Don't know why latelly i've been wanting to solve every problem my pc has...so here's one of them :

When i go to start and then to Search i get this error message :

"It's not possible to find a necessary file to execute 'search assistant'. You may need to execute the configuration program...

Now i'm really needing the search assistant cause i need to find a file...can anybody help me please?

if you have windows XP to get the search working try running these commands:
regsvr32 wshom.ocx
regsvr32 jscript.dll
regsvr32 urlmon.dll

and after you run these commands restart the computer and see if it helped

Edit: i'm not sure this will help you though hopefully it will.


Edit 2: here is a site with some info that might help you

http://www.ntcompatible.com/thread29555-1.html

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Originally posted by johny
Don't know why latelly i've been wanting to solve every problem my pc has...so here's one of them :

When i go to start and then to Search i get this error message :

"It's not possible to find a necessary file to execute 'search assistant'. You may need to execute the configuration program...

Now i'm really needing the search assistant cause i need to find a file...can anybody help me please?

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None of the solutions above gave results but I got one on the link that Joa gave

here's how to do it if someone is having these problems too :

1) Start > Run > regedit

2) Go through this path : HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\Curre ntVersion\Explorer\CabinetState

3) Click Edit > New > String Value

4) Rename the new string to : use search asst

5) Double Click the "use search asst" key and type "no" on the Value Field

Screen Shot how it should be :


6) Close the registry

This Solution was provided by spazz_tikk in this thread

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Originally posted by johny
It was like that before i messed up with them but i didnt fuck them up...

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