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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 18:07:17 GMT
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In lugnet.cad.dev, Travis Cobbs wrote:
> 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???
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> I know your question has already been answered, but to get rid of the dog, see
> here:
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> http://www.helpwithwindows.com/WindowsXP/tune-20.html
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> And getting it to search all files is also described here:
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> http://www.pctools.com/guides/registry/detail/1250/
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> 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.
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> --Travis
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 have managed to complicate it so much that a former IT Support is just
about to throw the new PC out through the window in pure frustration? :)
/T
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| (...) Yeah, and the "improvements" in Vista and Windows 7 are, as far as I'm concerned, even worse. Also, I'm not sure how XP behaves, but in Vista/Windows 7 if you have indexing turned on and search new files, it will silently not return any (...) (15 years ago, 21-Dec-09, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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