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Posted by Winsaurus on August 6, 2006, 6:53 pm
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Hi again!
Thanks to all for your time, however the problem continues. I follow
Jeff's proccedures in his 8/2/06 note, but every combination that I made was
useless. I installed the latest WDS and MSN Search Toolbar, and then their
respective MUI for Spanish. Not good. Then I tried to install the localized
versions (the ones that are already on Spanish without the need of the MUI
pack), anyway, it didn't work. Later I tried the same steps on three other
computers; a Dell Inspiron 600m, a Toshiba Satellite P15-S409 and once again
the Compaq Presario 5726. To my surprise it worked perfectly, even if their
"location" on the "Regional Options" section was not Spanish. The same I
tried for the English version, but having a Spanish country on the "location"
section.
Another thing I notice is that in the Presario, WDS's indexing feature
allowed me to find files seconds after it started, but in the Inspiron 8200
the result is always 0. In fact, as its index grew the files that were left
increased in large proportions after a sudden pause (no matter if the
prioritize option was selected). Strangely, the Presario is 500 Mhz with 384
MB of RAM, in comparison with a Inspiron 8200 with 1.7 Ghz and 1 GB of RAM.
As the Presario, the Toshiba and the 600m didn't showed any problems at all.
Also, I tried Franz suggestions, but the cc_pkg file doesn't give me any
information. It only shows a black screen with "Program too big to fit in
memory" both on the I8200 and the Presario. I also tried the Component
Checker Version 2.0 and it gives an UNKNOWN revision of both my I8200 and the
Presario. So I don't know if it is the MDAC issue. Once again, thanks for
your time and please keep the ideas coming!
Here are some specs:
DELL INSPIRON 8200:
OS: Windows Xp Home Ed with SP2 (Spanish and with latest updates)
RAM: 1 GB
PROCESSOR: Intel Pentium 4 Mobile at 1.7 GHz
HARD DRIVES: 30 GB (disk 1) and 60 GB (disk 2)
SECURITY PROGRAMS: McAfee Internet Security 7.0, SpywareBlaster, Windows
Defender, Lavasoft Adware Free, System Mechanic 6.
EMAIL: Microsoft Outlook 2003 (latest updates)
TOSHIBA SATELLITE P15-S409
OS: Windows Xp Home Ed with SP2 (English and with latest updates)
RAM: 512 MB
PROCESSOR: Intel Pentium 4 HT at 2.8 GHz
HARD DRIVES: 60 GB
SECURITY PROGRAMS: Avast! Antivirus, SpywareBlaster, Windows Defender,
Lavasoft Adware Free, Zone Alarm firewall free.
EMAIL: Microsoft Outlook 2002 (latest updates)
DELL INSPIRON 600m:
OS: Windows Xp Home Ed with SP2 (English and with latest updates)
RAM: 512 MB
PROCESSOR: Intel Centrino 1.6 Ghz
HARD DRIVES: 30 GB (disk 1) and 60 GB (disk 2)
SECURITY PROGRAMS: Avast! Antivirus, Windows Defender, Lavasoft Adware
Free, Comodo Personal Firewall.
COMPAQ PRESARIO 5726:
OS: Windows Xp Home Ed with SP2 (English and with latest updates)
RAM: 384 MB
HARD DRIVES: 20 GB (disk 1) and 80 GB (disk 2)
SECURITY PROGRAMS: Avast! Antivirus, SpywareBlaster, Windows Defender,
Lavasoft Adware Free, System Mechanic 6, Comodo Personal Firewall.
EMAIL: Microsoft Outlook 2003 (latest updates)
LATEST VERSIONS TRIED:
Windows Desktop Search ESN MUI: (WindowsDesktopSearch-kb911993-V2-x86-ESN)
Windows Desktop Tool: 02.06.5000.5378
Windows Desktop Search: 02.06.5000.5378
MSN Search Toolbar ES: (MsnSearchToolbarSetup_es.exe)
MSN Search Toolbar Outlook: 02.06.0000.2057
MSN Search Toolbar: 02.06.0000.2057
Web Page:
http://www.microsoft.com/windows/desktopsearch/downloads/default.mspx
Well, once again thanks for your support. Any ideas are welcome!
"Jeff R." wrote:
> Wow.. that's wierd.
>
> The up-side is that you seem to have everything working :) I would never
> have guessed MDAC...
>
> Good post and thanks for posting the fix!
