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Joe Grover
I've been using Vista for about a year now on my machine at work, and while
I've never had any technical problems, there is one thing that I simply am
unable to overcome, and it's the reason I never boot into my Vista partition
at home, and that's the Search feature. I'm hoping someone can help me out
with this.
In previous versions of Windows, I could tell the Search tool to look only
ro Excel documents (*.xls) for any occurrance of a particular string (like a
hardware MAC address or a phone number). This was quick and efficient.
In Vista, I can only type in the string I want it to find, and it will
search everything. It isn't that this takes an abnormal amount of time, my
problem is that it isn't finding what I'm looking for every time. Here's a
recent example:
I'm a network administrator, and am in the process of deploying a new file
server at a regional office. The old server name is for example CORP-FP1,
and the new one is CORP-LAN-FP1.
I open up our netlogon share (\\domain\netlogon) to view all the logon
scripts. In XP I could search *.bat for CORP-FP1 and get a list of all of
the logon scripts that have a reference to that server. If I enter CORP-FP1
into the Search box in Vista I get 6 results--unfortunately there are
actually 32 files in that folder that contain this string. If I go to the
domain controller itself (Windows Server 2003), open up \\domain\netlogon,
copy the scripts into a folder on the desktop and then use the 2003 search
tool to look for CORP-FP1 all the logon scripts and batch commands are
displayed.
What are my options? I have no problems with Vista whatsoever except for
this Search tool, which I'm sure has all kinds of nice things over older
versions, but it seems to me there is a great deal lost in it as well. Any
suggestions are appreciated.
Joe
I've never had any technical problems, there is one thing that I simply am
unable to overcome, and it's the reason I never boot into my Vista partition
at home, and that's the Search feature. I'm hoping someone can help me out
with this.
In previous versions of Windows, I could tell the Search tool to look only
ro Excel documents (*.xls) for any occurrance of a particular string (like a
hardware MAC address or a phone number). This was quick and efficient.
In Vista, I can only type in the string I want it to find, and it will
search everything. It isn't that this takes an abnormal amount of time, my
problem is that it isn't finding what I'm looking for every time. Here's a
recent example:
I'm a network administrator, and am in the process of deploying a new file
server at a regional office. The old server name is for example CORP-FP1,
and the new one is CORP-LAN-FP1.
I open up our netlogon share (\\domain\netlogon) to view all the logon
scripts. In XP I could search *.bat for CORP-FP1 and get a list of all of
the logon scripts that have a reference to that server. If I enter CORP-FP1
into the Search box in Vista I get 6 results--unfortunately there are
actually 32 files in that folder that contain this string. If I go to the
domain controller itself (Windows Server 2003), open up \\domain\netlogon,
copy the scripts into a folder on the desktop and then use the 2003 search
tool to look for CORP-FP1 all the logon scripts and batch commands are
displayed.
What are my options? I have no problems with Vista whatsoever except for
this Search tool, which I'm sure has all kinds of nice things over older
versions, but it seems to me there is a great deal lost in it as well. Any
suggestions are appreciated.
Joe