start/find/find files or folders broken

hi all

im having a curious problem when i got to start/find/find files or folders nothing happens

iv tryed seareching the net and cant seem to work out why at first i though it may be that the find utility was bad but when i hit win+f the find utility pops up quite the thing

whats goin on why cant i start the find utility from the start menu ? keep in mind in runin win 98se

 

have you installed any tweaking program lately.

 

Can you click Start > Run > copy&paste this command regedit.exe /e C:\findfiles.txt "HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Explorer" > OK

This will create the file C:\findfiles.txt
Post the content of that file please.

Regards,

Pieter

 

hi

here is the contents of the requested file

REGEDIT4

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Explorer]
"LinkResolveIgnoreLinkInfo"=dword:00000001
"NoDriveTypeAutoRun"=hex:95,00,00,00
"NoStartBanner"=dword:00000001
"NoActiveDesktop"=dword:00000001
"NoActiveDesktopChanges"=dword:00000001
"NoCustomizeWebView"=dword:00000001
"NoSetActiveDesktop"=dword:00000001
"NoSettingsWizards"=dword:00000001
"NoWebMenu"=dword:00000001
"NoLogoff"=hex:01,00,00,00
"NoNetHood"=hex:01,00,00,00
@=hex:00,00,00,00
"NoChangeStartMenu"=hex:00,00,00,00
"NoRecentDocsMenu"=dword:00000000
"NoFavoritesMenu"=hex:00,00,00,00
"NoSMMyDocs"=dword:00000000
"NoSMMyPictures"=dword:00000000
"NoStartMenuMyMusic"=dword:00000000
"NoRecentDocsHistory"=dword:00000000
"ClearRecentDocsOnExit"=dword:00000001
"NoRecentDocsNetHood"=dword:00000000
"NoSMHelp"=dword:00000000
"NoRun"=dword:00000000
"NoUserNameInStartMenu"=dword:00000000
"NoInstrumentation"=dword:00000000
"NoStartMenuPinnedList"=dword:00000000
"EditLevel"=dword:00000000
"NoClose"=dword:00000000
"NoFileMenu"=dword:00000000

 

Not what I expected to find. (a "NoFind" entry)

Can you have a look at this article:
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;222029
and check for the regsitry entry described there.

Another thing you can try (although it's meant for XP)
Click Start > RUN > Type or copy&paste these commands (one by one followed by clicking OK)

regsvr32 urlmon.dll
regsvr32 jscript.dll
regsvr32 wshom.ocx

HTH,

Pieter

 

hi

it would apper that restoring

REGEDIT4

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\explorer\FindExtensions\ShellFind]
@="{61E218E0-65D3-101B-9F08-061CEAC3D50D}"

to the registry fixed the problem thanks

so now for my next quandrie why wont regedit excercute from the run box every time i try i get the following error

http://img336.imageshack.us/img336/4660/untitled3ne.png

again i think its probabley same problem i had with the find command some registry entry has goten messed up but i dont know which one

 

Can you do a find files (now that it works ) for regedit.*

Let me know which ones were found where.

Regards,

Pieter

 

regedit.exe c:\Windows v4.10.1998

its not regedit that not working coz i restored the oridional from the install disk thats the first thing i tryed also if i click directley on the regedit exe it works ok

so thats why i think its probabley a registry error again

 

So I get this right:
You can start regedit by doubleclicking the file itself but you can't start it from the DOS prompt because you get the shown error.

Regards,

Pieter

 

well close

i can start it by clicking on the regedit.exe and if i go to to c:\ and double click on command.com and type regedit then again it works

but if i go to start/run/regedit i get the above error

stranger still if i right click regedit.exe and create a short cut on the desktop then go to start/run/regedit its works fine and i dont get the above error

im totaly stumped i havnt got a clue what might be causing this

 

That is why I asked you to look for regedit.*

I suspected a file called regedit.com or another extension to be present that gets started.

If you do Start > Run > regedit.exe
Does it work then?

Regards,

Pieter

 

hi

thanks for ya help

as i have said befor if i open command com and type regedit

or

double click regedit it works

but then i go to Start > Run > regedit.exe

i get the above error

 

Like I said before. There are only two options for this to happen.

Since you now tested one and still get the error, the only one left is that Windows gets the wrong regedit.exe first (one from a different folder)

Can you check that too please?

I seem to remember that the following order is %root%, %windir%, %sysdir%
Not completely sure about that though.

Regards,

Pieter

 

Hi Pieter,

I really don't know if this might be useful (I'd better leave those things to you ):

At the following site is a tweak for ME-2000-XP, alas it doesn't tell about 98 :
http://www.winguides.com/registry/display.php/1154/

Apologies for interrupting !

 

Hi FanJ,

When it concerns Windows 98 feel free to jump in anytime.
I've never used it, so you are much more experienced with it then I am.

Regards,

Pieter

 

hi

i think i worked out what was causing my trouble i found a suspicious file in windows called write.exe now it looks excatley like word pad that comes with windows and when ya double click on it thats what it opens up but what i find suspicious is that it was in the windows folder and its not word pag coz the lagit word pad is called WORDPAD.EXE and is located in

"C:\Program Files\Accessories\WORDPAD.EXE"

so i was wondering if somone wants to have a look at this file incase its somthing bad

odd thing is that when goodleing this file i couldnt find any refrence to it being some sort of trojen or what have you so and when i click properties it says its a lagit M$ file but im not so sure coz if it is why was it messing with regedit

 

scrach that its was an empy ini file called nregedit.ini and another file called regedit.w98

that being said id still be intrested t find out if this write.exe is malware of some sort

 

hi cursed ghost...

I cannot help with other problems, but, can point you in a direction to check that file you are worried about.

Scan it here with multiple scanners at http://virusscan.jotti.org/ by uploading it to their site.

see what you get.

Cheers, TAS

 

also a google on write.exe gives various results.

Compaq 3598 system has it as a driver
McAfee / Trend has it listed as worm

etc.

TAS