Fixing search

[mayayana]

Are there adjustments that can be made to improve
XP search? It seems to be undependable, and text
search doesn't seem to work at all in binary files.
For example, in Win98 I can search for:

Containing Text: explorer.exe
Where: A folder full of Windows installation CABs.

The Find applet will find which CAB contains explorer.exe.
On WinXP that doesn't seem to work. The string
"explorer.exe" is found only if it's in a text file.

(I don't want to use indexing. I just want it to work.)

 

[Donald Lessau]

Are there adjustments that can be made to improve
XP search? It seems to be undependable, and text
search doesn't seem to work at all in binary files.

Should work with XYplorerFree.

 

[philo]

Are there adjustments that can be made to improve
XP search? It seems to be undependable, and text
search doesn't seem to work at all in binary files.
For example, in Win98 I can search for:

Containing Text: explorer.exe
Where: A folder full of Windows installation CABs.

The Find applet will find which CAB contains explorer.exe.
On WinXP that doesn't seem to work. The string
"explorer.exe" is found only if it's in a text file.

(I don't want to use indexing. I just want it to work.)

Perhaps you need to look in advanced settings...
by default ..."search" is rather limited

 

[HeyBub]

Are there adjustments that can be made to improve
XP search? It seems to be undependable, and text
search doesn't seem to work at all in binary files.
For example, in Win98 I can search for:

Containing Text: explorer.exe
Where: A folder full of Windows installation CABs.

The Find applet will find which CAB contains explorer.exe.
On WinXP that doesn't seem to work. The string
"explorer.exe" is found only if it's in a text file.

(I don't want to use indexing. I just want it to work.)

"Explorer.exe" inside a CAB file looks something like "3cE12Fg" since it's
compressed. You'd have to expand the CAB file then search the results.

 

[mayayana]

"Explorer.exe" inside a CAB file looks something like "3cE12Fg" since it's

compressed. You'd have to expand the CAB file then search the results.

No. I already know this works. As I said,
I can do it in Win98. The file list is in plain
text inside the CAB file. That's part of the
way a CAB header is set up.

 

[mayayana]

Perhaps you need to look in advanced settings...

by default ..."search" is rather limited

I find things like "include hidden files"
and restricting the search by date... I even
find that I have a choice of what file types
to include. But none of those things works.

 

[HeyBub]

No. I already know this works. As I said,
I can do it in Win98. The file list is in plain
text inside the CAB file. That's part of the
way a CAB header is set up.

Okay... Maybe Windows is smart enough to NOT search inside a CAB file
knowing that if one is searching for something other than a file name
there's no chance of finding it.

Try renaming the CAB files to something other than CAB.