From: John Beckett 

"Frank Haber"  wrote in message
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> Suggestions: W for WordPad ... and an option for "open in user
editor" for
> unregistered filetypes).

You can put whatever you want on the menu! And, you can choose what columns
you would like to see (DocAuthor, DocPageCount, DocSubject etc).

I have the Vim editor as the first action, which makes it the default. If I
select a file and double-click or press Enter, the file opens in Vim.

Run Search and right-click the main window, select 'Open Settings File'. It
opens the ini file and you can edit the menu to whatever you want. A GUI to
configure this would be nice, but I imagine that people who would
appreciate Search could grapple with the ini file.

Using the Windows Start menu, under All Programs, Accessories, right-click
Wordpad and choose Properties. Copy the path under Target. Paste that into
a blank line under the [Actions] section of the Search ini file and edit to
look something like this:

Wordpad=W,"C:\Program Files\Windows NT\Accessories\wordpad.exe"

You could replace 'W' with 'sp' to press Space to run Wordpad. Also, quotes
are not needed, so you could have: Wordpad=sp,C:\Program Files\Windows
NT\Accessories\wordpad.exe

> There's a 400-hit max, right?

The ini file has the 400 value. Use Open Settings File, then change:

MaxRecords=1000

The program only accepts from 50 to 32000 for this value. I have seen a
search return around 8000 hits in a couple of seconds on a fast machine.

> can I trust Notepad now for ~100k files?

I believe so. Just for laughs, I opened a 12MB file in Notepad. Only 4
seconds on a fast computer.

> Why did install need a reboot?  The user needs VB6 runtimes, right?

Sorry - no idea. There's very little in the program, and I didn't think the
VB6 runtimes needed a reboot??

Let me know if you have any issues or questions.

John

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