Search?

[Steve]

I just cant' seem to get search to work worth a damn in Vista. Files that I
know I have Vista doesn't find and it is extremely slow. I'm not a computer
expert by any stretch, but I never had trouble with using search in XP.

I do like much about Vista, just need a search feature that doesn't search
for stuff like my kids would. Anyone point me to a program that works with
Vista and is safe to use?

 

[Mark L. Ferguson]

You 'never had any trouble with using search in XP'? Google didn't work
then? LOL

 

[Steve]

No I didn't. It found stuff it was there for me. Vista search doesn't find
files I know are on my PC. Tried Google but am unable to get it to look
beyond desktop or online.

Other than that did you have anything at all useful to add?

 

[Stubbo of Oz]

I just cant' seem to get search to work worth a damn in Vista. Files that I
know I have Vista doesn't find and it is extremely slow. I'm not a computer
expert by any stretch, but I never had trouble with using search in XP.

I do like much about Vista, just need a search feature that doesn't search
for stuff like my kids would. Anyone point me to a program that works with
Vista and is safe to use?

I never use windows search - don't like it at all in any version of
windows.

Try Agent Ransack free from:-

http://www.mythicsoft.com/agentransack/

I find it much better - works in my XP and Vista

 

[Charles W Davis]

Steve,

Have you turned off the indexing of your computer? Or was it turned off?
Many felt that the indexing was taking too much time and turned it off. The
search depends on the indexing.

On my new Vista computer, I moved 80GB of data to it from my XP system.
Indexing took about a week running in the background, 24 hours a day, to
complete the indexing.

Search is fast. By the time that I can type the third letter in a file name
it has been located.