Search Enhancement Folder - Mr. Jonathan Kay

Hello there Mr. Jonathan Kay...I have a question for you specifically. I
helped someone download Windows Live Messenger 2009 (updating their 2008
installation) with no other live services selected besides Messenger. It
seemed to work fine except they had the "Search Enhancement Folder" open
inside an explorer window everytime they started their computer or used fast
user switching to switch users. I google searched it, and found a reply by
you to someone in the vista forums which said the following:

"Greetings,

Weird -- the Search Enhancement Pack is part of the Live toolbar, not
Messenger.

You can try removing the Pack itself by click Start, then Run, entering the
following:
msiexec /x {299CF645-48C7-4FA1-8BCD-5CE200CF180D}
and clicking OK.

--
Jonathan Kay
Microsoft MVP - Windows Live Messenger
MSN Messenger/Windows Messenger
MessengerGeek Blog: http://www.messengergeek.com
Messenger Resources: http://messenger.jonathankay.com
(c) 2008 Jonathan Kay - If redistributing, you must include this signature
or citation
--"

I copied your above line, and put it in the run command, but I only got the
"can not uninstall a program that's not installed" message (I forgot the
exact wording). After restarting, the problem persisted. What exactly is
that line above supposed to do?

I was finally able to get it from coming up....I uninstalled the windows
live upload tool, and sign-in assistant, and deleted the search enhancement
folder from the registry and from right clicking on start and exploring all
users and that fixed it.

Oh, yeah, forgot to mention...the person's computer has Windows XP SP3 on it.

And, it didn't happen when I installed WLM 2009 on my laptop that also has
Windows XP SP3.





"thebigdintexas" wrote:

> Hello there Mr. Jonathan Kay...I have a question for you specifically. I
> helped someone download Windows Live Messenger 2009 (updating their 2008
> installation) with no other live services selected besides Messenger. It
> seemed to work fine except they had the "Search Enhancement Folder" open
> inside an explorer window everytime they started their computer or used fast
> user switching to switch users. I google searched it, and found a reply by
> you to someone in the vista forums which said the following:
>
> "Greetings,
>
> Weird -- the Search Enhancement Pack is part of the Live toolbar, not
> Messenger.
>
> You can try removing the Pack itself by click Start, then Run, entering the
> following:
> msiexec /x {299CF645-48C7-4FA1-8BCD-5CE200CF180D}
> and clicking OK.
>
> --
> Jonathan Kay
> Microsoft MVP - Windows Live Messenger
> MSN Messenger/Windows Messenger
> MessengerGeek Blog: http://www.messengergeek.com
> Messenger Resources: http://messenger.jonathankay.com
> (c) 2008 Jonathan Kay - If redistributing, you must include this signature
> or citation
> --"
>
> I copied your above line, and put it in the run command, but I only got the
> "can not uninstall a program that's not installed" message (I forgot the
> exact wording). After restarting, the problem persisted. What exactly is
> that line above supposed to do?
>
> I was finally able to get it from coming up....I uninstalled the windows
> live upload tool, and sign-in assistant, and deleted the search enhancement
> folder from the registry and from right clicking on start and exploring all
> users and that fixed it.

Greetings,

It just removes the search enhancement pack, but if it's not installed then it can't
uninstall it.

Where exactly is this folder located on the hard drive anyway?

--
Jonathan Kay
Microsoft MVP - Windows Live Messenger
MSN Messenger/Windows Messenger
MessengerGeek Blog: http://www.messengergeek.com
Messenger Resources: http://messenger.jonathankay.com
(c) 2009 Jonathan Kay - If redistributing, you must include this signature or citation
--

"thebigdintexas" <> wrote in message
news:A4A617B0-E6EB-4F4B-8CE9-...
> Hello there Mr. Jonathan Kay...I have a question for you specifically. I
> helped someone download Windows Live Messenger 2009 (updating their 2008
> installation) with no other live services selected besides Messenger. It
> seemed to work fine except they had the "Search Enhancement Folder" open
> inside an explorer window everytime they started their computer or used fast
> user switching to switch users. I google searched it, and found a reply by
> you to someone in the vista forums which said the following:
>
> "Greetings,
>
> Weird -- the Search Enhancement Pack is part of the Live toolbar, not
> Messenger.
>
> You can try removing the Pack itself by click Start, then Run, entering the
> following:
> msiexec /x {299CF645-48C7-4FA1-8BCD-5CE200CF180D}
> and clicking OK.
>
> --
> Jonathan Kay
> Microsoft MVP - Windows Live Messenger
> MSN Messenger/Windows Messenger
> MessengerGeek Blog: http://www.messengergeek.com
> Messenger Resources: http://messenger.jonathankay.com
> (c) 2008 Jonathan Kay - If redistributing, you must include this signature
> or citation
> --"
>
> I copied your above line, and put it in the run command, but I only got the
> "can not uninstall a program that's not installed" message (I forgot the
> exact wording). After restarting, the problem persisted. What exactly is
> that line above supposed to do?
>
> I was finally able to get it from coming up....I uninstalled the windows
> live upload tool, and sign-in assistant, and deleted the search enhancement
> folder from the registry and from right clicking on start and exploring all
> users and that fixed it.