>
> Jeff
>
> > Hello
> >
> > WDS didn't work on my system since ever, always "0 results" regardless the
> > search string. Had then suspected a MDAC Error and the Microsoft Component
> > Checker
> > (http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=8f0a8df6-4a21-4b43-bf53-14332ef092c9&DisplayLang=en)
> > told me that "MDAC 2.7 SP1 on Windows XP SP1" is installed on my system,
> > but I have Windows XP SP2.
> >
> > Have then reinstalled Windows XP SP2. To my surprise, I hadn't to reapply
> > all the security patches again that are released after XP SP2. And after
> > the reboot WDS started to work immediately! The MS component checker also
> > told me now that "MDAC 2.8 SP1 on Windows XP SP2" is installed.
> >
> > Franz
> >
> >> Here's what gets me about this. You have two systems that can run the
> >> same OS and the same application and one works the other doesn't. In
> >> this scenario, I have a hard time pointing my finger at the app+OS
> >> combination... I'm more inclined to believe it has something to do with
> >> the laptop. Meaning a driver, anti-virus or other environment specific
> >> device or software that's stopping this from working properly.
> >>
> >> Standard troubleshooting would dictate updating to latest SP for the OS
> >> and the latest version of WDS 2.6.5 (3.0 is beta, don't go there while
> >> testing!).
> >>
> >> The other thing to consider is getting the MUI for Windows and WDS.
> >> Install the Windows Spanish MUI, install latest version of WDS, then
> >> install the WDS MUI. Due to localization issues it is possible that WDS
> >> calls objects by the english name and the app uses the international
> >> (localized) name, they don't mesh and no items are returned in search.
> >> If your OS and WDS are both set to the same language through MUI or
> >> installing the spanish version of both (and same language version of
> >> Outlook) you may see better results.
> >>
> >> Let me know how things progress, I look forward to hearing from you.
> >>
> >> Best regards,
> >>
> >> Jeff
> >>
> >>> Hi Jeff,
> >>>
> >>> Thanks for your help. Yes, I have used the English and Spanish version
> >>> in
> >>> my Compaq Presario to see if it was a language-related problem, but both
> >>> versions work perfectly under Windows XP in English. Now, when I tried
> >>> under
> >>> the Windows Xp (Spanish) on my laptop the WDS function on MSN Search
> >>> Toolbar
> >>> or in Windows Live Toolbar doesn't find anything in either the Spanish
> >>> or
> >>> English versions of the utility. (Indexing would not help either). To
> >>> add
> >>> that not even the Anti-phising filter addin for MSN Seach Toolbar
> >>> doesn't
> >>> work either (the icon is missing in the toolbar, no matter the options
> >>> in
> >>> MSN). So, perhaps the WDS needs some refirements on a Windows XP in
> >>> Spanish
> >>> enviroment; since under my Compaq everything works fine. Again, thanks
> >>> for
> >>> your interest and help.
> >>>
> >>> "Jeff R." wrote:
> >>>
> >>>>
> >>>> You have the english version of WDS on a Spanish version of windows??
> >>>>
> >>>> > Hi!
> >>>> >
> >>>> > I have tried many versions -from MSN Search Toolbar with Windows
> >>>> > Desktop
> >>>> > Search and even the latest Windows Live Toolbar- and to my surprise
> >>>> > neither
> >>>> > of them find anything when I make a desktop search. I have installed,
> >>>> > re-installed and re-indexed many times with no success. I am using a
> >>>> > Dell
> >>>> > Inspiron 8200, Windows Xp SP2 in spanish with 768 MB, a P4 processor
> >>>> > and a
> >>>> > 30
> >>>> > GB disk, so I don't think is a matter of performance. Strangely, I
> >>>> > use the
> >>>> > English version of MSN Search Toolbar with WDS in a 500 Mhz Compaq
> >>>> > Presario
> >>>> > and it finds everything without any problem. I don't think it is
> >>>> > something
> >>>> > about the language, since I have used both (English and Spanish)
> >>>> > versions
> >>>> > in
> >>>> > my Inspiron and nothing works.
> >>>> > This is really an annoying problem that I thought it will be repair
> >>>> > by
> >>>> > now, but for some reason WDS always fails to find any file. In fact,
> >>>> > after
> >>>> > indexing and query for a search it gives me "Windows Desktop Search
> >>>> > couldn't
> >>>> > find the file..." Now, any suggestion will be grateful. Thanks for
> >>>> > your
> >>>> > time.
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>
> >>
> >
> >
>
>
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