I hate the doggy search

[GreatArtist]

I hate when you search for files and the dog animation comes up and
tries to hold your hand through the search process like you're
retarded. This is so unneeded and cumbersome. It actually makes things
worse. Anybody know if/how I can just get back a classic style search
like in windows 2000?

 

[GreatArtist]

Never mind. I figured out how to get rid of the retarded stuff.

 

[Guest]

Hi GreatArtist,

When you first open Search, click on Change preferences in the dog's
dialogue balloon. Next, click on "Without an animated screen character" and
then after he runs off, click on Change preferences again. Click on "Change
files and folders search behavior" and then click in the radio button beside
"Advanced - inclues options to manually enter............"
Click on OK



Regards,

 

[Ron Badour]

Maybe it is just me but I have had problems with the XP search function not
finding files that it should have. I became so frustrated with it that I
removed the search entry from the start menu and use a third party program
called Agent Ransack that is fast and accurate.

 

[Dale]

Ron Badour said....

Maybe it is just me but I have had problems with the XP search function not
finding files that it should have. I became so frustrated with it that I
removed the search entry from the start menu and use a third party program
called Agent Ransack that is fast and accurate.

It is fair to say that I too was astounded to discover that all files were
not being searched. I *knew" they were there, but they would not come up
in the search.

Quote:
"Windows XP does not search all file [sic] to enhance the performance of
searching and to avoid extraneous results."

Once I got over my disbelief, I found out how to fix it with a simple
registry hack:
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/309173/en-us

See Method 2, toward the bottom of the page.

 

[Gerry]

Ron

My frustration has been with the search function in Vista not XP. The
freeware
version of Agent Ransack makes no mention of Vista. Do you need to buy
the
full version if you want to you use it with Vista?

--
Regards.

Gerry
~~~~
FCA
Stourport, England
Enquire, plan and execute
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

 

[Ron Badour]

Gerry,

I don't know--you need to contact the maker. I do note that the buy model
specifically mentions Vista while the free one does not.

 

[Ron Badour]

Hi Dale,

I am not sure that fix would cure the problem I had since I was not
searching for files containing text. Regardless, Ransack runs circles
around XP's search function in terms of speed and it finds files without a
registry hack
--
Regards

Ron Badour
MS MVP 1997 - 2007

Ron Badour said....

Maybe it is just me but I have had problems with the XP search function
not
finding files that it should have. I became so frustrated with it that I
removed the search entry from the start menu and use a third party
program
called Agent Ransack that is fast and accurate.

It is fair to say that I too was astounded to discover that all files were
not being searched. I *knew" they were there, but they would not come up
in the search.

Quote:
"Windows XP does not search all file [sic] to enhance the performance of
searching and to avoid extraneous results."

Once I got over my disbelief, I found out how to fix it with a simple
registry hack:
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/309173/en-us

See Method 2, toward the bottom of the page.

 

[Plato]

I hate when you search for files and the dog animation comes up and
tries to hold your hand through the search process like you're
retarded. This is so unneeded and cumbersome. It actually makes things
worse. Anybody know if/how I can just get back a classic style search
like in windows 2000?

Way better file search:

http://www.bootdisk.com/utility.htm
Windows XP Specific
Way Better File Search

 

[Isajanyan]

You can try Search GT (www.search-gt.com). It's a clone of Windows
2000 Files Search (it's integrated into Explorer), but is up to 100x
faster.