re: Question about 'Get Find/Search - Advanced' in Windows XP
Tuesday, April 15, 2003 at 6:44 am
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Posted by Peter Ebell
(1 messages posted)
I am experiencing the exact same behaviour that Michael Fowler reports: when searching
for files containing some text, I do get hits in *.txt files, but not in (for example)
*.java, *.xml, *.xsl etc. I have tried various tips I found on the web (such as adding
a "plain text" PersistentHandler key to these extensions in HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT, and
adding the extensions to the file lcldocs.xml) but nothing seems to work. Apparently
Microsoft wants me to rename these files to have a *.txt extension, because doing
so suddenly returns hits in them as well.
I am totally amazed at this behaviour, that even setting "Use Classic Search In Explorer"
in TweakUI does not seem to fix. It does not take rocket science to know that these
filetypes are not binaries (assuming for a brief moment that you would not want content
searching on such files). Even in HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT they are reported with "PerceivedType"="text".
Does anyone know how to disable this annoying "feature"?
On Friday, February 21, 2003 at 8:40 pm, Tom Swanson wrote:
>If you are searching for a specific word or phrase, you will do better searching
>all files. You won't find anything in *.dat or other system or hidden files unless
>you specify those in advanced search features. I hear bad comments on search, but
>it always works for me. Takes a little more setup than W98 but does all the same
>things.
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