Windows Search problem

[Howard Brazee]

I sometimes have trouble using the Search utility.


For instance, I just went to the directory containing Timepiece.java,
and did a search for Timepiece.java. I found it, and was able to
edit it from the search and cut and paste from the first line:

The first line of Timepiece.java is:
package edu.cusys.javareview;

So I hit back in my search, and searched for
All or part of the file name:
Timepiece.java

A word or phrase in the file:
package


Not case sensitive (although I cut and pasted "package").

Search found no results to display.

Why does pasting text which I found in the file into the search make
it so that I can't find the file? Nothing else was changed?

(I discovered this problem while trying to search for other .java
files that used a command I wanted to plagiarize), and simplified it
for the test above.

 

[Bob I]

Use Agent Ransack instead.

 

[Howard Brazee]

Use Agent Ransack instead.

This is my work computer where software has to go through channels and
approved before someone from PC support installs it.

 

[Bob I]

Explain the impact on your job performance and ask to have it approved
to be installed.

 

[Howard Brazee]

I was told to use the method #2 from
http://www.petri.co.il/windows_xp_search_bug.htm

Trouble is, my computer doesn't give me the "click With Indexing
Service" option. I went to another computer and that option was
there.

I looked at my C: drive, and it has "allow indexing" checked.

 

[Howard Brazee]

PC support came up, logged on to administrator and set
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\ControlSet\Control\ContentIndex to 1.

That solved my problem.


Why in the world is there a registry setting that gives search a
choice of sometimes not working?