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The poster formerly known as 'The Poster Formerly Known as Nina DiBoy'
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      05-19-2009
liketofindoutwhy wrote:
> I have been using for Vista for a while, and sometimes i just want to
> search for a file in the folder whose filename has the word "Stock" in
> it.
>
> So the search result says "No result found". Sometimes I even look
> at one file that says, "Stock news - Intel 2008-11-02.html" and the
> search result says "No found".
>
> Can this be solved? I noticed that I am already setting it to "index"
> this folder to make the search faster. Isn't this as simple as a year
> 1 computer science student homework? Just to find all files and show
> files whose filename contain a certain word?
>
>


Yes, the way to fix it is to install the 3rd party search utility of
your choice. Vista search is ****.

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      05-21-2009

I do miss the win2000/XP search ability.
I now use:

'Super Finder 1.5.3.0 | Download Free Softwares, Games & Files'
(http://freemedia.realgage.com/super-finder-1530.html) super finder



'Locate32 Web Site - Home'
(http://locate32.net/component/option...page/Itemid,1/) locate
32


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