Windows Search not working!
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It seems that I can no longer use windows search to find files containing specific text in Win7! I have changed the advanced search settings and tried the contents: flag to no avail. Even XP did not find any results! I finally had to boot up the old 2000 box to find what I was looking for. In case it matters, the files in question are on mapped drives. Of course, I could just roll my own...hmmmm
"Go forth into the source" - Neal Morse
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It seems that I can no longer use windows search to find files containing specific text in Win7! I have changed the advanced search settings and tried the contents: flag to no avail. Even XP did not find any results! I finally had to boot up the old 2000 box to find what I was looking for. In case it matters, the files in question are on mapped drives. Of course, I could just roll my own...hmmmm
"Go forth into the source" - Neal Morse
Windows Search is ass. i keep a copy of Search & Replace[^] on the thumb drive on my keychain. works much better.
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It seems that I can no longer use windows search to find files containing specific text in Win7! I have changed the advanced search settings and tried the contents: flag to no avail. Even XP did not find any results! I finally had to boot up the old 2000 box to find what I was looking for. In case it matters, the files in question are on mapped drives. Of course, I could just roll my own...hmmmm
"Go forth into the source" - Neal Morse
Try bing :-D
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It seems that I can no longer use windows search to find files containing specific text in Win7! I have changed the advanced search settings and tried the contents: flag to no avail. Even XP did not find any results! I finally had to boot up the old 2000 box to find what I was looking for. In case it matters, the files in question are on mapped drives. Of course, I could just roll my own...hmmmm
"Go forth into the source" - Neal Morse
Well, did it ever? To be fair, with index enabled it's actually decent most of the time.
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It seems that I can no longer use windows search to find files containing specific text in Win7! I have changed the advanced search settings and tried the contents: flag to no avail. Even XP did not find any results! I finally had to boot up the old 2000 box to find what I was looking for. In case it matters, the files in question are on mapped drives. Of course, I could just roll my own...hmmmm
"Go forth into the source" - Neal Morse
It sucks. So bad, I hate it. XP is way better in so many ways. But, aparently, you just type in the box *.inf "mytext" and it searches inside the .inf files for that text. Intuitive eh? Yeah, not freaking likely.
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It seems that I can no longer use windows search to find files containing specific text in Win7! I have changed the advanced search settings and tried the contents: flag to no avail. Even XP did not find any results! I finally had to boot up the old 2000 box to find what I was looking for. In case it matters, the files in question are on mapped drives. Of course, I could just roll my own...hmmmm
"Go forth into the source" - Neal Morse
I've been able to see that after a while with the indexing enabled it mostly works... If you've just enabled indexing or it has still not finished... then use external tools...
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It seems that I can no longer use windows search to find files containing specific text in Win7! I have changed the advanced search settings and tried the contents: flag to no avail. Even XP did not find any results! I finally had to boot up the old 2000 box to find what I was looking for. In case it matters, the files in question are on mapped drives. Of course, I could just roll my own...hmmmm
"Go forth into the source" - Neal Morse
The "Windows Search" came installed on my recently purchased PC and needless to say, I couldn't find anything using it (yes, I had indexing enabled, BTW). After I uninstalled it and reverted back to the original search mechanism on XP (Yes, I utilized my downgrade right from Windows 7 to Windows XP) I can find things again. Just an FYI
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It seems that I can no longer use windows search to find files containing specific text in Win7! I have changed the advanced search settings and tried the contents: flag to no avail. Even XP did not find any results! I finally had to boot up the old 2000 box to find what I was looking for. In case it matters, the files in question are on mapped drives. Of course, I could just roll my own...hmmmm
"Go forth into the source" - Neal Morse
Yeah it used to work for me in Windows 2000. It got broken in XP but from memory there were some registry settings somewhere that could be changed to make it work again. I'm not sure if those registry settings are still there in Vista / 7 though. I typically use the find in files feature of visual studio most of the time, that usually finds what I'm looking for if the settings are correct. The search built into Windows is more optimized for searching certain types of indexable content like Outlook email, OneNote notebooks, Word documents etc and I don't think it bothers to search binary files at all. Even with the types it does support it doesn't work for me a lot of the time or finds multiple results of the same file (usually due to it getting confused by junction points etc).
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It seems that I can no longer use windows search to find files containing specific text in Win7! I have changed the advanced search settings and tried the contents: flag to no avail. Even XP did not find any results! I finally had to boot up the old 2000 box to find what I was looking for. In case it matters, the files in question are on mapped drives. Of course, I could just roll my own...hmmmm
"Go forth into the source" - Neal Morse
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It seems that I can no longer use windows search to find files containing specific text in Win7! I have changed the advanced search settings and tried the contents: flag to no avail. Even XP did not find any results! I finally had to boot up the old 2000 box to find what I was looking for. In case it matters, the files in question are on mapped drives. Of course, I could just roll my own...hmmmm
"Go forth into the source" - Neal Morse
One of the biggest problems with Windows is that tools like that, or that are not a core part of the operating system (e.g. media flayer) are generally either poorly implemented or bloated and s...l...o...w. You're better off installing a little, streamlined third-party app (or using something like Xplorer2, which is the knees of the bee).
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It seems that I can no longer use windows search to find files containing specific text in Win7! I have changed the advanced search settings and tried the contents: flag to no avail. Even XP did not find any results! I finally had to boot up the old 2000 box to find what I was looking for. In case it matters, the files in question are on mapped drives. Of course, I could just roll my own...hmmmm
"Go forth into the source" - Neal Morse
I disabled it. Worthless. I know where my files are.