>Hi all
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>SET RANT ON
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>I was recently trying to find a hidden file in WinXP (I use W2K) on a clients laptop. I went to the equiv. of Folder Option and allowed explorer to show Hidden and Protected files. Now I went to Search and tried to find the file (I know it is there else the message would not have been displayed), the search cannot find the file. As this was happening while I was guiding the user on the phone I was pretty sure he had bungled up somewhere. Tired I asked him to bring the laptop over, we went through the process all over again, no luck. It was then I noticed that Search had a Advanced button, I clicked on it and lo there is another checkbox which had overridden the global setting of finding hidden files. Imagine how much time, effort and call charges were wasted by a smart design.
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>SET RANT OFF

I wonder what goes on in the heads at MSFT. I face a similar oddity more or less every day. Before the daily backup, I usually check which files will be backed up. Often I want to skip the backup of a few huge files which are not important to back up every day. Which clown has decided that read only and hidden are "normal" attributes, while archive, which I often need to change, is "advanced"? Beats me.