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kelleyz3

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Since: Dec 27, 2004
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(Msg. 1) Posted: Mon Dec 27, 2004 11:57 am
Post subject: can't search for files
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Something has happened to my file search capability. When I go to start,
search, the files and folders all I get is the silly little animal (helper)
with a line above it. I can't type anything to search for on the line...
How do I fix this? Any idea what happened?

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Will Denny

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Since: Feb 21, 2004
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(Msg. 2) Posted: Mon Dec 27, 2004 4:35 pm
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Hi

Please try the following link to Kelly's web site:

"Why doesn't Search work?"
<a rel="nofollow" style='text-decoration: none;' href="http://www.kellys-korner-xp.com/top10faqs.htm" target="_blank">http://www.kellys-korner-xp.com/top10faqs.htm</a>

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"kelleyz3" wrote in message

 > Something has happened to my file search capability. When I go to start,
 > search, the files and folders all I get is the silly little animal
 > (helper)
 > with a line above it. I can't type anything to search for on the line...
 > How do I fix this? Any idea what happened?
 >

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