>When I am searching for previous solutions to a problem, the UT search is limited to a 6-month window, but I often like to search for earlier solutions and find it a nuisance to have to repeat the search (a user-defined date-range would be useful). Tek-tips enables searching of the whole forum, but this is probably more practical because it has less traffic than UT.

As a small addition, I would like to add that maybe you probably never paid attention to the selection in that listbox to switch to a two year search. That can be auto defaulted from your account. As, going further than that, searching in the entire archive, would give too many unrelated messages as we can go as far as 1996.