File System Searching With WinExplorer

== Using Vista SP2

I have never much liked the Windows Explorer. Its file system searching,
for example, is unintuitive, if it has any proper features at all.

For example:

I want to look for HTML files under the D drive or one of its
subdirectories that contain the text (character sequence) "linear".

Is that obvious in even the "Advanced Search" interface in WinExplorer
running under Vista?

Not that I can tell.

Responses as how to do this or or the use of alternatives to file system
search & management are appreciated.

As long as linear is in the text of the html file. It won't find linear if
it's in html code.

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"Five By Five" <> wrote in message
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> == Using Vista SP2
>
> I have never much liked the Windows Explorer. Its file system searching,
> for example, is unintuitive, if it has any proper features at all.
>
> For example:
>
> I want to look for HTML files under the D drive or one of its
> subdirectories that contain the text (character sequence) "linear".
>
> Is that obvious in even the "Advanced Search" interface in WinExplorer
> running under Vista?
>
> Not that I can tell.
>
> Responses as how to do this or or the use of alternatives to file system
> search & management are appreciated.
>
>
>

On Thu, 11 Feb 2010 23:51:44 -0800, Five By Five <> wrote:

>
>
>== Using Vista SP2
>
>I have never much liked the Windows Explorer. Its file system searching,
>for example, is unintuitive, if it has any proper features at all.
>
>For example:
>
>I want to look for HTML files under the D drive or one of its
>subdirectories that contain the text (character sequence) "linear".
>
>Is that obvious in even the "Advanced Search" interface in WinExplorer
>running under Vista?
>
>Not that I can tell.
>
>Responses as how to do this or or the use of alternatives to file system
>search & management are appreciated.
>
>

Look at Superfinder . http://fsl.sytes.net/ssearch.html

On Thu, 11 Feb 2010 23:51:44 -0800, Five By Five <> wrote:

>Responses as how to do this or or the use of alternatives to file system
>search & management are appreciated.

Download Agent Ransack: http://www.mythicsoft.com/agentransack/

Install it, get accurate searches, use an intuitive set of search
characters, have fun.

(Afterwards, disable windows indexing on your drives and disable the
windows indexing service).