Google Desktop Quick Search Box Missing
Google Desktop is one of most amazing things Google have ever came up with. Incredibly fast indexing to all my files, emails, and web history, at a very low memory trade off as well. After using it for a while, I almost never use Windows search, which started to crash every time I run it, and never again I search my mails using outlook. Just simply double click Shift and the search box will come floating at your screen.
But what if the search box doesn’t come up? Could it happen? Well, this is my problem with my PC at home. Every other PC works fine except for this one. I tried many things, kept downloading recent updates in a hope it will fix it with no luck. Eventually I posted the question on Google Groups and they suggested this link for help. Ofcourse it didn’t help because, my problem is that, the Quick Search Box option is not showing in the Preferences Display page. I thought it would be stupid to tell this. How on earth could the option be hidden. But soon someone else replied to the post and said “What if I don’t have the Quick Search Box section in Display? “. Thank God I said, it’s not only me. You can find the Groups post here to verify more. So anyways, I fired an email for Google Desktop team explaining all the problem details, now that I know I am not the only one. However, as I expected, Google Support is trained for the general answers and once you get with them into specific details, they don’t help you much. I never got any reply for my email. First time I ever don’t, so I can take a hint. They are not able to explain it. Does someone else have the same problem? I wonder what it could be related to. Hardware? Software? Other 3rd party? Is it because I am using cordless customized Logitech keyboard? Who knows. Appreciate any feedback on this.
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I’ve got the exact same problem as you – let’s see if I get any useful response:
http://groups.google.com/group/Google-Desktop_How-do-I/browse_thread/thread/8e4e354b1f285570
I/ve got the google “desktop search box “but no history will show iused to left click in the box &all my old stuff come back ,now nothin?got any ideas how to get it back
3 Laptops running Windows 7. The toolbar quick search box is not an option on my sons Windows 7 Professional 64 bit edition which was an upgrade from vista. It’s an HP machine. Quick search box is not an option in the toolbar preferences. Is working on the other 2 machines.
[...] Nevertheless, my main interest is always in how fast and efficient I can search my files, especially with that Quick Search Box. Unfortunately, as I have posted before with every version of Google Desktop I try on my HP Pavilion PC at home, the Quick Search Box does not show up. This morning, before I went to work I tried the new release, but the results were even more disappointing. After downloading the new Google Desktop, nothing much happened. On this laptop I am using right now, I got the message saying I need to restart for changes to take effect, but for some reason this Google Desktop behaves strangely on my HP Pavilion PC. I have read similar comments from other users as well. For some reason, Google did not respond to the email and post I had about the issue. Maybe they thought it’s too rare and too minor to bother for. Still, it’s a very great tool, I hope most of you guys are able to enjoy it as I am on my laptop, without the Quick Search Box it becomes so much slower to use I avoid it. [...]