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Windows Explorer Search in WinXP
Hi all,
Until now I have used Windows 2000, and these days I switched to Windows XP SP2. Now I'm having the following problem with the Windows Explorer Search in WinXP (I'll describe the steps to reproduce): - create a directory eg MY_DIR - create in this dir a file momo.txt in which write the text "lolo" - make a copy of momo.txt in the same dir and rename it to momo.pm - use Windows Explorer to make a search into MY_DIR directory for all files that contain the "lolo" string = even if the content of momo.txt and momo.pm is identical, only momo.txt is found. In Windows 2000 this was not a problem. I used TweakUI to change the search to be like Windows 2k, but this doesn't really affect the actual search. How can I change the behaviour, so that in the above scenario both files to be found as containing the "lolo" string? Thx, Viv |
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Windows Explorer Search in WinXP
Viviana Vc wrote:
Hi all, Until now I have used Windows 2000, and these days I switched to Windows XP SP2. Now I'm having the following problem with the Windows Explorer Search in WinXP (I'll describe the steps to reproduce): - create a directory eg MY_DIR - create in this dir a file momo.txt in which write the text "lolo" - make a copy of momo.txt in the same dir and rename it to momo.pm - use Windows Explorer to make a search into MY_DIR directory for all files that contain the "lolo" string = even if the content of momo.txt and momo.pm is identical, only momo.txt is found. In Windows 2000 this was not a problem. I used TweakUI to change the search to be like Windows 2k, but this doesn't really affect the actual search. How can I change the behaviour, so that in the above scenario both files to be found as containing the "lolo" string? Thx, Viv Are you renaming the file momo.pm, or momo.pm.txt? If you are acually renaming it momo.pm (meaning you go in to notepad and save it with the option "all files" or you have hide extensions turned off) you are changing the extension of this file to .pm, and windows will not search it for text because it does not know it is a text file. Perhaps this works in 2000, i don't know, but I doubt it. XP will only search files it knows are text files. |
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Windows Explorer Search in WinXP
Viviana Vc wrote:
Hi all, Until now I have used Windows 2000, and these days I switched to Windows XP SP2. Now I'm having the following problem with the Windows Explorer Search in WinXP (I'll describe the steps to reproduce): - create a directory eg MY_DIR - create in this dir a file momo.txt in which write the text "lolo" - make a copy of momo.txt in the same dir and rename it to momo.pm - use Windows Explorer to make a search into MY_DIR directory for all files that contain the "lolo" string = even if the content of momo.txt and momo.pm is identical, only momo.txt is found. In Windows 2000 this was not a problem. I used TweakUI to change the search to be like Windows 2k, but this doesn't really affect the actual search. How can I change the behaviour, so that in the above scenario both files to be found as containing the "lolo" string? Thx, Viv It appears to be dependant on the file extension. If you change .PM to .DOC or .HTM or .JS it will find the text. When asked to find a text string, it looks like XP only searches files it expects to contain text. Even if you associate a .PM file with Notepad the search still fails. Somebody else will know more about it I guess. Major Tom. |
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"Major Tom" wrote in message ... Viviana Vc wrote: Hi all, Until now I have used Windows 2000, and these days I switched to Windows XP SP2. Now I'm having the following problem with the Windows Explorer Search in WinXP (I'll describe the steps to reproduce): - create a directory eg MY_DIR - create in this dir a file momo.txt in which write the text "lolo" - make a copy of momo.txt in the same dir and rename it to momo.pm - use Windows Explorer to make a search into MY_DIR directory for all files that contain the "lolo" string = even if the content of momo.txt and momo.pm is identical, only momo.txt is found. In Windows 2000 this was not a problem. I used TweakUI to change the search to be like Windows 2k, but this doesn't really affect the actual search. How can I change the behaviour, so that in the above scenario both files to be found as containing the "lolo" string? Thx, Viv It appears to be dependant on the file extension. If you change .PM to .DOC or .HTM or .JS it will find the text. When asked to find a text string, it looks like XP only searches files it expects to contain text. Even if you associate a .PM file with Notepad the search still fails. Somebody else will know more about it I guess. After testing it myself, I reached the same conclusion. I didn't test it with the indexing service turned on though. I don't know if that would make a difference. |
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Windows Explorer Search in WinXP
All TweakUI does is allow you you to use Classic Search, gets rid of the
