diff --git a/client/gui/AEBaseGui.java b/client/gui/AEBaseGui.java
index d1635e81..61faf833 100644
--- a/client/gui/AEBaseGui.java
+++ b/client/gui/AEBaseGui.java
@@ -56,9 +56,18 @@ public abstract class AEBaseGui extends GuiContainer
 
 	protected List<InternalSlotME> meSlots = new LinkedList<InternalSlotME>();
 	protected GuiScrollbar myScrollBar = null;
+	static public boolean switchingGuis;
+	final private boolean subGui;
 
 	public AEBaseGui(Container container) {
 		super( container );
+		subGui = switchingGuis;
+		switchingGuis = false;
+	}
+
+	public boolean isSubGui()
+	{
+		return subGui;
 	}
 
 	@Override
diff --git a/client/gui/implementations/GuiMEMonitorable.java b/client/gui/implementations/GuiMEMonitorable.java
index a5d73f34..431541d3 100644
--- a/client/gui/implementations/GuiMEMonitorable.java
+++ b/client/gui/implementations/GuiMEMonitorable.java
@@ -44,6 +44,8 @@ public class GuiMEMonitorable extends AEBaseMEGui implements ISortSource, IConfi
 {
 
 	MEGuiTextField searchField;
+	private static String memoryText = "";
+
 	ItemRepo repo;
 
 	GuiText myName;
@@ -127,6 +129,13 @@ public class GuiMEMonitorable extends AEBaseMEGui implements ISortSource, IConfi
 		this.initGui();
 	}
 
+	@Override
+	public void onGuiClosed()
+	{
+		super.onGuiClosed();
+		memoryText = searchField.getText();
+	}
+
 	@Override
 	public void initGui()
 	{
@@ -213,7 +222,13 @@ public class GuiMEMonitorable extends AEBaseMEGui implements ISortSource, IConfi
 		Enum setting = AEConfig.instance.settings.getSetting( Settings.SEARCH_MODE );
 		searchField.setFocused( SearchBoxMode.AUTOSEARCH == setting || SearchBoxMode.NEI_AUTOSEARCH == setting );
 
-		setScrollBar();
+		if ( isSubGui() )
+		{
+			searchField.setText( memoryText );
+			repo.searchString = memoryText;
+			repo.updateView();
+			setScrollBar();
+		}
 
 		for (Object s : inventorySlots.inventorySlots)
 		{
diff --git a/core/sync/packets/PacketSwitchGuis.java b/core/sync/packets/PacketSwitchGuis.java
index 718d97cf..fd4ee425 100644
--- a/core/sync/packets/PacketSwitchGuis.java
+++ b/core/sync/packets/PacketSwitchGuis.java
@@ -8,6 +8,7 @@ import java.io.IOException;
 import net.minecraft.entity.player.EntityPlayer;
 import net.minecraft.inventory.Container;
 import net.minecraft.tileentity.TileEntity;
+import appeng.client.gui.AEBaseGui;
 import appeng.container.AEBaseContainer;
 import appeng.container.ContainerOpenContext;
 import appeng.core.sync.AppEngPacket;
@@ -46,6 +47,8 @@ public class PacketSwitchGuis extends AppEngPacket
 
 		this.newGui = newGui;
 
+		AEBaseGui.switchingGuis = true;
+
 		ByteBuf data = Unpooled.buffer();
 
 		data.writeInt( getPacketID() );