ones to treat as text), however it works for
all the other options like changing what it searchs.

Look like this is a common bug, I hope a real soultion or a fix get posted
soon

"David Patrick" wrote:

> I have installed and uninstalled this 3 times now and everytime under
> options, I get the following error "Windows Desktop Search could not be
> started, please remove and then reinstal the MSN search Toolbar and all of
> the options are greyed out and unavailable
>
> Can someone help me fix this maybe in the registry or something
>
> thanks All


Posted by Ian Easson on May 18, 2005, 11:25 am
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I have had this same problem on the 2nd PC I tried to install it on.
Numerous uninstalls and reinstalls don't help. There must be an
incompatibility with an already installed program. I have removed several
programs so far, with no results.

It's very disappointing when a program like this won't even install. I had
no problems with the beta version.

"David Patrick" wrote:

> I have installed and uninstalled this 3 times now and everytime under
> options, I get the following error "Windows Desktop Search could not be
> started, please remove and then reinstal the MSN search Toolbar and all of
> the options are greyed out and unavailable
>
> Can someone help me fix this maybe in the registry or something
>
> thanks All


Posted by SonnyJim66 on May 23, 2005, 11:31 am
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I'm having the same problem. I'm running Windows 2003 Server and the Beta
ran fine, but I've installed this latest release a number of times now and
I'm seeing the same message.

What is weird though is that I seem to be able to search OK. I'm just not
able to make any changes to the way the indexing is configured.

"David Patrick" wrote:

> I have installed and uninstalled this 3 times now and everytime under
> options, I get the following error "Windows Desktop Search could not be
> started, please remove and then reinstal the MSN search Toolbar and all of
> the options are greyed out and unavailable
>
> Can someone help me fix this maybe in the registry or something
>
> thanks All


Posted by dg on May 28, 2005, 3:47 pm
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Me three (or four, or whatever) ...same problem here...beta version
worked fine, but v2.01...says it can't start the desktop search...that
I should uninstall and reinstall (which I did 3 times)...and the
advanced options are all greyed out.

Frustrating!
--
DG
- "Keep an open mind, not a blank one."



On 23 May 2005, "=?Utf-8?B?U29ubnlKaW02Ng==?="

> I'm having the same problem. I'm running Windows 2003 Server and
> the Beta ran fine, but I've installed this latest release a number
> of times now and I'm seeing the same message.
>
> What is weird though is that I seem to be able to search OK. I'm
> just not able to make any changes to the way the indexing is
> configured.
>
> "David Patrick" wrote:
>
>> I have installed and uninstalled this 3 times now and everytime
>> under options, I get the following error "Windows Desktop Search
>> could not be started, please remove and then reinstal the MSN
>> search Toolbar and all of the options are greyed out and
>> unavailable
>>
>> Can someone help me fix this maybe in the registry or something
>>
>> thanks All
>


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