I think I just found it under "programs" - "microsoft" if I remember correctly.



"Jonathan Kay [MVP]" wrote:

> Greetings,
>
> It just removes the search enhancement pack, but if it's not installed then it can't
> uninstall it.
>
> Where exactly is this folder located on the hard drive anyway?
>
> --
> Jonathan Kay
> Microsoft MVP - Windows Live Messenger
> MSN Messenger/Windows Messenger
> MessengerGeek Blog: http://www.messengergeek.com
> Messenger Resources: http://messenger.jonathankay.com
> (c) 2009 Jonathan Kay - If redistributing, you must include this signature or citation
> --
>
> "thebigdintexas" <> wrote in message
> news:A4A617B0-E6EB-4F4B-8CE9-...
> > Hello there Mr. Jonathan Kay...I have a question for you specifically. I
> > helped someone download Windows Live Messenger 2009 (updating their 2008
> > installation) with no other live services selected besides Messenger. It
> > seemed to work fine except they had the "Search Enhancement Folder" open
> > inside an explorer window everytime they started their computer or used fast
> > user switching to switch users. I google searched it, and found a reply by
> > you to someone in the vista forums which said the following:
> >
> > "Greetings,
> >
> > Weird -- the Search Enhancement Pack is part of the Live toolbar, not
> > Messenger.
> >
> > You can try removing the Pack itself by click Start, then Run, entering the
> > following:
> > msiexec /x {299CF645-48C7-4FA1-8BCD-5CE200CF180D}
> > and clicking OK.
> >
> > --
> > Jonathan Kay
> > Microsoft MVP - Windows Live Messenger
> > MSN Messenger/Windows Messenger
> > MessengerGeek Blog: http://www.messengergeek.com
> > Messenger Resources: http://messenger.jonathankay.com
> > (c) 2008 Jonathan Kay - If redistributing, you must include this signature
> > or citation
> > --"
> >
> > I copied your above line, and put it in the run command, but I only got the
> > "can not uninstall a program that's not installed" message (I forgot the
> > exact wording). After restarting, the problem persisted. What exactly is
> > that line above supposed to do?
> >
> > I was finally able to get it from coming up....I uninstalled the windows
> > live upload tool, and sign-in assistant, and deleted the search enhancement
> > folder from the registry and from right clicking on start and exploring all
> > users and that fixed it.
>
>
>

Hi,

Yep that's where that would be if it were installed. As a test, why not rename the folder
from Search Enhancement to something else and then see if there's any whining at startup
after that. If not, go ahead and delete the folder.

--
Jonathan Kay
Microsoft MVP - Windows Live Messenger
MSN Messenger/Windows Messenger
MessengerGeek Blog: http://www.messengergeek.com
Messenger Resources: http://messenger.jonathankay.com
(c) 2009 Jonathan Kay - If redistributing, you must include this signature or citation
--



