>Hi Jim.
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>>It looks like Vista's Search is about as good as XP's.
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>Vista's search feature is based on indexed locations. Program Files isn't normally indexed, but you can change that in the Indexing Options control panel applet.

I had that suspicion, but I thought that when I pointed it directly at the directory, told it to search subdirs and look at hidden files - and it took a while to run - that the index had been bypassed.

Frankly, MS is starting to make things a bit too smart, without telling us the caveats.

cheers

>
>Doug