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to: Geo.
from: Robert Comer
date: 2007-01-26 10:59:28
subject: Re: Search for file by name

From: "Robert Comer" 

It didn't help. (I had tried that before.)

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Bob Comer


"Geo."  wrote in message
news:45b94cfe$1{at}w3.nls.net...
> use advanced search and check the checkbox to search everywhere.
>
> Geo.
>
> "Robert Comer"  wrote in message
> news:45b50d33{at}w3.nls.net...
>> I'm not running Vista right now, but if I remember correctly, it wasn't
>> searching everywhere on the drive, just certain places. (and it was
>> *slow* if not indexed.)
>>
>> --
>> Bob Comer
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>> "Rich"  wrote in message news:45b503e6{at}w3.nls.net...
>>   Exactly what is your problem?
>>
>> Rich
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>>  "Robert Comer"  wrote in message
>> news:45b4b066$1{at}w3.nls.net...
>>  >   With Windows Vista or Windows Desktop Search or something else?
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>>  Windows Vista.
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>>  >The Windows search components have no problem searching by name.
>>
>>  It sure does here...
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>>  --
>>  Bob Comer
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>>  "Rich"  wrote in message news:45b440cc$1{at}w3.nls.net...
>>     With Windows Vista or Windows Desktop Search or something else?  The
>>  Windows search components have no problem searching by name.
>>
>>  Rich
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>>    "Robert Comer"  wrote in message
>>  news:45b432c8$1{at}w3.nls.net...
>>    > You have a problem with indexing, not with search.
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>>    Actually it's search, it doesn't find what I want, indexed or not.
>> 99% of
>>    the time I'm not looking for a text string, I'm looking for a file
>> name,
>>    Search has a problem with that.
>>
>>    --
>>    Bob Comer
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