"thebigdintexas" <> wrote in message
news:071287DF-D544-48BC-8E79-...
> I think I just found it under "programs" - "microsoft" if I remember correctly.
>
>
>
> "Jonathan Kay [MVP]" wrote:
>
>> Greetings,
>>
>> It just removes the search enhancement pack, but if it's not installed then it can't
>> uninstall it.
>>
>> Where exactly is this folder located on the hard drive anyway?
>>
>> --
>> Jonathan Kay
>> Microsoft MVP - Windows Live Messenger
>> MSN Messenger/Windows Messenger
>> MessengerGeek Blog: http://www.messengergeek.com
>> Messenger Resources: http://messenger.jonathankay.com
>> (c) 2009 Jonathan Kay - If redistributing, you must include this signature or citation
>> --
>>
>> "thebigdintexas" <> wrote in message
>> news:A4A617B0-E6EB-4F4B-8CE9-...
>> > Hello there Mr. Jonathan Kay...I have a question for you specifically. I
>> > helped someone download Windows Live Messenger 2009 (updating their 2008
>> > installation) with no other live services selected besides Messenger. It
>> > seemed to work fine except they had the "Search Enhancement Folder" open
>> > inside an explorer window everytime they started their computer or used fast
>> > user switching to switch users. I google searched it, and found a reply by
>> > you to someone in the vista forums which said the following:
>> >
>> > "Greetings,
>> >
>> > Weird -- the Search Enhancement Pack is part of the Live toolbar, not
>> > Messenger.
>> >
>> > You can try removing the Pack itself by click Start, then Run, entering the
>> > following:
>> > msiexec /x {299CF645-48C7-4FA1-8BCD-5CE200CF180D}
>> > and clicking OK.
>> >
>> > --
>> > Jonathan Kay
>> > Microsoft MVP - Windows Live Messenger
>> > MSN Messenger/Windows Messenger
>> > MessengerGeek Blog: http://www.messengergeek.com
>> > Messenger Resources: http://messenger.jonathankay.com
>> > (c) 2008 Jonathan Kay - If redistributing, you must include this signature
>> > or citation
>> > --"
>> >
>> > I copied your above line, and put it in the run command, but I only got the
>> > "can not uninstall a program that's not installed" message (I forgot the
>> > exact wording). After restarting, the problem persisted. What exactly is
>> > that line above supposed to do?
>> >
>> > I was finally able to get it from coming up....I uninstalled the windows
>> > live upload tool, and sign-in assistant, and deleted the search enhancement
>> > folder from the registry and from right clicking on start and exploring all
>> > users and that fixed it.
>>
>>
>>

Sorry...as I mentioned towards the bottom of my first post in this thread, I
already deleted it all off the computer.




"Jonathan Kay [MVP]" wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Yep that's where that would be if it were installed. As a test, why not rename the folder
> from Search Enhancement to something else and then see if there's any whining at startup
> after that. If not, go ahead and delete the folder.
>
> --
> Jonathan Kay
> Microsoft MVP - Windows Live Messenger
> MSN Messenger/Windows Messenger
> MessengerGeek Blog: http://www.messengergeek.com
> Messenger Resources: http://messenger.jonathankay.com
> (c) 2009 Jonathan Kay - If redistributing, you must include this signature or citation
> --
>
>
>
> "thebigdintexas" <> wrote in message
> news:071287DF-D544-48BC-8E79-...
> > I think I just found it under "programs" - "microsoft" if I remember correctly.
> >
> >
> >
> > "Jonathan Kay [MVP]" wrote:
> >
> >> Greetings,
> >>
> >> It just removes the search enhancement pack, but if it's not installed then it can't
> >> uninstall it.
> >>
> >> Where exactly is this folder located on the hard drive anyway?
> >>
> >> --
> >> Jonathan Kay
> >> Microsoft MVP - Windows Live Messenger
> >> MSN Messenger/Windows Messenger
> >> MessengerGeek Blog: http://www.messengergeek.com
> >> Messenger Resources: http://messenger.jonathankay.com
> >> (c) 2009 Jonathan Kay - If redistributing, you must include this signature or citation
> >> --
> >>
> >> "thebigdintexas" <> wrote in message
> >> news:A4A617B0-E6EB-4F4B-8CE9-...
> >> > Hello there Mr. Jonathan Kay...I have a question for you specifically. I
> >> > helped someone download Windows Live Messenger 2009 (updating their 2008
> >> > installation) with no other live services selected besides Messenger. It
> >> > seemed to work fine except they had the "Search Enhancement Folder" open
> >> > inside an explorer window everytime they started their computer or used fast
> >> > user switching to switch users. I google searched it, and found a reply by
> >> > you to someone in the vista forums which said the following:
> >> >
> >> > "Greetings,
> >> >
> >> > Weird -- the Search Enhancement Pack is part of the Live toolbar, not
> >> > Messenger.
> >> >
> >> > You can try removing the Pack itself by click Start, then Run, entering the
> >> > following:
> >> > msiexec /x {299CF645-48C7-4FA1-8BCD-5CE200CF180D}
> >> > and clicking OK.
> >> >
> >> > --
> >> > Jonathan Kay
> >> > Microsoft MVP - Windows Live Messenger
> >> > MSN Messenger/Windows Messenger
> >> > MessengerGeek Blog: http://www.messengergeek.com
> >> > Messenger Resources: http://messenger.jonathankay.com
> >> > (c) 2008 Jonathan Kay - If redistributing, you must include this signature
> >> > or citation
> >> > --"
> >> >
> >> > I copied your above line, and put it in the run command, but I only got the
> >> > "can not uninstall a program that's not installed" message (I forgot the
> >> > exact wording). After restarting, the problem persisted. What exactly is
> >> > that line above supposed to do?
> >> >
> >> > I was finally able to get it from coming up....I uninstalled the windows
> >> > live upload tool, and sign-in assistant, and deleted the search enhancement
> >> > folder from the registry and from right clicking on start and exploring all
> >> > users and that fixed it.
> >>
> >>
> >>
>
>

Oh, I'm an idiot, sorry. Well, good

It's weird, I've done probably near 100 of these installs and not once has this happened.

