XP Search Facility

[Adrian]

The search facility is not looking at text within my .asp files
It seems that this is a well known problem - but the changes I've
tried just don't seem to work.
I.E. some registry change to do with PersistHandler and turning some
indexing thing off - I can't remember the details.
Anybody had this problem with .asp files and fixed it?
Thanks

 

[Tom Porterfield]

The search facility is not looking at text within my .asp files
It seems that this is a well known problem - but the changes I've
tried just don't seem to work.
I.E. some registry change to do with PersistHandler and turning some
indexing thing off - I can't remember the details.
Anybody had this problem with .asp files and fixed it?
Thanks

If neither of those worked, then one that will work is to use a
different search tool. I like the free Agent Ransack from
http://www.mythicsoft.com/agentransack/default.aspx.

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Tom Porterfield
MS-MVP MCE
http://support.telop.org

Please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup only.

 

[Ramesh [MVP]]

Adrian,

Type the command in RUN box. This adds the PersistentHandler for .asp files automatically.

REGSVR32 NLHTML

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Ramesh - Microsoft MVP
Windows XP Shell
http://www.mvps.org/sramesh2k
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The search facility is not looking at text within my .asp files
It seems that this is a well known problem - but the changes I've
tried just don't seem to work.
I.E. some registry change to do with PersistHandler and turning some
indexing thing off - I can't remember the details.
Anybody had this problem with .asp files and fixed it?
Thanks

 

[jerry s]

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Search Preference Setting
(to change to straighforward search as in previous windows versions where
you can find text inside a file)
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1. click Start / Search
2. click "Change Preferences"
3. click "Without Animated Characters"
4. click "Change Preferences"
5. click "Change Files and Folders Search Behavior"
6. click "Advanced...includes options to manually enter search criterias"
7. click OK
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The search facility is not looking at text within my .asp files
It seems that this is a well known problem - but the changes I've
tried just don't seem to work.
I.E. some registry change to do with PersistHandler and turning some
indexing thing off - I can't remember the details.
Anybody had this problem with .asp files and fixed it?

Thanks

 

[Kelly]

Hi Adrian,

There are several workarounds listed here: The edit you mention and others.
Good luck!

Why doesn't Search work?
http://www.kellys-korner-xp.com/top10faqs.htm

 

[Alex Nichol]

The search facility is not looking at text within my .asp files
It seems that this is a well known problem - but the changes I've
tried just don't seem to work.
I.E. some registry change to do with PersistHandler and turning some
indexing thing off - I can't remember the details.

The usual registry fix for Persistent Handler for this is not correct
for .asp, which has its own one, that connects up with the handler for
HTML files. I am not sure that this will be the full solution for you,
but restore the standard Persistent Handler for it . Make the
following, after - - start and before - - end into a file by cut/paste
to NotePad. Don't let lines wrap around, and make sure there is a blank
line at the end. Save as "Patch.reg" then right-click on this file and
take Merge to enter it into the registry.

- - start
REGEDIT4

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\.asp]
@="aspfile"

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\.asp\aspfile]

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\.asp\aspfile\ShellNew]

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\.asp\PersistentHandler]
@="{eec97550-47a9-11cf-b952-00aa0051fe20}"



- - end