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From: Ewa on 12 Jun 2010 05:39 Hi, I have a question to those of you who had the below problem and managed to solve it. I am not asking for theoretical solutions. I am asking for practical solutions only which you successfully used. I installed the MS Windows XP Home SP2 on a new disk. After the installation some applications were installed. Then I realised that the Search doesn't work. I get the following error: "A file that is required to run Search Companion cannot be found. You may need to run setup". I would be very grateful if you could help me. Regards Ewa
From: Ewa on 15 Jun 2010 10:46
Thank you for your answer. >> >> I have a question to those of you who had the below problem >> >> and managed to solve it. I am not asking for theoretical >> >> solutions. I am asking for practical solutions only which >> >> you successfully used. >> >> >> I installed the MS Windows XP Home SP2 on a new disk. >> >> After the installation some applications were installed. >> >> Then I realised that the Search doesn't work. >> >> I get the following error: >> >> "A file that is required to run Search Companion cannot be found. >> >> You may need to run setup". [...] > Usually, that kind of problem lies somewhere in or about this folder: > > C:\windows\srchasst\mui\0409 > > Either it is not there at all, or something is missing from it. Do > you have this folder? Mine has 30 files in it. The folder is there and is contains 30 files. The only difference is that the subfolder is named 0415 but it is correct as we use Polish version of Win XP. > After that message does a useless open window appear? When the Search is called from Windows Explorer, on the left side there is a small dog sitting, not searching, and on the right side there is a widows with all subfolders and files existing in the folder from which the serach was called. When the Search is called from Start -> Search, on the left side there is the dog, on the right side there is an empty (white) window. > When you attempted to reinstall Search Assistant using the > srchasst.inf, what happened? It looks for msgr3en.dll file and asks for a CD with the system. Then it copies the file (from /i386 subforlder on CD) and everything seems to be OK as no message is displayed. However when we try to use Search it results with the same error: "A file that is required to run Search Companion cannot be found. You may need to run setup". It also happens after restarting the system. Regards Ewa |