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to: Robert Comer
from: Geo.
date: 2007-01-25 19:18:14
subject: Re: Search for file by name

From: "Geo." 

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?
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> 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.
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>  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.
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>  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.
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>    --
>    Bob Comer
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