I've got a strange problem here. The Search Companion feature on my PC isn't working properly. It runs fine, I can enter searches and it finds some files. However, after a while of searching nothing else happens. The progress bar stil moves from left to right but the location of files it's searching in stops moving and no other files are found. When I click on STOP, the STOP button gets grayed out but the progress bar still moves from left to right. I can close the Search Companion without any problems (not even needing an 'End Now' dialogue box). I have no idea why this has happened or a fix.. any ideas anyone?

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