SW SP3 Messes up Explorer

I had some time yesterday so I upgraded an evaluation machine from
SP2.2 to 3.0.
Installation went well - everything installed ok and no errors
generated.

First time SW started up I get an HTML error dialog box telling me I
have an internet explorer script error.
Further reading shows me that there is a type mismatch to the URL:
file:// C:\Program Files\SolidWorks\data\search\search.html
Then asks if you want to continue running the script.

Reading the SW Release notes tells me that they are using new MS
Search code in 3.0 that is no longer compatible with 2.2.
They give you instructions to follow on how to copy and then register
a new .dll.
Gives you instructions on how to refresh search but I cannot get
option to appear when touching the Red SW Search button located in the
top right corner.

After doing all this my machine hangs up every time I try to start MS
Explorer.
Alt-Ctr-Del results in 20-40% of my process being consumed by the
WindowsSearchFilter.exe of which I have 3-4 copies running (unknown to
me). System hangs need to log off.

Presently I cannot use my machine (its not in production environment)

How do I turn this "feature" off. Seems to cause no end of problems.
Does anyone use it?

Just blowing off steam so somebody else doesn't have to.

Len

 

It gets better......

Now anytime I need to find a file (open file in Word, Excel, etc...) I
get a Windows Desktop Search Filter reporting dialog error.

It keeps popping up every 4 seconds......


aRGGGGGGG

 

But what a VISTA ... er view you get.

 

In control panel>administrative tools>services try to turn off the "windows
search" service. does this help?

Cheers,
Gil

 

Thanks for the suggestion.
Trying to access the control panel locks up my system.

Len

 

Uninstall window desktop search it's not ready for Primetime. On the 30+
machines we have i have it uninstalled and no problems.

Cheers
Dennis

 

The solution was to re-register several .dll's and then install the
latest MS Destop Search Software.
I was then able to get to the add/remove programs and remove Destop
Search from my system. Still getting some script error on setup (SW
Search Icon still exists so I suspect its complaining it can start it)
but at least I can use explorer.

Len

 

I have removed Windows Desktop Search on all our computers aswell 30+
it caused them to slow down and came up with various errors.

Even our VAR ended up telling that it wasnt of much use for more than
on a single user enviroment (same VAR that told us pre-2007 that it
would help us being able to use it for faster search in our archives
and bringing the "where-used-in" option back which we havent been able
to use since 2004 because of our number of parts/assys/drawings in our
archive).

Was just to add my comment since you already got your problem solved.