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by wordmaster1

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This computer has an AMD K62-450 with 512 mg RAM, a 30 gig HD and a 6 gig HD, a CD-ROM and a CD-RW, a tape backup. Running PQmagic with three bootable partitions, win 3.11 and DOS 6.22, win95c and win98 2nd edition. The win95c is the OS of choice onthis machine.

When I go to "find files or folders" I can search any drive, but only separately. When "look in" is set on "my computer" nothing is searched.

This is a recent problem and the PQM and other OS's have been installed and working for some time. BTW, find works fine when the machine is booted in win98 so it would appear to not be a hardware problem.

Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thank you.

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by wordmaster1

Further info: Everything is set up on fat16 and the physical drives are divided into 2 gig partitions using PQM. All partitions are visible except the other bootable ones.

by trurod70

try booting to dos prompt and running scanreg /fix. If you dont have it on your 95, take it from your 98 and copy to your 95.

by estebandelatorre

That's a real strange issue. at a very Frist look I should say "memory" but you have a nice Dimm...
What happens if you try to search on "local Drives" instead? Does it works?

by wordmaster1

Each drive can be searched independently. The problem is that there is no way to search multiple drives. BTW, If I boot in win98, the find function works perfectly. Just does not work in 95c. It has worked in the past, but I do not know exactly when it stopped and am unable to define changes made immediately before it stopped working. Any help or ideas greatly appreciated

by ann777

You have a corrupt or missing registry entry. Use Regedt32 to navigate to the following key:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\explorer\FindExtensions\ShellFind

NOTE: If the key path is not present, Add Key from the Edit menu.

There should be a Value Name in the right hand pane that contains the following REG_SZ string data:

{61E218E0-65D3-101B-9F08-061CEAC3D50D}

If the value name is not present, use Add Value on the Edit menu to add an un-named (blank) value. Then set the string data.

by ann777

actually use "regedit"

regedt32 is for winnt/2000 ; same key for this problem in those oses.

by wordmaster1

I went through the procedure you suggested, and at the end, in the right pane it has "default" and the string you listed. You say it should be "blank" value. Is "default" the same as blank or shoud I change this? Seems you are very familiar with this type of problem. If "default" is as it should be, any other suggestions would be greatly appreciated and anxiously awaited. Thank you.

by ann777

Yes, "default" is what should be there... blank and default are synonmous.

Yes, this is definitely not a hardware problem, but a corrupted or incorrect registry setting.

1) The problem you describe is only happening in Win95C ? (not Win98)?

2) Which version of partition magic are you using?

3) If it's only win95 where the problem is, then here's the next thing I recommend that you try:
a) Boot to Win98
b) Go to Windows Explorer in Win98
c) start --> Fild --> Files or folders and search for all the "find*.*" programs in your Win95 partition (without the quotes).
d) rename them to a *.old extension (ie find.exe --> find.old). If you have findfast.exe you can leave those alone (they are a part of ms office).
e) save and then boot to your win95 partition and re-run setup.

If the above doesn't work, then the only other suggestion I have is to re-build your Win95 registry:

https://www.techrepublic.com/article.jhtml?id=r00320000807det01.htm

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