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If you’re not using animation and it is not necessary for recipients to view the file in PowerPoint, consider saving the presentation as a PDF file

When I had computer with Vista, System Restore would not work. It would run, and after completing the entire cycle it would report that it did not change anything. The culprit was Norton Antivirus. After I completely uninsalled Norton, System Restore ran just fine. Neeldess to say, I never bought Norton again.

I had the same problem while trying to fix my daughter’s computer this evening. I searched for a solution and found that if you have Norton Internet Security, you must turn off a setting called Norton Product Tamper Protection in order to successfully run System Restore. Running System Restore in Safe Mode accomplishes the same thing.

It turns out that the “file cannot be found” message was due to a problem with the website. Now, when I use IE9, the zip file is downloaded. With Firefox or IE8 I get the exe. I was told by the owner of the website that IE9 would prevent the exe file from being downloaded. Consequently, when they detect that I’m using IE9 they offer the zip file rather than the exe. Does this all make sense?

Paul,
Thanks very much for the clear and concise answer to my question.

Peter

Oops. Are we searching for a document or for contents of documents? My searches will search within multiple documents (e.g. the word ‘firewall’). And perhaps you had better double-check the version of the Adobe ifilter you have installed. The advice has been that you must have the latest version (as well as the correct 64-bit or 32-bit). Version 6 is ancient history.

=> Searching for contents. By “find the same document” I meant that when I searched for text within documents, Search could not find the pdf file containing the text I was searching for with the Adobe IFilter 6.0 installed.

=> I suspected that version 6 of the Adobe IFilter might not be current. (On the web page for the download of this product there’s no indication of the date.) I could not find a later version in my search of the Adobe web site. While I’ve been told that the latest version of Adobe Reader includes the latest version of the IFilter, I was unwilling to install it because I’ve read that mixing Acrobat 8 and Reader 9 is not a good idea.

I’ve finally figured it all out. Yesterday I installed the free Foxit PDF IFilter 1.0.3213 (32 bit) from http://www.foxitsoftware.com/downloads/index.php. After indexing was complete I was able to search for text within PDF files using Windows Desktop Search. Today, as a test, I uninstalled the Foxit IFilter and installed Adobe PDF IFilter 6.0. Once indexing was complete, Search was unable to find the same document. I then uninstalled the Adobe IFilter and reinstalled the Foxit IFilter and confirmed that once again I could search successfully after the index was rebuilt. I don’t know why the Adobe IFilter doesn’t work. Perhaps it’s not compatible with Windows 7. I’ll stick with Foxit’s version.

I apologize if I have missed it, but in all of those posts I am still not clear on whether you have Adobe Acrobat but not the latest, or Adobe Reader. We do know that you have Windows 7. Whether or not you have Acrobat, you can still get the latest Reader, which is version 9.

Peter,
Thanks very much for your comments. As I stated in one of my replies, I have Acrobat 8. I don’t have Reader installed. In fact, I’ve read that installing Acrobat and Reader of different version levels is a bad idea.

Peter

Thanks to all who replied. I guess I was hoping for a one-stop solution in case I couldn’t remember whether the information I was looking for was in a pdf, doc, txt, etc. file. Shouldn’t the Adobe PDF IFilter or similar product work in Desktop Search? When I tried installing Adobe IFilter 6.0 I got a message that it wasn’t compatible with Windows 7.

There are two radio buttons below the list. You should see the “… and File Contents” one ON when you click on the pdf line in the list.

Yes, I see the radio buttons, and “Index Properties and File Contents” is selected. However, both options are grayed out and unselectable. The file description text (i.e., PDF Filter) is also gray instead of black.

Thanks to all have responded.

> I’m using the 32-bit version of Windows 7.

> The pdf files I’ve been using for testing are not images. I can select the text.

> When I look at Indexing Options > Advanced > File Types, the filter description says “PDF filter”.

I’m using Acrobat version 8. Should I install Reader version 9 to make sure I have the current version of IFilter?

Thanks for your reply, Ted. However, your solution only works if you know which file contains the text you’re looking for. Desktop Search theoretically works if you don’t know where the file is. It certainly works for text files, Word files, Excel files, etc. I think Search is supposed to work for pdf files, too, but it hasn’t worked for me.

Peter

Here is some additional information about my problem. If I delete the URL in the address bar and click on the drop down arrow, five URL’s show up under History and five URL’s show up under Favorites. It’s always the same URL’s. The five URL’s listed under history disappear if I turn off Autocomplete. However, the save five show up if I turn autocomplete back on, even though I also have clicked the Delete Autocomplete History.

Where could this information possible be stored? Could any of the add-ons be saving these URL’s?

Peter

Joe,
Thanks for your reply. Unfortunately your suggestion didn’t work.

BTW, I had also tried Reset on the Advanced tab of Tools Internet Options without success. Furthermore, I searched in the registry for the web sites listed in the address history but couldn’t find them.

Hans,
Thanks for your reply. I had searched the registry for the scout commands addin (also referred to as search commands) and couldn’t find it. Apparently the information was being stored in another place that Word was accessing.

I was able to use System Restore to restore my system to a state where Word was not corrupted. I was then able to remove unwanted addins. Office is behaving properly now.

Hans,
Thanks very much for the information. It was extremely helpful.
Peter