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windows xp search containing text problems

i've been told by one of my officemates that the windows xp search containing text does not work with all file types.  of course mr. skeptical always verify it and was surprised that indeed it does not work for all file types, even with C# cs files!  just sharing!

Posted Oct 29 2007, 12:07 AM by jokiz
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Robert Locke wrote re: windows xp search containing text problems
on 10-28-2007 9:54 AM

It is indeed broken.  This issue has driven me to the point of insanity on more than one occasion.  My solution was to install a windows port of all my favorite Unix tools so that I could use egrep, find and friends:

unxutils.sourceforge.net

=)

jokiz wrote re: windows xp search containing text problems
on 10-29-2007 8:01 AM

good to hear from you again robert!  i'm not a unix guy so couldn't relate, but thanks for posting the link. anyway, i've read something that there is a registry hack to include other file extensions aside from the default one, what a tedious way.

KB searcher wrote re: windows xp search containing text problems
on 12-28-2007 9:05 AM

See kb 309173 "Using the "A word or phrase in the file" search criterion may not work" to fix XP and Windows 2003 at support.microsoft.com/.../309173 .  Vista can also be changed via the Indexing Options control panel, advanced, UAC prompt, File Types tab, add new extension.

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