Windows Search 4.0 - no Search toolbar visible on Taskbar?

OS: Dell OEM Vista Home Premium (updated to SP1)



I installed Windows Search 4.0 through Windows Update yesterday and
after reboot I don't see any visible difference. I read from many
reviews that there is a Search toolbar in the Taskbar after installing
(and there is one on my Windows XP machines), so has my Windows Search
installation failed? I tried using the offline installer and it said I
didn't need to update.

Thanks

Click on the Vista start button and in the "Start Search" box
type in what you are searching for.

--
Carey Frisch
Microsoft MVP
Windows Desktop Experience -
Windows System & Performance




"Mesquire" wrote:

> OS: Dell OEM Vista Home Premium (updated to SP1)
>
>
>
> I installed Windows Search 4.0 through Windows Update yesterday and
> after reboot I don't see any visible difference. I read from many
> reviews that there is a Search toolbar in the Taskbar after installing
> (and there is one on my Windows XP machines), so has my Windows Search
> installation failed? I tried using the offline installer and it said I
> didn't need to update.
>
> Thanks
>
>

Oh! Didn't realize it was a direct replacement - thought I was getting a
new toolbar just like with Windows XP



"Carey Frisch [MVP]" <> wrote in message
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: Click on the Vista start button and in the "Start Search" box
: type in what you are searching for.
:
: --
: Carey Frisch
: Microsoft MVP
: Windows Desktop Experience -
: Windows System & Performance
:
:
:
:
: "Mesquire" wrote:
:
: > OS: Dell OEM Vista Home Premium (updated to SP1)
: >
: >
: >
: > I installed Windows Search 4.0 through Windows Update yesterday and
: > after reboot I don't see any visible difference. I read from many
: > reviews that there is a Search toolbar in the Taskbar after
installing
: > (and there is one on my Windows XP machines), so has my Windows
Search
: > installation failed? I tried using the offline installer and it
said I
: > didn't need to update.
: >
: > Thanks
: >
: >

Feel lucky, my daughters machine won't even boot after that update.
Not to safe mode, not with last known good config.
I haven't had time to mess with it yet, but that really aggravates me.
If I wanted that, I would have asked for it.
For MS to throw it in and put it as a prioroty update sucks.
If people were even semi-organized, they wouldn't need that crap built into
the OS to mess things up!

"Mesquire" <=NOSPAM=@mesquire.com> wrote in message
news:...
> OS: Dell OEM Vista Home Premium (updated to SP1)
>
>
>
> I installed Windows Search 4.0 through Windows Update yesterday and after
> reboot I don't see any visible difference. I read from many reviews that
> there is a Search toolbar in the Taskbar after installing (and there is
> one on my Windows XP machines), so has my Windows Search installation
> failed? I tried using the offline installer and it said I didn't need to
> update.
>
> Thanks

Fellow

I gave my mom a brand new desktop with Vista Home Premium with SP1 an
recently downloaded Desktop Search 4.0. Great? no so much..

She is a 65 yo lady and she is missing the search toolbar in taskba
and she simply won't "upgrade" herself for the new "start" menu and
had to bring it back to the "classic" style.

I found here and in many other forums that a similar functionality i
found on the new Start Menu and nowhere else

Now she is complaining about "how can I look for my recipes...". It ma
sound funny for you, but it is not. I simply cannot believe tha
microsoft could not put a single option button for abling or not
search toolbar in task bar just like the old XP

They spent millions for something completelly useless like the ne
flying 3D on AERO interface just because "it's cool" and can't put
single desktop search in task bar that would help for something that
call "backward compatibility" of the users..

It may sound nonsense, but unless I get this solved, it will be mor
easy to me to completely format the machine and install the old XP her
instead of teaching her how to use the new VISTA

Best Regard

José Armando Port

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jama
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Seems that I'll have to downgrade to old XP.


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jamap
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On Jul 24, 3:06*am, "Mesquire" <=NOSP...@mesquire.com> wrote:
> OS: Dell OEM Vista Home Premium (updated to SP1)
>
> I installed Windows Search 4.0 through Windows Update yesterday and
> after reboot I don't see any visible difference. *I read from many
> reviews that there is a Search toolbar in the Taskbar after installing
> (and there is one on my Windows XP machines), so has my Windows Search
> installation failed? *I tried using the offline installer and it said I
> didn't need to update.
>
> Thanks

My toolbar was still there but giving errors. (Windows 2003)
After having used the START/SEARCH it works again.
But i think that'might be just the old one (The screens have different
layouts)

I can't seem to find ant indication of version numbers for it in the
interface.