Indexing question

[Guest]

Does anyone know anything about the Windows XP indexing service?

I am trying to use Indexing to search the contents of a bunch of SQR files
for specific words, but Search will not look in SQR files -- it *will* look
in TXT files or DOC files or whatever, but not in SQR files (even though the
contents of the SQR files is just a bunch of plain text). In order to get
the search to run correctly and return good results I have to change the file
extension.

Does anyone know how I can get Search to search in specific file types?
Please, please, please help me... I've been working on this for days and it's
frustrating me to death.

-LB

ps -- if I'm posting in the wrong place please let me know -- I couldn't
find any more appropriate NG.

 

[Guest]

Open the Search Companion>change preferences>change files and folders
behavior> and tick the Advanced settings for additional search parameters.

 

[Guest]

Thank you, but that's not really what I'm looking for... I can turn on
Advanced parameters, which gives me more options of where to look, what to
look for, etc., but it doesn't have anywhere to specify file types to search.
(the specific-string query still fails here).

I suspect what I'm looking for may lay outside of the actual Search box
(like in the Indexing service itself, although I can't find anything there
either).

Anyone else? Pleeeeease?

 

[Sarge]

Does anyone know how I can get Search to search in specific file
types? Please, please, please help me... I've been working on this
for days and it's frustrating me to death.

See if this helps:

http://www.kellys-korner-xp.com/xp_s.htm

Scroll down to the search section.

 

[Alex Nichol]

Does anyone know anything about the Windows XP indexing service?

I am trying to use Indexing to search the contents of a bunch of SQR files
for specific words, but Search will not look in SQR files -- it *will* look
in TXT files or DOC files or whatever, but not in SQR files (even though the
contents of the SQR files is just a bunch of plain text). In order to get
the search to run correctly and return good results I have to change the file
extension.

Does anyone know how I can get Search to search in specific file types?
Please, please, please help me... I've been working on this for days and it's
frustrating me to death.

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). AFAIK the 'indexing' is confined to
these file types too. 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.

This would be for .sqr; a type I do not have, so I don't know if it
already has a Persistent Handler to foul up. First check with a run of
regedit,exe and look in HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\.sqr

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.

- - start
REGEDIT4

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


- - end

 

[Guest]

That worked *perfectly*. Thank you *so much* for your help... this has been
driving me crazy for days! This was a big load off my mind.

Thanks again!!

-LB

Does anyone know anything about the Windows XP indexing service?

I am trying to use Indexing to search the contents of a bunch of SQR files
for specific words, but Search will not look in SQR files -- it *will* look
in TXT files or DOC files or whatever, but not in SQR files (even though the
contents of the SQR files is just a bunch of plain text). In order to get
the search to run correctly and return good results I have to change the file
extension.

Does anyone know how I can get Search to search in specific file types?
Please, please, please help me... I've been working on this for days and it's
frustrating me to death.

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). AFAIK the 'indexing' is confined to
these file types too. 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.

This would be for .sqr; a type I do not have, so I don't know if it
already has a Persistent Handler to foul up. First check with a run of
regedit,exe and look in HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\.sqr

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.

- - start
REGEDIT4

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


- - end