vista lousy search feature

"You can use Vista's Search if you know any part of the filename - lik
DSC
or .jpg or .avi.

so how do i do this
i tired *.jpg and *.blen
but it just lists everything

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anon125

"anon125" <> wrote in message
news:...
>
> "You can use Vista's Search if you know any part of the filename - like
> DSCN
> or .jpg or .avi."
>
> so how do i do this?
> i tired *.jpg and *.blend
> but it just lists everything.

It's worse than lousy. I really sucks. Get Agent Ransack. It's free and
fast. If it's on your PC, AR will find it.

>
>
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> anon125

That's strange: I've just spent a few minutes playing around with Search on
my Vista machine and it seems to work fine.

I tried:
*.jpg
*.gif
*.docx
*.doc (which also finds all the .docx files, unfortunately)
*.avi, and they all find just what I'd expect.

I tried *.blend, but there are no files with that extension on my machine.

Although this doesn't help you, at least you know that it *can* work
properly.

SteveT

Steve Thackery wrote:
> That's strange: I've just spent a few minutes playing around with Search
> on my Vista machine and it seems to work fine.
>
> I tried:
> *.jpg
> *.gif
> *.docx
> *.doc (which also finds all the .docx files, unfortunately)
> *.avi, and they all find just what I'd expect.
>
> I tried *.blend, but there are no files with that extension on my machine.
>
> Although this doesn't help you, at least you know that it *can* work
> properly.
>
> SteveT

Same method seems to work fine for me also.

well mine just lists everything.... teh i see a slow green bar across
the top ( slow on a quad 64 machine??) then it lists the correct files
thank

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anon125

the #1 loser wrote:
> vistas search sucks even when its working the way it was designed...
> which is horrible!
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Translation: capin' crunch can't figure out how to use Vista's search so
he blames MS/Vista for his incompetence.

On Thu, 23 Oct 2008 10:31:39 -0500, anon125 <> wrote:
>well mine just lists everything.... teh i see a slow green bar acrosss
>the top ( slow on a quad 64 machine??) then it lists the correct files.

WDS works very well on Vista, but the search syntax has changed. For example:

To find all type of images, type kindictures
To find one type of file, type ext:jpg
To find two types of files, type extjpg OR png)
To exclude one type of image (jpeg), type kindictures -extjpg OR jpeg)
To find all types of videos, type kind:videos
To find file names containing the string "cat", type name:cat
To search file contents only for the complete word "cat", type contents:"cat"
And so on.

Basic WDS search syntax is shown in the Vista help screen "Tips for finding
files". Important details are found in the WDS 4 query guide:

http://www.microsoft.com/windows/pro.../advquery.mspx

Doug M. in NJ

thanks - at last what works

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anon125

one way that worked.
start box type basicsearch (no space)
this gives you a link to the advanced box.
click include non indexed.
then go to the TOP box NOT the advanced one and type say jpg. then it
found them.
yes i know it does not make sense but it worked on this hp computer


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anon125

news.microsoft.com wrote:
>
> "anon125" <> wrote in message
> news:...
>>
>> "You can use Vista's Search if you know any part of the filename - like
>> DSCN
>> or .jpg or .avi."
>>
>> so how do i do this?
>> i tired *.jpg and *.blend
>> but it just lists everything.
>
> It's worse than lousy. I really sucks. Get Agent Ransack. It's free and
> fast. If it's on your PC, AR will find it.
>
>>
>>
>> --
>> anon125
>

"I really sucks." Oh... too 'effin funny, dude.

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