Lost Serch ability in windows XP.

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In all past versions of Windows I have been able to use
the serch for containing text, and find data located in
ASCII text files were the Extension of the text file
is .atm.

In XP it seams that the "Word or phrase in the file"
option of search no longer checks any files with an ATM
extension. If I change my ASCII file from .atm to .txt
the search finds the data I'm expecting.

Could someone explaine why the search functions of XP will
not look in files with .atm extensions. Or Give
instructions on how to set the search to look into .atm
files.

Thank you,
Karl Freudenreich
 
Windows XP search for All files and folders does NOT find all files when you
use a word or phrase?
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In all past versions of Windows I have been able to use
the serch for containing text, and find data located in
ASCII text files were the Extension of the text file
is .atm.

In XP it seams that the "Word or phrase in the file"
option of search no longer checks any files with an ATM
extension. If I change my ASCII file from .atm to .txt
the search finds the data I'm expecting.

Could someone explaine why the search functions of XP will
not look in files with .atm extensions. Or Give
instructions on how to set the search to look into .atm
files.

Thank you,
Karl Freudenreich
 
Karl,

There is a free alternative, called Agent Ransack, that does a good job
of searching. The XP search engine has problems.
 
Karl said:
In all past versions of Windows I have been able to use
the serch for containing text, and find data located in
ASCII text files were the Extension of the text file
is .atm.

In XP it seams that the "Word or phrase in the file"
option of search no longer checks any files with an ATM
extension. If I change my ASCII file from .atm to .txt
the search finds the data I'm expecting.
Click to expand...

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 .atm - but check the registry first with regedit.exe to make
sure it does not already have a PersistentHandler key under
HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\.atm
(I don't have the type installed myself)

Modify for other extensions, with care.

- - start
REGEDIT4

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


- - end
 
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