From: "Gary Britt" 

I avoid that by using ZtreeWin (http://www.ztree.com/html/ztreewin.htm)
which is a win32 console app (xtree like looking but with direct Long File
Name, Win32 API Support, continuously improved, very cheap, and an
unbelievable number of enhanced features.  There are many things you can do
with it to manage files and disks quickly and easily that just can't be
done from windows explorer.  Very popular with many network admin guys. 
Free to try a fully functional version, and not a big download.

It shows all files and never hides any.  It shows all file extensions.  You
can quickly bring into a group window all files that meet certain criteria,
in every directory on a single disk or in every directory on every disk.
You can then perform operations on these files like rename, delete, search
for hex or text strings, you name it.  No click click click, and you don't
have to tell it twice.

Gary

"Antti Kurenniemi"  wrote in
message news:42972c7c{at}w3.nls.net...
> "Robert G Lewis"  wrote in message
> news:4296bc3a{at}w3.nls.net...
> >> Whoa there old champ, you can't be serious about XP! I mean, it has
this
> >> reeeeaally cute dog in the search dialog that sniffs around the place
> >> when you do a search, you can't call that "nothing
worthwile"!?!
> >>
> >>
> >> Antti Kurenniemi
> >> (in other words: I pretty much agree . Oh, and it's
a bummer about
the
> >> db filesystem, that one really seemed like an interesting idea...)
> >>
> >>
> >
> > Geo is waiting for the cute sheep
> >
> > Maybe its a sheepdog ?
>
> Well it's just about as usefull as a sheep for finding files on my
computer,
> so could be...
>
>
> Antti Kurenniemi
> (it's one of the really annoying things in XP: you have to
> click-click-click-click all around the place to tell the stupid thing
"yes,
> I really want you to find the file even if it is a protected operating
> system file, or a hidden file, or whatever type, just find it")
>
>

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