i havent used lw for like weeks now it hasnt responded to anything id done so far i was guessing it was a JRE problem and that fooling with the options seemed a little pointless if it was infact bugged or an incompatability problem or something but since you kept telling me to change options to fix i had been fooling with them without any changed until i decided to revert back to the default settings in the LW options, it worked my search results appear again, i guess LW had been uninstalling everything but keeping some kind of settings saved instead of wiping itself from my system completely, these settings had been loaded automatically when i installed a new LW...i know ive had this problem more than once sop im sure someone else will run into it eventually if u do just go to tools, options, restore defaults. thanks for ur help and inspiring me to look in my options for a resolution clipmgr, i had no idea a problem like this would have such a simple resolution.