Find vs Search

[Jerry]

Windows 98 had the Find option (ctrl-f) when looking for files or
folders or text within a window. It was quick and easy and navigation
was up or down.

Windows Xp Search option is far more cumbersome.

Does anyone know how to get the Find option into Xp?

 

[Guest]

Hi - have you actually tried the old Ctrl+f rather than Search? Only ask, as
I am using XP Home and it still works for me

 

[Torgeir Bakken \(MVP\)]

Windows 98 had the Find option (ctrl-f) when looking for files or
folders or text within a window. It was quick and easy and navigation
was up or down.

Windows Xp Search option is far more cumbersome.

Does anyone know how to get the Find option into Xp?

Hi

You could install the free Agent Ransack, it's one of the first things
I install on a WinXP computer.

Download it from here:
http://www.mythicsoft.com/agentransack/default.aspx

Agent Ransack can even save the search result to a file (or clipboard),
as text, comma separated text or tab separated text. E.g. Excel reads
comma separated text (csv) very well.

When searching for text inside files, Agent Ransack is also able to do
a preview of the lines the text was found in (just do a single click on
the found file).

 

[Steve Nielsen]

Hi - have you actually tried the old Ctrl+f rather than Search? Only ask, as
I am using XP Home and it still works for me

Ctrl-F in a file system window (My Computer, Explorer) still launches
Search Companion, so no difference.

Steve

 

[Jerry]

I downloaded and installed it. Tried it a couple of times. Then
uninstalled it. Certainly not as simplistic as ctrl+f and definitely
not my cup of tea.

 

[Jerry]

Yes - I've actually tried it in Xp Pro - but I do not have Xp Home.
It does not work for me in Xp Pro. It still gives the Search format
pane on the left-hand side of Windows Explorer.

I even have Win 98 SE at the office and tried to find the associated
file for it - thinking that I might be able to import it into Xp. I
did find a find.exe, but it appears to be dos based rather than gui.
In any case, it doesn't do the Find dialogue box like I was looking
for.