re: How to do in Vista what was simple in XP
Tuesday, March 10, 2009 at 10:36 am
Windows Vista Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by John Culham
(1 messages posted)
There's probably better ways to do this, however it can be done. Start by doing
a search for anything on a small folder, so it finishes quickly. At the bottom of
the search results you should see a section labeled:
"Did you find what you were searching for?"
and under that
"Search in File Contents" "Advanced Search"
Click on "Advanced Search" then put thumbs.db in the Name edit box, select your other
options and you'll get the search you want.
there must be a more sensible way to get to the advanced search but i haven't found
it yet.
Hope this helps
On Saturday, March 7, 2009 at 1:14 am, NigelHH wrote:
>Is there a website detailing the main differences between Vista and XP? I mean for
>users, not the Microsoft blurb about how Vista is better...
>
>For instance:
>In XP, you could search for a file name, and optionally search for contents within
>the file.
>
>In bl**dy Vista, you have only this search box, and have to change options to stop
>searching within files.
>
>I reckon XP was better in this respect. I am trying to search for all the files
named
>"thumbs.db". Vista has been searching for about 20 minutes now, and is finding every
>file named "thumbs..db" and also every file that contains the string "thumbs.db".
>
>Is there any easy way around this - a "classic" search that reproduces the XP behaviour?
>No third pary products please...
>
>Ta
>
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