Find any file containing a string?

**Curious[_5_]**

John the indexing feature in Vistas allows you to do exactly what you want.
"Ken Blake, MVP" wrote in message
...
On Fri, 17 Oct 2008 02:46:00 -0700, John
wrote:

If vista is so good why should someone have to buy extra software to do
simple tasks like look for a file? I am ****ed that I have to buy more
soft
ware to run my compter after all I did have a good serch program in my
old
Windows XP. It work good too. Vista is driving me nuts.

Interesting that you feel that way, but many of us have a different
opinion. Personally, I greatly prefer Vista's search facility to XP's.

--
Ken Blake, Microsoft MVP - Windows Desktop Experience
Please Reply to the Newsgroup

**Jim[_49_]**

On Fri, 17 Oct 2008 02:43:01 -0700, John
wrote:

If vista is so good why should someone have to buy extra software to do
simple tasks like look for a file?

"+Bob+" wrote:

On Mon, 6 Oct 2008 17:42:29 -0600, "Calab" wrote:

So, after that change, Vista will even search .DLL and .EXE files to see if
they contain "TSID"?

Best choice: Install "Agent Ransack" (google it). Use that instead.

Disable the windows indexing service for good measure.

AgentRansack is free .

**Clive Lumb**

"Ken Blake, MVP" a écrit dans le message
de news: ...
On Fri, 17 Oct 2008 02:46:00 -0700, John
wrote:

If vista is so good why should someone have to buy extra software to do
simple tasks like look for a file? I am ****ed that I have to buy more
soft
ware to run my compter after all I did have a good serch program in my
old
Windows XP. It work good too. Vista is driving me nuts.

Interesting that you feel that way, but many of us have a different
opinion. Personally, I greatly prefer Vista's search facility to XP's.

Sorry, but I have to disagree.
In a corporate environement, managing over 200 GB of archives from old
users/companies I often have to search for strings in ALL files in a branch
of the archives. WDS/Vista will not do this realiably.

Try searching inside pdf files for words that you know are there on a folder
that has not been indexed.
Same with VB.net files - it never finds anything.

Thread Tools
Show Printable Version Email this Page
Display Modes
Linear Mode Switch to Hybrid Mode Switch to Threaded Mode