Searching with Search Companion

The behavior of the “Search Companion� in XP is different from the equivalent
feature in Win2K.

Win2K simply searches ‘real filenames’ whereas XP seems to search INTO files
which may contain other files in some compressed form – e.g. .cab files.

When I search “Local Hard Drives� it takes only a few seconds to search some
60K files on two of the drives and nearly a minute to search for a name (one
of only 36) on the Q:\ drive. The Q drive has few files but most of them are
over 7GB!

This is very painful. It should take only milleseconds to search Q.

Is there any way to get Search Companion to behave the way the search
function in Win2K works?

Steve

What type of drive is your Q drive? How large and how much free
space does your Q drive have?

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Hope this helps.

Gerry
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FCA
Stourport, England

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"Steve Behman" wrote in message
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The behavior of the "Search Companion" in XP is different from the
equivalent
feature in Win2K.

Win2K simply searches 'real filenames' whereas XP seems to search INTO
files
which may contain other files in some compressed form - e.g. .cab files.

When I search "Local Hard Drives" it takes only a few seconds to search
some
60K files on two of the drives and nearly a minute to search for a name
(one
of only 36) on the Q:\ drive. The Q drive has few files but most of them
are
over 7GB!

This is very painful. It should take only milleseconds to search Q.

Is there any way to get Search Companion to behave the way the search
function in Win2K works?

Hi Stave,

You could try an alternative search utility, like Agent Ransack,
available he

http://www.mythicsoft.com/agentransack/download.aspx

The drive is a 250 GB SATA II drive with about 170 GB free space. The used
space contains ONLY 30 or so files (Acronis TrueImage Backups with a .tib
filetype).

I am not sure how this would affect the behavior of a filename search
utility.

I am the author of the (very old) DOS WHIZ utility and would write a new one
for XP myself but my vision has failed and it is now very difficult to write
code.


"Gerry Cornell" wrote:

Steve

What type of drive is your Q drive? How large and how much free
space does your Q drive have?

--

Hope this helps.

Gerry
~~~~
FCA
Stourport, England

Enquire, plan and execute
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

"Steve Behman" wrote in message
...
The behavior of the "Search Companion" in XP is different from the
equivalent
feature in Win2K.

Win2K simply searches 'real filenames' whereas XP seems to search INTO
files
which may contain other files in some compressed form - e.g. .cab files.

When I search "Local Hard Drives" it takes only a few seconds to search
some
60K files on two of the drives and nearly a minute to search for a name
(one
of only 36) on the Q:\ drive. The Q drive has few files but most of them
are
over 7GB!

This is very painful. It should take only milleseconds to search Q.

Is there any way to get Search Companion to behave the way the search
function in Win2K works?

Steve

Not sure whether this might be relevant but have you tried Disk
Defragmenter?
An 80 gb drive is some size to search.


--

Hope this helps.

Gerry
~~~~
FCA
Stourport, England

Enquire, plan and execute
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

"Steve Behman" wrote in message
...
The drive is a 250 GB SATA II drive with about 170 GB free space. The
used
space contains ONLY 30 or so files (Acronis TrueImage Backups with a .tib
filetype).

I am not sure how this would affect the behavior of a filename search
utility.

I am the author of the (very old) DOS WHIZ utility and would write a new
one
for XP myself but my vision has failed and it is now very difficult to
write
code.


"Gerry Cornell" wrote:

Steve

What type of drive is your Q drive? How large and how much free
space does your Q drive have?

--

Hope this helps.

Gerry
~~~~
FCA
Stourport, England

Enquire, plan and execute
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

"Steve Behman" wrote in message
...
The behavior of the "Search Companion" in XP is different from the
equivalent
feature in Win2K.

Win2K simply searches 'real filenames' whereas XP seems to search INTO
files
which may contain other files in some compressed form - e.g. .cab
files.

When I search "Local Hard Drives" it takes only a few seconds to search
some
60K files on two of the drives and nearly a minute to search for a name
(one
of only 36) on the Q:\ drive. The Q drive has few files but most of
them
are
over 7GB!

This is very painful. It should take only milleseconds to search Q.

Is there any way to get Search Companion to behave the way the search
function in Win2K works?

Thank you!

I was delighted with Agent Ransack and even more so with the 'full fledged'
product FileLocator Pro by the same author. They are both great products
and the latter is well worth it's $25 price.

"Claymore" wrote:


Hi Stave,

You could try an alternative search utility, like Agent Ransack,
available he

http://www.mythicsoft.com/agentransack/download.aspx