--
Jonathan Kay
Microsoft MVP - Windows Live Messenger
MSN Messenger/Windows Messenger
MessengerGeek Blog: http://www.messengergeek.com
Messenger Resources: http://messenger.jonathankay.com
(c) 2009 Jonathan Kay - If redistributing, you must include this signature or citation
--

"thebigdintexas" <> wrote in message
news:C70EDE55-D4C9-4897-ABEB-...
> Sorry...as I mentioned towards the bottom of my first post in this thread, I
> already deleted it all off the computer.
>
>
>
>
> "Jonathan Kay [MVP]" wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> Yep that's where that would be if it were installed. As a test, why not rename the folder
>> from Search Enhancement to something else and then see if there's any whining at startup
>> after that. If not, go ahead and delete the folder.
>>
>> --
>> Jonathan Kay
>> Microsoft MVP - Windows Live Messenger
>> MSN Messenger/Windows Messenger
>> MessengerGeek Blog: http://www.messengergeek.com
>> Messenger Resources: http://messenger.jonathankay.com
>> (c) 2009 Jonathan Kay - If redistributing, you must include this signature or citation
>> --
>>
>>
>>
>> "thebigdintexas" <> wrote in message
>> news:071287DF-D544-48BC-8E79-...
>> > I think I just found it under "programs" - "microsoft" if I remember correctly.
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > "Jonathan Kay [MVP]" wrote:
>> >
>> >> Greetings,
>> >>
>> >> It just removes the search enhancement pack, but if it's not installed then it can't
>> >> uninstall it.
>> >>
>> >> Where exactly is this folder located on the hard drive anyway?
>> >>
>> >> --
>> >> Jonathan Kay
>> >> Microsoft MVP - Windows Live Messenger
>> >> MSN Messenger/Windows Messenger
>> >> MessengerGeek Blog: http://www.messengergeek.com
>> >> Messenger Resources: http://messenger.jonathankay.com
>> >> (c) 2009 Jonathan Kay - If redistributing, you must include this signature or citation
>> >> --
>> >>
>> >> "thebigdintexas" <> wrote in message
>> >> news:A4A617B0-E6EB-4F4B-8CE9-...
>> >> > Hello there Mr. Jonathan Kay...I have a question for you specifically. I
>> >> > helped someone download Windows Live Messenger 2009 (updating their 2008
>> >> > installation) with no other live services selected besides Messenger. It
>> >> > seemed to work fine except they had the "Search Enhancement Folder" open
>> >> > inside an explorer window everytime they started their computer or used fast
>> >> > user switching to switch users. I google searched it, and found a reply by
>> >> > you to someone in the vista forums which said the following:
>> >> >
>> >> > "Greetings,
>> >> >
>> >> > Weird -- the Search Enhancement Pack is part of the Live toolbar, not
>> >> > Messenger.
>> >> >
>> >> > You can try removing the Pack itself by click Start, then Run, entering the
>> >> > following:
>> >> > msiexec /x {299CF645-48C7-4FA1-8BCD-5CE200CF180D}
>> >> > and clicking OK.
>> >> >
>> >> > --
>> >> > Jonathan Kay
>> >> > Microsoft MVP - Windows Live Messenger
>> >> > MSN Messenger/Windows Messenger
>> >> > MessengerGeek Blog: http://www.messengergeek.com
>> >> > Messenger Resources: http://messenger.jonathankay.com
>> >> > (c) 2008 Jonathan Kay - If redistributing, you must include this signature
>> >> > or citation
>> >> > --"
>> >> >
>> >> > I copied your above line, and put it in the run command, but I only got the
>> >> > "can not uninstall a program that's not installed" message (I forgot the
>> >> > exact wording). After restarting, the problem persisted. What exactly is
>> >> > that line above supposed to do?
>> >> >
>> >> > I was finally able to get it from coming up....I uninstalled the windows
>> >> > live upload tool, and sign-in assistant, and deleted the search enhancement
>> >> > folder from the registry and from right clicking on start and exploring all
>> >> > users and that fixed it.
>> >>
>> >>
>> >>
>>
>>

I just did the upgrade yesterday, 3/14/09, and have been struggling with the
same exact issues "thebigdintexas" described. I found quite a few blogs with
ideas on how to fix this issue, but so far non have worked. I'll try
thebigdintexas' suggestion. If I knew of these issues, I never would have
done the "upgrade"!

Scott