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Re: XP File Search Refuses To Search .LDR Files!
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lugnet.cad.dev
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Mon, 21 Dec 2009 16:58:13 GMT
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In lugnet.cad.dev, Tore Eriksson wrote:
> Sorry for posting slightly off-topic, but the X-Pee thing drives me completely
> insane. I do a file search just like I always have done in previous systems, but
> in XP, the search fuction just refuses to search in .ldr files. I was looking
> for references to the obsolete 13cc.dat, and the occurances in .log files and
> .txt files show up perfectly accurate, but not the .ldr files in the same
> folder. Why? Why? Why??? Do I really have to rename all .ldr files before X-Pee
> bothers to include them in a search???
I know your question has already been answered, but to get rid of the dog, see
here:
http://www.helpwithwindows.com/WindowsXP/tune-20.html
And getting it to search all files is also described here:
http://www.pctools.com/guides/registry/detail/1250/
Note that the above solution should work even if you have indexing turned off.
I'm not sure if the other files are added to the index if indexing is turned on,
or if it manually searches them at the time you perform the search.
--Travis
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| (...) Thanks, Travis, I have already managed to chase that annoying dog away, it was just to right-click on him or so. Maybe I'll turn that whole assistant off, too. Isn't it strange that in the efforts of making the search faster and easier, they (...) (15 years ago, 21-Dec-09, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| Sorry for posting slightly off-topic, but the X-Pee thing drives me completely insane. I do a file search just like I always have done in previous systems, but in XP, the search fuction just refuses to search in .ldr files. I was looking for (...) (15 years ago, 20-Dec-09, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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