advanced search dialog box doesn't open

[rgloudemans]

I went to do an advanced search and the dialog box does not appear at all. It shows up down in the task bar but when I click on it to make it active nothing appears. I try to minimize and then restore from the tack bar and I get nothing. I tried to reboot I even tried the reinstall from add/remove programs. The strange thing is if I hit Alt F it will give me the file pull down and let open a saved search but nothing will show up. I am thinking this must be a windows issue. Anyone have any ideas?

Thanks,

Rob

Inventor 10 Pro
Vault 4
Dell Precision 670
Windows XP Pro SP2
Xeon 3.6 GHz
3 GB Ram
Nvidia Quadro FX 4400

[Anonymous]

I wonder if maybe it's positioning the window off-screen. If you look in
the directory: %appdata%\Autodesk\VaultExplorer\Objects, see what
happens if you delete the DialogLocations.xml file.

Jeff

rgloudemans wrote:
> I went to do an advanced search and the dialog box does not appear at all. It shows up down in the task bar but when I click on it to make it active nothing appears. I try to minimize and then restore from the tack bar and I get nothing. I tried to reboot I even tried the reinstall from add/remove programs. The strange thing is if I hit Alt F it will give me the file pull down and let open a saved search but nothing will show up. I am thinking this must be a windows issue. Anyone have any ideas?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Rob
>
> Inventor 10 Pro
> Vault 4
> Dell Precision 670
> Windows XP Pro SP2
> Xeon 3.6 GHz
> 3 GB Ram
> Nvidia Quadro FX 4400

[rgloudemans]

That did the Trick.

Thanks Jeff!!!

[designengineer]

Hello,
i have this problem, even after deleting the xml file, it still doesnt show.
When i RMB click on the task bar icon, and hit "move", the cursor does come from off the screen.
Any other ideas?


Precision WorkStation 380
Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 3.00GHz
2046MB RAM.
Windows XP Professional (5.1, Build 2600) Service Pack 2
NVIDIA Quadro NVS 285 64mb
Driver Version: 77.56 (English)
Space pilot
Inventor 10 (AIS sp3a)
Vault 4 sp2 Build 10.2.4.0
MDT2006
Excel 2000 (9.0.2720)

[designengineer]

Just informing you of another fix.
I deleted the vault common and Vault explorer folders in the documents and settings folders, to no avail.
I then changed my screen resolution to the highest res, and the advanced find suddenly re-appeared, dont know why.
Any ideas why?

[Anonymous]

I can see why the higher res would allow you to see it. Could it be due to
you running at this higher res first, then lowering the res later when the
problem became apparent? As for deleting the folders/xml files, that should
resolve any problems you have by essentially resetting everything to the
out-of-the-box defaults, but you have to exit out of Vault Explorer, delete
the folders, then re-start Vault Explorer for it to work. That's the only
caveat I can think of..

Thanks
Bob

wrote in message news:5084241@discussion.autodesk.com...
Just informing you of another fix.
I deleted the vault common and Vault explorer folders in the documents and
settings folders, to no avail.
I then changed my screen resolution to the highest res, and the advanced
find suddenly re-appeared, dont know why.
Any ideas why?