cartoon crap. Read this. Windows® XP - Search Problems http://www.dougknox.com/xp/tips/xp_bad_search.htm Then get this. xp_persisthandler.vbs - Enable XP's "Search" to find text in files. © Doug Knox - rev 2/5/2002 http://www.dougknox.com/xp/scripts_d...fix_search.htm More information here. Using the "A word or phrase in the file" search criterion may not work http://support.microsoft.com/kb/309173 -- Hope this helps. Let us know. Wes MS-MVP Windows Shell/User In , Viviana Vc hunted and pecked: Hi all, Until now I have used Windows 2000, and these days I switched to Windows XP SP2. Now I'm having the following problem with the Windows Explorer Search in WinXP (I'll describe the steps to reproduce): - create a directory eg MY_DIR - create in this dir a file momo.txt in which write the text "lolo" - make a copy of momo.txt in the same dir and rename it to momo.pm - use Windows Explorer to make a search into MY_DIR directory for all files that contain the "lolo" string = even if the content of momo.txt and momo.pm is identical, only momo.txt is found. In Windows 2000 this was not a problem. I used TweakUI to change the search to be like Windows 2k, but this doesn't really affect the actual search. How can I change the behaviour, so that in the above scenario both files to be found as containing the "lolo" string? Thx, Viv |
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I tried also with indexing service on, but still didn't work. This is
pretty annoying as I can't trust anymore the Windows Explorer search. On Wed, 2 Aug 2006 15:13:50 -0400, "Sinner" wrote : "Major Tom" wrote in message ... Viviana Vc wrote: Hi all, Until now I have used Windows 2000, and these days I switched to Windows XP SP2. Now I'm having the following problem with the Windows Explorer Search in WinXP (I'll describe the steps to reproduce): - create a directory eg MY_DIR - create in this dir a file momo.txt in which write the text "lolo" - make a copy of momo.txt in the same dir and rename it to momo.pm - use Windows Explorer to make a search into MY_DIR directory for all files that contain the "lolo" string = even if the content of momo.txt and momo.pm is identical, only momo.txt is found. In Windows 2000 this was not a problem. I used TweakUI to change the search to be like Windows 2k, but this doesn't really affect the actual search. How can I change the behaviour, so that in the above scenario both files to be found as containing the "lolo" string? Thx, Viv It appears to be dependant on the file extension. If you change .PM to .DOC or .HTM or .JS it will find the text. When asked to find a text string, it looks like XP only searches files it expects to contain text. Even if you associate a .PM file with Notepad the search still fails. Somebody else will know more about it I guess. After testing it myself, I reached the same conclusion. I didn't test it with the indexing service turned on though. I don't know if that would make a difference. |
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Chris --
This works indeed in Windows 2k, as actuallly stated by MS article: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/309173 "In Microsoft Windows 2000 and earlier versions of Windows, all files are searched for the content that you specify. Windows XP does not search all file to enhance the performance of searching and to avoid extraneous results." Wesley -- THX a lot for the links you sent me. At the first glance it looked like there is no way out, meaning no way to set the behaviour like in Win2k, as it looks like you have to set some registry stuff for each file type you want, but I want _all_. But in the end I did what's written in: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/309173 - "Method 2" which seems to be exactly what I want: Win2k behaviour, meaning searching _all_ files, not just the ones specified in the registry. After doing this, in the sample above the momo.pm is found. Thx again Viv On Wed, 2 Aug 2006 16:32:56 -0600, "Wesley Vogel" wrote : All TweakUI does is allow you you to use Classic Search, gets rid of the cartoon crap. Read this. Windows® XP - Search Problems http://www.dougknox.com/xp/tips/xp_bad_search.htm Then get this. xp_persisthandler.vbs - Enable XP's "Search" to find text in files. © Doug Knox - rev 2/5/2002 http://www.dougknox.com/xp/scripts_d...fix_search.htm More information here. Using the "A word or phrase in the file" search criterion may not work http://support.microsoft.com/kb/309173 |
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Windows Explorer Search in WinXP
On Wed, 02 Aug 2006 18:25:46 +0200, Viviana Vc
wrote in (!!!) [microsoft.public.windowsxp.basics, microsoft.public.windowsxp.configuration_manage, microsoft.public.windowsxp.general, alt.os.windows.xp, alt.os.windows-xp, microsoft.public.windowsxp.customize,] alt.windows-xp: Until now I have used Windows 2000, and these days I switched to Windows XP SP2. Now I'm having the following problem with the Windows Explorer Search in WinXP (I'll describe the steps to reproduce): - create a directory eg MY_DIR - create in this dir a file momo.txt in which write the text "lolo" - make a copy of momo.txt in the same dir and rename it to momo.pm - use Windows Explorer to make a search into MY_DIR directory for all files that contain the "lolo" string = even if the content of momo.txt and momo.pm is identical, only momo.txt is found. In Windows 2000 this was not a problem. I used TweakUI to change the search to be like Windows 2k, but this doesn't really affect the actual search. How can I change the behaviour, so that in the above scenario both files to be found as containing the "lolo" string? Not reproducible here (NT5.1-SP2, fully patched, indexing disabled), both files are listed as found. [F'up set to ng where found.] -- Michael Bednarek http://mbednarek.com/ "POST NO BILLS" |
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Windows Explorer Search in WinXP
Viviana Vc wrote:
I tried also with indexing service on, but still didn't work. This is pretty annoying as I can't trust anymore the Windows Explorer search. You can get it to work with a one line registry hack. If you are not comfortable editing the registry do this: Create a blank text document, copy and paste this: Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00 [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Contro l\ContentIndex] "FilterFilesWithUnknownExtensions"=dword:00000 001 Close the document, change extension from TXT to REG, right-click and select ' Merge '. (To undo, change the 1 to a 0 in the last line.) Major Tom. |
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Windows Explorer Search in WinXP
Michael Bednarek wrote:
On Wed, 02 Aug 2006 18:25:46 +0200, Viviana Vc wrote in (!!!) [microsoft.public.windowsxp.basics, microsoft.public.windowsxp.configuration_manage, microsoft.public.windowsxp.general, alt.os.windows.xp, alt.os.windows-xp, microsoft.public.windowsxp.customize,] alt.windows-xp: Until now I have used Windows 2000, and these days I switched to Windows XP SP2. Now I'm having the following problem with the Windows Explorer Search in WinXP (I'll describe the steps to reproduce): - create a directory eg MY_DIR - create in this dir a file momo.txt in which write the text "lolo" - make a copy of momo.txt in the same dir and rename it to momo.pm - use Windows Explorer to make a search into MY_DIR directory for all files that contain the "lolo" string = even if the content of momo.txt and momo.pm is identical, only momo.txt is found. In Windows 2000 this was not a problem. I used TweakUI to change the search to be like Windows 2k, but this doesn't really affect the actual search. How can I change the behaviour, so that in the above scenario both files to be found as containing the "lolo" string? Not reproducible here (NT5.1-SP2, fully patched, indexing disabled), both files are listed as found. [F'up set to ng where found.] Groups snipped by usenet nazi Michael Bednarek restored. |
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Windows Explorer Search in WinXP
Thx Tom,
I actually followd the steps from: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/309173 - "Method 2" and now everything seems to work as Win2k. Viv On Thu, 3 Aug 2006 16:35:33 +0100, "Major Tom" wrote : Viviana Vc wrote: I tried also with indexing service on, but still didn't work. This is pretty annoying as I can't trust anymore the Windows Explorer search. You can get it to work with a one line registry hack. If you are not comfortable editing the registry do this: Create a blank text document, copy and paste this: Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00 [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Contro l\ContentIndex] "FilterFilesWithUnknownExtensions"=dword:000000 01 Close the document, change extension from TXT to REG, right-click and select ' Merge '. (To undo, change the 1 to a 0 in the last line.) Major Tom. |
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"Major Tom" wrote in message ... Viviana Vc wrote: I tried also with indexing service on, but still didn't work. This is pretty annoying as I can't trust anymore the Windows Explorer search. You can get it to work with a one line registry hack. If you are not comfortable editing the registry do this: Create a blank text document, copy and paste this: Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00 [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Contro l\ContentIndex] "FilterFilesWithUnknownExtensions"=dword:00000 001 Close the document, change extension from TXT to REG, right-click and select ' Merge '. Excellent fix. |
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Keep having fun, Viv. ;-)
-- Hope this helps. Let us know. Wes MS-MVP Windows Shell/User In , Viviana Vc hunted and pecked: Wesley -- THX a lot for the links you sent me. At the first glance it looked like there is no way out, meaning no way to set the behaviour like in Win2k, as it looks like you have to set some registry stuff for each file type you want, but I want _all_. But in the end I did what's written in: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/309173 - "Method 2" which seems to be exactly what I want: Win2k behaviour, meaning searching _all_ files, not just the ones specified in the registry. After doing this, in the sample above the momo.pm is found. Thx again Viv On Wed, 2 Aug 2006 16:32:56 -0600, "Wesley Vogel" wrote : All TweakUI does is allow you you to use Classic Search, gets rid of the cartoon crap. Read this. Windows® XP - Search Problems http://www.dougknox.com/xp/tips/xp_bad_search.htm Then get this. xp_persisthandler.vbs - Enable XP's "Search" to find text in files. © Doug Knox - rev 2/5/2002 http://www.dougknox.com/xp/scripts_d...fix_search.htm More information here. Using the "A word or phrase in the file" search criterion may not work http://support.microsoft.com/kb/309173 |
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Sinner wrote:
"Major Tom" wrote in message ... Viviana Vc wrote: I tried also with indexing service on, but still didn't work. This is pretty annoying as I can't trust anymore the Windows Explorer search. You can get it to work with a one line registry hack. If you are not comfortable editing the registry do this: Create a blank text document, copy and paste this: Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00 [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Contro l\ContentIndex] "FilterFilesWithUnknownExtensions"=dword:00000 001 Close the document, change extension from TXT to REG, right-click and select ' Merge '. Excellent fix. Just between you and me I pinched it from here! http://www.sellsbrothers.com/tools/ :-) Major Tom. |
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