Problem with the Search function again

[Thomas Corriol]

My search function had always worked fine, until today
where I have discovered that it is not searching in "All
files and folders" properly anymore.

My query is of a simple word, that I want to search for
all files in a specific folder, where all those files
have a different extensions.

I have discovered that it now only search in the files
with an extension it knows (.txt and .inc are the only
files for which I get a result), while before it was
searching all *.* files properly.

And I bloody know I should find more results than that.

This is driving me crazy, could anyone help ?

I am running XP - Home Edition

Thomas

[Alan]

Hello Thomas,

The search feature within XP and XP SP1 is quite undependable. Eventually, I
gave up the ghost of trying to fix it with various patches and Registry
edits and downloaded a free program called Agent Ransack from:

http://www.agentransack.com

Maybe with the release of SP2 I'll once again use XP's native search feature
(that's assuming that Microsoft bothers to fix it), but until then, I depend
upon Agent Ransack to find all my files and words within files.

Alan

"Thomas Corriol" > wrote in message
...
> My search function had always worked fine, until today
> where I have discovered that it is not searching in "All
> files and folders" properly anymore.
>
> My query is of a simple word, that I want to search for
> all files in a specific folder, where all those files
> have a different extensions.
>
> I have discovered that it now only search in the files
> with an extension it knows (.txt and .inc are the only
> files for which I get a result), while before it was
> searching all *.* files properly.
>
> And I bloody know I should find more results than that.
>
> This is driving me crazy, could anyone help ?
>
> I am running XP - Home Edition
>
> Thomas

Thanks Alan,

I effectively found this link in a previous post on the
newsgroup...

I think I'll adopt your strategy.

Cheers,

Thomas

>-----Original Message-----
>Hello Thomas,
>
>The search feature within XP and XP SP1 is quite
undependable. Eventually, I
>gave up the ghost of trying to fix it with various
patches and Registry
>edits and downloaded a free program called Agent Ransack
from:
>
> http://www.agentransack.com
>
>Maybe with the release of SP2 I'll once again use XP's
native search feature
>(that's assuming that Microsoft bothers to fix it), but
until then, I depend
>upon Agent Ransack to find all my files and words within
files.
>
> Alan