re: Question about 'Get Find/Search - Advanced' in Windows XP
Thursday, March 15, 2007 at 12:06 pm
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Posted by Brian O'Donnell
(1 messages posted)
If you're on XP, this solution worked for me:
1. Click Start, and then click Search (or point to Search, and then click For Files
or Folders).
2. Click Search Options, and then click Indexing Service.
3. Click Advanced. Note that you do not have to turn on the Index service.
4. On the toolbar, click Show/Hide Console Tree.
5. In the left pane, right-click Indexing Service on Local Machine, and then click
Properties.
6. On the Generation tab, click to select the Index files with unknown extensions
check box, and then click OK.
7. Close the Indexing Service console.
(Paraphrased from http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;309173)
Hope this helps!
On Friday, February 21, 2003 at 7:36 am, Michael Fowler wrote:
>I have a question about Get
>Find/Search Advance Option - containing text...:
>
>Whenever I perform Explorer's advanced search, where I include some text to find
>within the file(s) listed - it usually never finds any files to satisfy my request.
> I've tested it with searches that should have returned some known files. I have
>search *.txt and it has worked with those. Using *.dat (text or binary files) for
>example - always fails. Is there a limitation on file types that I'm not aware
of
>?
>
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