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Windows Vista11
I have Vista Business, latest patch.



In Vista Search I specify location: Local Hard Drives (C:), searching

for file "*.837". Search finds one SHORTCUT in my Recent items folder.

That's not right...



I bring up the command prompt and from C: I do "dir/w/s *.837". Guess

what, my files are right there in C:\Users\Me.



WTF Microsoft?!?! Do I have to go back to command line search to find

files now?


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My Advice: disable the search indexing service









"Ninjak on FW" <shawnn@gmail.com>wrote in message



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This is probably a side effect of the "Virtualization" system,



I think that is tech speak for "A faster and more comprehensive way to

lose things".



Also check your hard drive's properties and uncheck "Index this drive"

since that becomes worse than useless too. Slows you down plenty put

still can't find anything :)









Tiberius wrote:

".837" is not a normal file extension, and thus won't be indexed, unless you

add it to the Indexing options.



What happens if you try searching for "ext:.837"? I renamed a file to have

a .837 extension, and search found it immediately.





"Ninjak on FW" <shawnn@gmail.com>wrote in message

"Ninjak on FW" <shawnn@gmail.com>wrote in message

You go to the Advanced Search and check on *Include non-indexed, hidden and

system files*. I too thought that the Vista's Search was painful and

couldn't find any thing, until someone posted about enabling the Include

function on the Advanced Search. Actually Vista's Search is cool and I was

cussing it out for nothing.





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