I have gone to using GoFish to do all my searches. You can find it at file #9925. It can search for a string in all the files within a VFP project and/or a particular directory. It is able to directly edit the found strings which are automatically recompiled. And, it has the option of Auto-Replacing the found strings with another string. This utility is compiled in VFP 6.0, works for VFP and 2.x files.

HTH

Dan

>There are many occations where a variable or table field is changed. To find all uses of the changed item in order to make the changes, one usually uses the search facility in windows to search for a string in files.
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>Up until Windows XP this worked just fine but, Microsoft "fixed" the search in XP and it will no longer find text in Foxpro forms, reports, classes, etc. (see KB article Q309173)
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>In order to make text searches in Foxpro files work, Microsoft states that you need to "Install a program that registers a filter for the file types". Being a Microsoft product surely such a filter file is provided yet, I find no mention of it on the Microsoft site.
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>Can anyone tell me how to acquire this critical file?