re: Question about 'Get Find/Search - Advanced' in Windows XP Friday, January 2, 2004 at 3:23 am Windows XP Annoyances Discussion Forum Posted by Samsonite (1 messages posted) I don't know what the smoked in Redmond when they decided to spend time on providing animated toys in the search dialog instead of letting users search for all stuff they want. It's times like these the Linux folks are just laughing at us. /Sam On Monday, May 12, 2003 at 4:34 pm, Simon Carter wrote: >Seems to me, that what Microsoft are saying in their solution is that "we decided >to 'improve searching' by only looking in file we recognize". Somehow they have ignored >the fact that there are many cases when you want to look up phrases in other places >than .TXT and Office files. I for instance have found that SEARCH won't look into >Microsoft Works 4.x files properly!!! >How did they miss this on initial release. Written in response to: re: Question about 'Get Find/Search - Advanced' in Windows XP (Simon Carter: Monday, May 12, 2003 at 4:34 pm) There are presently no replies to this message. All messages in this thread [show all] Question about 'Get Find/Search - Advanced' in Windows XP (Michael Fowler: Fri, Feb 21, 2003, 7:36 am) re: Question about 'Get Find/Search - Advanced' in Windows XP (Tom Swanson: Fri, Feb 21, 2003, 8:40 pm) re: Question about 'Get Find/Search - Advanced' in Windows XP (Peter Ebell: Tue, Apr 15, 2003, 6:44 am) re: Question about 'Get Find/Search - Advanced' in Windows XP (Brent Corkum: Thu, Apr 24, 2003, 7:21 am) re: Question about 'Get Find/Search - Advanced' in Windows XP (Simon Carter: Mon, May 12, 2003, 4:34 pm) re: Question about 'Get Find/Search - Advanced' in Windows XP (Samsonite: Fri, Jan 2, 2004, 3:23 am) re: Question about 'Get Find/Search - Advanced' in Windows XP (Pat Berry: Tue, Feb 10, 2004, 8:52 am) re: Question about 'Get Find/Search - Advanced' in Windows XP (Brian O'Donnell: Thu, Mar 15, 2007, 12:06 pm) Reply or follow-up to this message Search this forum Start a new thread on a different subject Report abuse of the forum Return to the Windows XP Discussion Forum