Hi Nancy

AgentRansack works just like I expect it to and it is fast.

Thanks,
Simon

>Simon-
>
>>Has anyone else noticed that the Search feature in Windows Explorer in the WinXP OS is useless for finding files containing a text string?
>
>Yes, and that Zip files are searched as directories and return results that are amigious as to whether the file is in a Zip file or in a directory. Changing fundamentally how Explorer search works w/o giving users and easy way to choose to use the old style is one of the things MS absolutely deserves to be flamed about, IMHO.
>
>Sergey and Lisa have pointed to solutions. However, you might find a non-OS solution to be helpful, too. I've been using Agent Ransack for most of my searches and it works well. It gives me the additional feature of showing a snippet of the context of the text I'm looking for, and it's fast w/o having to have indexing service on.
>
>http://www.mythicsoft.com/agentransack/default.aspx
>
>Updated:
>
>If you want to disable the built in Zip utility, look at this tip:
>http://www.jsiinc.com/subk/tip5200/rh5232.htm
>
>I don't recall if it's the one I used when I installed WXP, so I can't vouch for it. However, it was something like this.