LKBEN10772: Howto start the windows vista search from the command line


Symptom

You would like to start the vista search GUI from the commandline

Cause

none

Solution

To do this you type the following in the commandline. Do not forget the colon behind the command.

explorer search-ms:

This will start the normal search wizard in vista.

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About the Author

Author: Wim Peeters - Keskon GmbH & Co. KG

Wim Peeters is electronics engineer with an additional master in IT and over 30 years of experience, including time spent in support, development, consulting, training and database administration. Wim has worked with SQL Server since version 6.5. He has developed in C/C++, Java and C# on Windows and Linux. He writes knowledge base articles to solve IT problems and publishes them on the Lubby Knowledge Platform.