I have a problem with a friends Win 98SE installation, where the "Find, files or folders" function if focused on the root drive, but not directed at the current day's files through the "date" tab, or at a specific .ext file extension (*.ext), only returns files in the root and the Windows folders. Yes, the "Include subfolders" box is checked. I use this function, "Find, files or folders", focused on the root drive and including all subfolders, to search for files modified within specific timeframes or to search for files within specific size ranges. Because of the misbehavior of the function on this machine, I am unable to do global searches restricted in this manner, which I regularily do on other Win 98 machines. I've a hunch that the registry has been tampered with to restrict global searches. Does anyone have any ideas about how this problem might be corrected? I understand from this article that the controlling registry entry is at HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\ Directory\ shell\ find\ ddeexec under (Default) The entry there on the problem machine now reads [FindFolder("%l", %I)] which I cannot interpret. What does this l and I entry do or mean; how does it affect the Find function behavior? Should the entry be more like [FindFolder("C:\", C:\)]? Can you point me to sources that help me to understand these entries and how they work in more depth? Thanks very much

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