Problem with the Search function again

[Thomas Corriol]

My search function had always worked fine, until today
where I have discovered that it is not searching in "All
files and folders" properly anymore.

My query is of a simple word, that I want to search for
all files in a specific folder, where all those files
have a different extensions.

I have discovered that it now only search in the files
with an extension it knows (.txt and .inc are the only
files for which I get a result), while before it was
searching all *.* files properly.

And I bloody know I should find more results than that.

This is driving me crazy, could anyone help ?

I am running XP - Home Edition

Thomas

 

[Alan]

Hello Thomas,

The search feature within XP and XP SP1 is quite undependable. Eventually, I
gave up the ghost of trying to fix it with various patches and Registry
edits and downloaded a free program called Agent Ransack from:

http://www.agentransack.com

Maybe with the release of SP2 I'll once again use XP's native search feature
(that's assuming that Microsoft bothers to fix it), but until then, I depend
upon Agent Ransack to find all my files and words within files.

Alan

 

[Guest]

Thanks Alan,

I effectively found this link in a previous post on the
newsgroup...

I think I'll adopt your strategy.

Cheers,

Thomas

 

[Guest]

Try chaning the following setting, I think it will solve this issue

In your Search Companion window
1.Click on “Change Preferencesâ€
2.In Change Preferences, select the indexing service setting option (the text for this option is different depending on whether indexing is enabled or not)
3.Then click on “Change Indexing service settings (Advanced)â€. A new window with name “Indexing Service†is opened
4.In the menu of this window, click on “Action†-> “Propertiesâ€. In the generation tab, make sure “Index files with unknown extensions†is checked

Hope this helps
Thanks
Soni

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