search is broken

[Nathan Coast]

Hi,

File system searching is broken. when looking for files
containing a string, windows repeatedly finds no files. I
know there are files containing the strings, I created
them to test the search. This used to work. Is there any
way to reinstall / reset the searching function?

Alternatively I could install something that works like
Cygwin or linux.

cheers

[Doug Knox MS-MVP]

See http://www.dougknox.com/xp/scripts_desc/xp_fix_search.htm for a partial
fix for this situation. Other users are installing Agent Ransack,
www.agentransack.com to get around some of Search's limitations.

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"Nathan Coast" > wrote in message
...
> Hi,
>
> File system searching is broken. when looking for files
> containing a string, windows repeatedly finds no files. I
> know there are files containing the strings, I created
> them to test the search. This used to work. Is there any
> way to reinstall / reset the searching function?
>
> Alternatively I could install something that works like
> Cygwin or linux.
>
> cheers

[Steve Robertson]

Nathan-

You are encountering a well known bug. The fix is a vbs script named:

xp_fix_search_error.vbs

Find it at:

www.dougknox.com

Doug is an MS support guy sometimes watching this newsgroup.

Steve

[Doug Knox MS-MVP]

Actually, I'm not MS Support, Steve. Just a volunteer here, like most of
the other folks :)

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Win 95/98/Me/XP Tweaks and Fixes
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"Steve Robertson" > wrote in message
...
> Nathan-
>
> You are encountering a well known bug. The fix is a vbs script named:
>
> xp_fix_search_error.vbs
>
> Find it at:
>
> www.dougknox.com
>
> Doug is an MS support guy sometimes watching this newsgroup.
>
> Steve
>
>

[Steve Robertson]

>>Actually, I'm not MS Support, Steve. Just a volunteer here, like most of
the other folks :)<<

Oh, interesting! I didn't know.

S