Search is a disaster

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Jon Davis

Does anyone besides me find Vista's and MS Search for Office 2007's new
search functionality an absolute disaster for doing simple searches among
all files in a subdirectory based on filename or content?

The indexing makes search faster but at what cost? I feel like I'm writing a
software program just to get a simple search in a specific directory
accomplished.

Jon
 
I have been saying that from the first second I first layed eyes on that
disaster...

Vista and office and ie7 and wmp11 are all disasters.

Not that I liked ie6... but they could have done so much better for ie7...


the ribbon in office2007 is horrible,
the start menu, search, and windows explorer are totally stupid in vista..
(many other things too)
Ie7 toolbars are a big problem for many people
wmp11 had at least 10 big problems....

5 years development and millions of dollars for this trash?? YOU GOT TO BE
KIDDING!!!!
 
Yep.... I am sure you do! lol

I also Im sure you love the new vista start menu, and find ie7 very cool!

LOL!
 
I didn't mean to encourage the trolls. I'm talking only about Search.

Really, how can I search in a specific subdirectory in Vista? The "Search
In.." field is a drop-down box rather than a combobox. The only way I know
how to do a search in a specific subdirectory is to start at C:\ and wait
for an hour, or else go into a command prompt and search with "dir /s" from
my subdirectory. Of course that's only for filename searches, not content
searches.

What am I missing here? Surely this is a pebkac error ... ? Is Microsoft so
stupid as to eliminate specific-directory searching?

Jon
 
What trolls...

I am just agreeing with you that the search is bad and that microsoft is
stupid for making the search like that.

The last good search I have seen, was in windows98.. believe it or not!
 
Oh yeah.. scroll all the way down (I have a lot of network junk in the list)
and choose "Choose search locations..."

I'd found that before but forgot about it.

Still WAY too many mouse clicks and movements to accomplish the job when I
should have been allowed to just tab to the field and type it in without
using a mouse at all.

Jon
 
Jon

Go to Start/Search. In the Search dialog, select Advanced Search. In the Location drop down, you will see all of the choices there. You can select a drive or a specific folder.

--

Ronnie Vernon
Microsoft MVP
Windows Shell/User
 
Keystroke to remember:

(after Start menu -> search) ...
[tab] [tab] [space] [tab] [End] [tab]

Gah... better than a command prompt at least...

Jon
 
What trolls... I am just agreeing with you that the search is bad and that
microsoft is stupid for making the search like that.
Click to expand...

Vista is a beautiful OS and I'm happy about it for the most part.

I was just confounded by Search.

You're not going to accomplish anything by ranting about the whole OS or
about IE7. Way too broad of feedback for anyone to make use of.

Jon
 
Clearly you did not read my post. I was asking about subdirs, not drives.

I said,
Really, how can I search in a specific subdirectory in Vista? The
"Search In.." field is a drop-down box rather than a combobox.
Click to expand...

... Said combobox I describe here is the same combobox as what you were
directing me to use. The options in the list (except for the last option,
which I just re-discovered and re-posted about before your post) are
arbitary and only drives or network shares.

Jon
 
GAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!! D`:<

No semicolon-delimited list support!!? I have to click on Add.. for each
directory?! You've gotta be kidding me!!! ;a jf;s jf;alkds fjasd;fkjad;lskj

That's it, I'm firing up Visual Studio to write a classic search app. I've
had it!!

Jon


Jon Davis said:
Keystroke to remember:

(after Start menu -> search) ...
[tab] [tab] [space] [tab] [End] [tab]

Gah... better than a command prompt at least...

Jon


Jon Davis said:
I didn't mean to encourage the trolls. I'm talking only about Search.

Really, how can I search in a specific subdirectory in Vista? The "Search
In.." field is a drop-down box rather than a combobox. The only way I
know how to do a search in a specific subdirectory is to start at C:\ and
wait for an hour, or else go into a command prompt and search with "dir
/s" from my subdirectory. Of course that's only for filename searches,
not content searches.

What am I missing here? Surely this is a pebkac error ... ? Is Microsoft
so stupid as to eliminate specific-directory searching?

Jon
Click to expand...
Click to expand...
 
If you don't like it Vista or Office 2007, then simply uninstall it. No tone
is forcing you to use it. Is it that hard to decide? Or is your only
purpose here to rant?

Jan :)
MS MVP - Windows IE/OE [DTS/AumHa]
Smiles are meant to be shared,
that's why they're so contagious.
 
Is the only thing you have to do with your life each day is Troll the Vista
groups? Uninstall and move on, it is as simple as that. Or is your only
purpose here to rant?

Jan :)
MVP/Windows IE [DTS/AumHa]
Smiles are meant to be shared,
that's why they're so contagious.

Replies are posted only to the newsgroup for the benefit or other readers.
How to make a good newsgroup post:
http://www.dts-l.org/goodpost.htm
 
Actually I do.

Everything is laid out much better than XP and it makes more sense.

Love tabs, love all the new features in IE 7.

So far the only thing I've run into that I don't like is some people in the
Newsgroups.


Bill F.
 
Does anyone besides me find Vista's and MS Search for Office 2007's new
search functionality an absolute disaster for doing simple searches among
all files in a subdirectory based on filename or content?

The indexing makes search faster but at what cost? I feel like I'm writing
a software program just to get a simple search in a specific directory
accomplished.
Click to expand...

Jon, have you tried Agent Ransack as a search alternative? It's a free
utility. Works in XP and in Vista.
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=agent+ransack
 
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