The Search Facility in Windows xp Professional

[Guest]

In Windows xp Professional, the search facility
accessible via Start->Search, which used to work fine,
one day stopped finding files. Every search now
yields "Search is complete. There are no results to
display," even though files actually are present on the
selected appropriate drive. How can the search facility
be made to work again?

 

[Torgeir Bakken (MVP)]

In Windows xp Professional, the search facility
accessible via Start->Search, which used to work fine,
one day stopped finding files. Every search now
yields "Search is complete. There are no results to
display," even though files actually are present on the
selected appropriate drive. How can the search facility
be made to work again?

Hi

I have given up the builtin search in WinXP a long time ago. I use the free
Agent Ransack instead to search for files...

http://www.agentransack.com/default.aspx

 

[CynthiaSweets]

-----Original Message-----

In Windows xp Professional, the search facility
accessible via Start->Search, which used to work fine,
one day stopped finding files. Every search now
yields "Search is complete. There are no results to
display," even though files actually are present on the
selected appropriate drive. How can the search facility
be made to work again?
.

Try this:

In the "Search Companion" side bar of the Windows
Explorer screen, select "All files and folders." Then,
select "More advanced options." Finally, be certain that
the "Search subfolders" check box is checked.

There is a possibility that some program on your system
may have remotely "unchecked" the option in order to do
its job, and then just never bothered to set it back
(owing to a careless programmer, perhaps?), which would
explain why your search facility once worked and then
stopped working.

Let me know whether it works now--you've got me curious.

 

[Guest]

-----Original Message-----

Try this:

In the "Search Companion" side bar of the Windows
Explorer screen, select "All files and folders." Then,
select "More advanced options." Finally, be certain that
the "Search subfolders" check box is checked.

There is a possibility that some program on your system
may have remotely "unchecked" the option in order to do
its job, and then just never bothered to set it back
(owing to a careless programmer, perhaps?), which would
explain why your search facility once worked and then
stopped working.

Let me know whether it works now--you've got me curious.
.

Yes, CynthiaSweets, that was the solution. Thank you SO
much. I can't believe that it was just a checkbox that
needed to be checked. Thank you!