You may have encountered an issue when your Start => Search => Popss… an error “A file that is required to run Search Companion cannot be found. You may need to run setup.”
Here would be the solutions for the error message as per displayed.
What’s the route caused?
Spyware
BHO
Windows Components which might be corrupted.
No worries, here you go. It works for me.
Solution
Navigate to: HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\Curre ntVersion\Explorer\CabinetState folder.
Go to: Edit>New>String Value.
Right-click the newly created key and rename it to “use search asst” without quotation marks. Click OK.
Double-click the new “use search asst” key and type “no” in the Value data field. Do not use quotation marks.
Close the registry editor.
This is a screenshot showing the subkey named “use search asst” and its value of “no”.
This would be how it looks like.
Restart the computer and see if the Search Menu works for your computer.
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