>i have literally thousands of .prg files that i've written over the last 15 years. most of them are one time programs that were used once and never used again. i'm looking for a way to search my hard drive to find particular files. Microsoft's built in Windows Search is a piece of crap and I don't even try that anymore. does anyone know if its possible to use one of the new desktop searches by Google, Yahoo or Microsoft to find .PRG files? Else are there any plugins available for PRG searches?
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Apparently, the problem is that, for searching files that contain a certain text string, Windows XP only includes "registered" files. Either you can make adjustments to the registry, or - better - forget about the crap of the built-in search, and use third-party tools.
I have also used Agent Ransack (freeware) successfully, but I still have to investigate a little about the "regular expressions". In the meantime, it did help me with simple searches.
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