Restore "Find exact phrase" search feature

[Guest]

In Windows XP, I often used the advanced search features for find an exact
phrase in all of the doucments on one of my CD-ROMs. This allowed a quick
search of many Word documents, pdf documents, and HTML documents, searching
for a phrase like "Norwegian bachelor farmer". Now the Vista system does not
find an exact phrase -- the search will find documents containing Norwegian,
bachelor, and farmer, in any order, throughout the entire document, but not
the exact phrase. Augh! Very frustrating. I hate to lose a useful feature.

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[Dave]

Have you looked at this?
http://windowsvistablog.com/blogs/windowsvista/pages/advanced-search-techniques.aspx

 

[Neil Harley]

In Windows XP, I often used the advanced search features for find an exact
phrase in all of the doucments on one of my CD-ROMs. This allowed a quick
search of many Word documents, pdf documents, and HTML documents, searching
for a phrase like "Norwegian bachelor farmer". Now the Vista system does not
find an exact phrase -- the search will find documents containing Norwegian,
bachelor, and farmer, in any order, throughout the entire document, but not
the exact phrase. Augh! Very frustrating. I hate to lose a useful feature.

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suggestions with the most votes. To vote for this suggestion, click the "I
Agree" button in the message pane. If you do not see the button, follow this
link to open the suggestion in the Microsoft Web-based Newsreader and then
click "I Agree" in the message pane.

http://windowshelp.microsoft.com/co...icrosoft.public.windows.vista.file_management

In the 'Start Search' entry box enter your search criteria in quotes (at
least it works for me to only find the correct documents and not thousands).

On my system "Norwegian bachelor farmer" will not return the same
results as Norwegian bachelor farmer