Searching For Files

[Paul Hodges]

The matches returned by windows 2000 search assistant seem a little quirky
compared to windows xp. This came to light when after installing windows
2000 slipstreamed with sp4 and applying all the fixes in a script. Windows
update reported that the js56nen.exe jscript patch had not been applied, so
I went to check the version of jscript.dll and search assistant couldn't
find it when I typed its name in full.

After a bit of playing around comparing windows xp and windows 2000 I got
the following. Hide protected system files is disabled and show hidden files
is enabled. W2K does have search subfolders set in advanced options although
this is the default. XP has search hidden files and folders set, there is no
equivalent option I can see in w2k.

1. Just the letter J Windows 2000 returns 42 files Windows XP returns
2186. Windows 2000 returns no matches in winnt or winnt\system32 as opposed
to XP. Only XP therefore found jscript.dll

2. J* Both 2K and XP return around 40 files both found jscript.dll in
system32 and in dllcache.

3. The word jscript
W2K returns no matches. XP returns jscript.dll in system32 and
system32\dllcache along with a few other files.

4. jscript*
w2k returns the 2 jscript dlls. xp returns 3, the 2 jscript.dlls and the
jscript help file.

5. jscript.dll

This one has me completely perplexed. When typing in the EXACT FILENAME
w2k returns no matches ? XP returns quite a few(mostly google searches) but
includes the 2 jscript.dlls

6. jscript.dll*

W2K finds the 2 occurrences of the dlls in winnt and winnt\system32 as does
XP.

Is there some bug in the w2k search engine, or is 2K designed to behave
differentlly. At the moment I'm not filled with confidence at finding all
the files I'm looking for.

Best Regards

 

[DL]

jscript.dll returns two hits on my win2k sys using Start\Search\Files or
Folders
Indexing service enabled

 

[Paul Hodges]

Thanks for the reply. I don't currently have the indexing service running on
either xp or 2k, I'll try enabling it on 2k and see if the results are any
different. Its certainly a strange one.
I'm wondering if its a permissions problem. I know there have been
permissions problems with unattended intalls of 2k but I thought they were
fixed by sp4.

If I actually change the search in option using the browse feature to the
system32 folder, it finds it every time.

 

[Torgeir Bakken \(MVP\)]

The matches returned by windows 2000 search assistant seem a little quirky
compared to windows xp. This came to light when after installing windows
2000 slipstreamed with sp4 and applying all the fixes in a script. Windows
update reported that the js56nen.exe jscript patch had not been applied, so
I went to check the version of jscript.dll and search assistant couldn't
find it when I typed its name in full.

Hi

See if the free search utility Agent Ransack works better for you,
I use it instead of the builtin search (especially on WinXP, where
Microsoft has almost destroyed the builtin search if you ask me).

Download it from here:
http://www.mythicsoft.com/agentransack/default.aspx

 

[Paul Hodges]

After playing around a bit more trying to get all the warnings and errors
out of the system eventlogs for my unsttedended install which related to
..net framework 1.1 and directx (which generated a string of windows file
protection errors) I removed these 2 items from the installation script and
reinstalled.

Searched worked fine when entering the whole string of jscript.dll.

I then installed directx 9.0b and still ok.
However when I installed the .net framework 1.1 from the windows update
site, (previously I had used the download from the windows catalogue so
thought I'd use windows update as a double check), the problem reappeared.
So looks like its down to .NET

Does anyone else have the .net framework 1.1 installed and experiencing
search problems ?