Desktop Search and special characters

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doraz

Hi, I need to search files or folders that have $ or § or # in the name
if I put a $ in the search box, I get near all the files in my hd... even if
they doesn't contain that char...
I use Vista (...), in XP with standard search (NOT desktop search) the
results were fine...
Any advice?!
thanks in advance
 
[...snip...]
I have files on my drive for my Vista that contains the special
character "{" (without quotes obviously). But for those of you that
know about vista you simply cannot do a start/search for that or any
other special characters because its considered a wildcard.

So how do WE fix this and find the files we need to find? Of course
the fella above me probably got his answer by now - but I need one as
well.
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Kristi,

Actually, the problem is a little different. Search is now word-based,
not character based. Brackets are considered punctuation by Search, not
wild cards. To get meaningful results, queries that contain punctuation
must also contain words, a phrase, or a wild card. For example, If I
search on this: [*] or this: {*} I get a bunch of files that have a phrase
in their file name within brackets, just as I would expect. So give that
a try.

Doug M. in NJ
 
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