Microsoft customer help: error message: a file that is required to run Search Companion cannot be found (a file required by the search assistant cannot be found)
After the system "slimming" operation orProgramHowever, destroying system files may result in failure of the Windows XP search assistant function. Specifically, after the "Search" function is executed, an error dialog box is displayed, prompting "you cannot find a file required to run the search assistant. You may need to run the installation. "Then, the" search assistant "toolbar is blank.
There are three solutions,
1. Open the folder "C: \ WINDOWS \ inf" and find "srchasst. INF file. Right-click the file and select "Install" from the pop-up menu (You may be prompted to insert the system installation disk );
Second, run the registry and choose "hkey_current _ User \ Software \ Microsoft \ Windows \ CurrentVersion \ Explorer \ cabinetstate" to create a new string "use search Asst ", set the value to "no ".
3. Open notepad, enter the following content, save the content as a. BAT file, and run it.
CD/D "% SystemRoot % \ System32"
Regsvr32/u/s msxml3.dll
Regsvr32/s msxml3.dll
Exit