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One of the most handy and useful utilities in Windows 7 is its Start menu search box. Unfortunately, sometimes it doesn’t give you correct results. Such a feature, also available in Windows Vista, lets you type a few words in its blank field to give you back a list of files and folders which match what you are looking for. If, for any reason, it doesn’t work properly, here is a couple of solutions for you.
Sometimes, the Start menu Search tends to show only the category headings such as Programs, Control Panel. etc. This issue is well-known at Microsoft. Here are a couple of fixes for you.
- Click Start.
- In the search box (or in the Run…box), type regedit.
- Locate the following key: HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft \Windows\CurrentVersion\ Explorer\ FolderTypes\ {ef87b4cb-f2ce-4785- 8658-4ca6c63e38c6}
- Right-click it and select Delete.
- Exit from Regedit and reboot your computer for the change to take effect.
If you don’t feel self confident to browse among tricky registry files, simply download this hotfix.
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January 21st, 2010 at 8:16 pm
Tried to do this (IE 8, Win 7 Pro), but didn’t have the file “FolderTypes” inside Explorer.
January 22nd, 2010 at 1:49 am
i use this
http://www.voidtools.com/