Text Search: how to search a substring using search companion

[Search Question]

It appears that in XP, you can't search for a substring
when searching a text(at least by default) I tried the
standard wild cards.

Is there a way to activate that capability? it is very
useful feature.

 

[David Candy]

Don't use wildcards. Just enter the sub string.

 

[Alex Nichol]

It appears that in XP, you can't search for a substring
when searching a text(at least by default) I tried the
standard wild cards.

It only searches for text in a very limited number of types - they must
either have registry entries saying they are pure Text (.TXT and not
much else) or have known 'filters' to handle embedded format controls,
so that Search can avoid being confused by thinking those are characters
in 16 bit Unicode (eg .doc, .htm). You can add an additional type as
pure text provided you know that it *is* that, and that it does not
already have a 'PersistentHandler' in the registry. Make the following,
after - - start and before - - end into a file by cut/paste to NotePad.
Make sure there is a blank line at the end. Save as "Patch.reg" then
d-click on this file to enter it into the registry.
This is for .log - modify that for other extensions, with care.

- - start
REGEDIT4

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\.log\PersistentHandler]
@="{5e941d80-bf96-11cd-b579-08002b30bfeb}"


- - end

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www.agentransack.com