RazerSauber Posted July 29, 2008 Share Posted July 29, 2008 I'm having a little problem with Vista at the moment. Up until a few days ago everything was fine and dandy. But all of a sudden my search features dont work at all. The start search says "Search failed to initialize" and the search in Explorer is about as much use as a cream slice too. When I click search or return nothing happens. It just doesnt respond. (By this I mean the window is functional but i could hit enter a million times and nothing happens) I have searched the MS KB and followed a few different methods of getting it to work again but none of them have had any effect at all. Any help on this would be incredibly appreciated because I use the Start search feature a lot. Thanks, RS. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MRGRIM Posted July 29, 2008 Share Posted July 29, 2008 Boot off your Vista disk and try and repair Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RazerSauber Posted July 29, 2008 Author Share Posted July 29, 2008 I dont have a Vista disk, only one of those useless restore disks that formats my drive apart from Vista and re-installs missing bits. Thats not something I particularly want to do.. Any other options? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
digip Posted July 29, 2008 Share Posted July 29, 2008 Did you download, install or disable any services recently? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RazerSauber Posted July 29, 2008 Author Share Posted July 29, 2008 I didnt do anything at all to change my system. I just clicked start typed it in and the problem was there. System restore doesnt work either, errors are found. Will do a disk check over night and post results. thnaks for the help, any other ideas are welcome! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bme2008 Posted July 31, 2008 Share Posted July 31, 2008 i have exactly the same problem - started a few days ago - only thing ive found is create a new account and search will work (on the new account that is) gosh i hate vista (and M$)! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RazerSauber Posted July 31, 2008 Author Share Posted July 31, 2008 New problems have arisen! after doing a disk check Vista now bluescreens and wont boot at all... Any idea where to fix this? Guy in PC world said something about a recovery console and blah nlah nlah but I'm not sure what I'm doing. Cant boot in safe mode, have no other Sata enabled PC and no funding to buy a convertor usb doodah. Anybody know where i could get a boot disk for Vista? off to search google now.. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sparda Posted July 31, 2008 Share Posted July 31, 2008 The hard drive has bad sectors may be? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bme2008 Posted August 5, 2008 Share Posted August 5, 2008 http://forums.microsoft.com/TechNet/ShowPo...1&SiteID=17 instructions for creating vista recovery disc Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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