Sunday, April 17, 2011

No Search Box after "Control F" (Solution)

In your browser, typing “Control F” will open a search box that allows you to search for a specific word or text in a web page. Sometimes hitting “Control F” does produce an sort of empty bar but not the search box you expected.

The solution to this problem is to register "regsvr32 oleacc.dll" (again). 

Goto Start > Run > type "regsvr32 oleacc.dll" (without the "" and note the space between 32 and ol) and hit Enter. Restart your browser. That should do the trick.

Another option is to download and run a little program called Dial-a-Fix. While it hasn't been updated for quite a while (and probably never will be), it still registers loads of entries. Download Dial-a-Fix here. Run Dial-a-Fix and check  the option 'Explorer/IE/OE/Shell/WMP. Then hit 'Go'. You can safely disregard all warnings the program displays while (re)registering.

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