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WinXP Explorer Search Feature is Useless.
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Visual FoxPro
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Miscellaneous
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It just seems silly that search really does not search. I am using AgentRansack that Nancy mentioned and it works just the way I expect.

Thanks
Simon


>Hi Simon,
>
>By default, the Search works differently under WinXP than under previous Windows versions. On how to make it to search all files, see http://www.jsiinc.com/subm/tip6200/rh6222.htm
>
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>>Has anyone else noticed that the Search feature in Windows Explorer in the WinXP OS is useless for finding files containing a text string?
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>>It never finds the files that I request even if I ensure that the "case sensitive" is not ticked.
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>>I have done this many times only to have it tell me that no file exists that match the criteria or it finds one and not the other. The other day I asked it to find all files in a folder containing the word "WPLogin". It found only one but I found two manually by opening each file and searching the contents.
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Simon White
dCipher Computing
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