nlhtml.dll limiting searches too much!

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Greg

If you create a file like

c:\test.html

with the content of "winxp" and do a file search
for "winxp" you will get a hit. IF you change the
contents to "<winxp" you will not get a hit. There are
other odd varients I've run across. Behavior like this is
really making XP searches useless on .html files.

Any ideas? Very dumb having to use a Win2K pc just to do
simple searches!!!!

Greg
 
Greg said:
with the content of "winxp" and do a file search
for "winxp" you will get a hit. IF you change the
contents to "<winxp" you will not get a hit. There are
other odd varients I've run across. Behavior like this is
really making XP searches useless on .html files.
Click to expand...

Search in XP either needs the files to be known to be pure text, or that
there are 'filters' to take out internal formatting so that this does
not get confused with Unicode. The one for HTML removes any html tags,
and a leading < will be interpreted as starting a tag Provided you
don't mind having a confusion with hits happening in tags (And of course
you may be wanting to search *for* them) you can put them on the 'pure
text' list. Make the following, after - - start and before - - end into
a file by cut/paste to NotePad. Make sure there is a blank line at the
end. Save as "Patch.reg" then right-click on this file and take Merge to
enter it into the registry.

- - start
REGEDIT4

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\.htm\PersistentHandler]
@="{5e941d80-bf96-11cd-b579-08002b30bfeb}"

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\.html\PersistentHandler]
@="{5e941d80-bf96-11cd-b579-08002b30bfeb}"


- - end
 
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