search is broken

  • Thread starter Thread starter Nathan Coast
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Nathan Coast

Hi,

File system searching is broken. when looking for files
containing a string, windows repeatedly finds no files. I
know there are files containing the strings, I created
them to test the search. This used to work. Is there any
way to reinstall / reset the searching function?

Alternatively I could install something that works like
Cygwin or linux.

cheers
 
Nathan-

You are encountering a well known bug. The fix is a vbs script named:

xp_fix_search_error.vbs

Find it at:

www.dougknox.com

Doug is an MS support guy sometimes watching this newsgroup.

Steve
 
Actually, I'm not MS Support, Steve. Just a volunteer here, like most of
the other folks :)<<

Oh, interesting! I didn't know.

S
 
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