Emil said:
looking for a certain text while searching files does not seem to work like
it did in Win98. I was told it is a bug which should be fixed with SP1. But
I have SP1 and still no text within files will be found. Isn't there a patch
to fix this?
It only searches for text in a very limited number of types - they must
either have registry entries saying they are pure Text (.TXT and not
much else) or have known ;filters' to handle embedded format controls,
so that Search can avoid being confused by thinking those are characters
in 16 bit Unicode (eg .doc, .htm). You can add an additional type as
pure text provided you know that it *is* that, and that it does not
already have a 'PersistentHandler' in the registry. 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
d-click on this file to enter it into the registry.
This is for .log - modify that for other extensions, with care.
- - start
REGEDIT4
[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\.log\PersistentHandler]
@="{5e941d80-bf96-11cd-b579-08002b30bfeb}"
- - end
If you are having trouble with TXT files, then I suggest editing .log
above to .txt and merging it anyway - the entry may have got damaged