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It looks like the registry entry for nodrives can change the Windows
XP search gui. (Start Menu>Search>Files and Folders>Look in
The available selections for "look in" will be limited when nodrives
is added to the registry. The only available search locations will be
My Documents, My Pictures, My Music, Desktop, and My Computer. The
"browse..." location will not be available.
We are running Windows XP Pro SP1 (and recently SP2). Our desktop
theme is Classic, we use the classic Start Menu, and under Folder
Options we use Windows Classic Folders. Regarding searches: I turn
off the animated search dog in the search window and I attempt to
enable the most advanced search options available. (None-the-less the
search gui is still not quite equivalent to the usuable,
understandable search gui in Windows 2000.)
Recently "nodrives" was broken on several machines. I'm not sure
which application or activity caused several machines to loose the
nodrives entry but it effected about 1/3 of our machines. This gave us
mixed results: (1) Of course I was unhappy that our administrative
partition was now visable to folks who might inadvertantly corrupt it,
(2) but it was good to see that the search "look in" options came
back.
nodrives can can prohibit one partition from view in windows explorer,
but the search gui overcompensates and prohibits all partitions from
view.
XP search gui. (Start Menu>Search>Files and Folders>Look in
The available selections for "look in" will be limited when nodrives
is added to the registry. The only available search locations will be
My Documents, My Pictures, My Music, Desktop, and My Computer. The
"browse..." location will not be available.
We are running Windows XP Pro SP1 (and recently SP2). Our desktop
theme is Classic, we use the classic Start Menu, and under Folder
Options we use Windows Classic Folders. Regarding searches: I turn
off the animated search dog in the search window and I attempt to
enable the most advanced search options available. (None-the-less the
search gui is still not quite equivalent to the usuable,
understandable search gui in Windows 2000.)
Recently "nodrives" was broken on several machines. I'm not sure
which application or activity caused several machines to loose the
nodrives entry but it effected about 1/3 of our machines. This gave us
mixed results: (1) Of course I was unhappy that our administrative
partition was now visable to folks who might inadvertantly corrupt it,
(2) but it was good to see that the search "look in" options came
back.
nodrives can can prohibit one partition from view in windows explorer,
but the search gui overcompensates and prohibits all partitions from
view.